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Update on "Smooth Jazz" (former Mpls. classic rock station)
The station is actually doing very well, I am hearing it in restaurants,
on telephone holds, etc. I listen to it quite a bit myself. I like a lot of what they are playing (though a bit too much of the saxophone instrumentals). The sound quality really is much better than most of what I hear on radio as Bob (Clearchannel program director) promised. I asked him what they did and if he really thought smooth jazz was the proper label for the format. I don't think he would mind me sharing this info: "The vocals and covers are there to serve as points of access or familiarity for the many people who come into the format fresh - for whom a steady diet of only instrumentals would prove too adventuresome. It's been proven repeatedly across the country in stations like this one that a careful combination of vocals and instrumental is most successful." "We backed off the compression (multi-band!) That's the sound trick." -Rob |
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Update on "Smooth Jazz" (former Mpls. classic rock station)
Rob Adelman wrote:
[...] "The vocals and covers are there to serve as points of access or familiarity for the many people who come into the format fresh - for whom a steady diet of only instrumentals would prove too adventuresome...." These are some of the least adventuresome listeners in creation. This is the music that stole bin space, air time, stage time, and column inches from every honest jazz endeavor, simply by comandeering the word "jazz". Even Kind Of Blue is almost too much for them. I seethe. Luke |
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Update on "Smooth Jazz" (former Mpls. classic rock station)
Luke Kaven wrote in message . ..
These are some of the least adventuresome listeners in creation. This is the music that stole bin space, air time, stage time, and column inches from every honest jazz endeavor, simply by comandeering the word "jazz". Even Kind Of Blue is almost too much for them. I seethe. Luke "Smooth Jazz" is about a close to Jazz as George Bush's IQ is to Albert Einstein's.... I seethe. I vomit uncontrollably.... bob |
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Update on "Smooth Jazz" (former Mpls. classic rock station)
EggHd wrote: he mix they play is actually pretty good (i.m.o.), just very little real jazz. They are getting you hooked! Turn away from the light! Maybe they do know their upper demo audience? I am a channel flipper though. And a lot of the mix isn't so good. Way to shmaltzy. How many instrumental saxaphone songs can one take? |
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Update on "Smooth Jazz" (former Mpls. classic rock station)
How many instrumental saxaphone songs can one take?
Exactly. --------------------------------------- "I know enough to know I don't know enough" |
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Update on "Smooth Jazz" (former Mpls. classic rock station)
Rob Adelman wrote:
EggHd wrote: he mix they play is actually pretty good (i.m.o.), just very little real jazz. They are getting you hooked! Turn away from the light! Maybe they do know their upper demo audience? I am a channel flipper though. And a lot of the mix isn't so good. Way to shmaltzy. How many instrumental saxaphone songs can one take? If the saxophonist is Charlie Parker, an infinite number. If the saxophonist is Dave Koz, exactly zero. |
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Update on "Smooth Jazz" (former Mpls. classic rock station)
I get all the instrumental sax music I need on the Weather Channel.
LOL!!!!!!!!! --------------------------------------- "I know enough to know I don't know enough" |
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Update on "Smooth Jazz" (former Mpls. classic rock station)
You're not kidding. Our favorite thing in college was to leave the weather
channel on for whomever was passed out on the couch that morning - local on the eights had some AWFUL music - and led to very strange dreams when the hungover house guest awoke to tell of them.... -g Don Cooper wrote in : Rob Adelman wrote: I am a channel flipper though. And a lot of the mix isn't so good. Way to shmaltzy. How many instrumental saxaphone songs can one take? I get all the instrumental sax music I need on the Weather Channel. Don |
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