KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

KMHD Jazz Radio is celebrating its 40th year on the air this month. KMHD is the top-rated jazz station in the nation at a time when full-time jazz radio stations are rare. It has been a staple of the ...

The early development of radio was distinctly not American. Sharing a common purpose with the early drums of Africa and Asia, its purpose was strategic and tactical communication and signaling, and ...

Jazz is coming back to Northeast Ohio airwaves in a big way. Ideastream Public Media on Feb. 26 is launching the area’s first and only full-time jazz channel, JazzNEO. Among the many people champing ...

I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Vinyl records are back in a big way—and nowhere is their revival more celebrated than in jazz. For decades, jazz fans cherished the ritual of lowering the ...

At 92 years old, Ed Love is still on the air. The jazz radio afficionado has hosted “Destination Jazz: The Ed Love Program” on WDET since 1983 and worked in the radio industry for years before that.

Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

Rusty Hassan’s career in Washington, D.C., jazz radio spans four stations and more than five decades. His recounting of his times on air and the connections he made in the city’s jazz community are ...

An unassuming single-story brick building on the campus of University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne is the source of the Delmarva Peninsula's only traditional jazz radio station — WESM 91 ...

Stacks of jazz CD’s surround radio host Bob Naujoks records his second to last show “Gentle Jazz with Bob Naujoks” at KCCK Radio at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday, June ...

The author is membership program director of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. NFCB commentaries are featured regularly at www.radioworld.com. One of my favorite memories as a student ...