The Stream Smooth Jazz

Fun feature shows on weekdays always. Today we've got:
90s at Noon - Classic trax from Lee Ritenour, Rick Braun, The Rippingtons, Keiko Matsui and more
Voices - 3pm: Michael Franks, Maysa, Benoit/Freeman project with Kenny Loggins, and another cool song from Al Jarreau
New Music Hour - 8pm: Lots of new album trax: Vincent Ingala Reza Khan, Kayla Waters, Adam Omar Hawley, Nathan Mitchell and some of the latest singles too
All times are EDT
come listen to the station that colors outside the lines

The Stream Smooth Jazz – The New Sound of Smooth Jazz Welcome to the new sound of smooth… The Stream brings you The NEW Sound Of Smooth Jazz scroll down, press play hear the difference feel the difference New Music Hour - 9am & 8pm EDT90's at noon weekdays 12noon EDT New Music Playlist Here’s what’s newCheck out This Month’s Feature Album: Rand...

We're going to start posting playlists featuring the songs that define us. A lot of these songs are a little more adventurous than the the corporate version of the format allows. I originally wanted to keep them at 1 hour, but you know how that goes..
Playlist 1 is up on Spotify. Apple link to follow. Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1SZPVt0pYabenHBHgk16oS?si=fb9b1a6c161844b9

The Stream playlist 1 The Stream playlist 1 · Playlist · 16 songs

Traditional radio left contemporary/smooth jazz fans settling for less, or even nothing. Streaming is the way to hear the good stuff now. So we are The Stream.

When contemporary jazz formats started showing up on the radio in the late 70s people loved the chance to hear this new exciting adult oriented music. Then the Telcom act of 1995 took away the limits on how many stations a company could own and big media corporations quickly bought hundreds of stations. These large groups homogenized the sound of their stations and programming shifted from love of music to fear of music - from sharing and creating excitement about music to protecting audiences from anything that was "unfamiliar." The research method the new smooth jazz stations used was biased toward familiar songs so stations put original instrumentals on the backburner as the format evolved (de-evolved) into a mix of pop crossovers and instrumental covers of pop songs.

That shift into a modern version of the old time background music format left listeners bewildered. In conversations, on the request lines at radio stations, and on social media you have asked for more smooth jazz, more jazzy vocals, more classic tracks and a chance to hear new music as it comes out. You're not afraid of soloing, long songs, energy, funky horn sections, "screaming guitars," or exciting new music. You want more than a small selection of pleasantly unobtrusive songs playing repeatedly. You never lost your sense of adventure, you want to get excited over music again. Yes it can be smooth and relaxing, but it can also be exciting and uplfiting. Time to flip the switch from fear of music to the joy of music - that's why we call it The New Sound of Smooth.