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- Review: Pure Jazz, Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius channel 72 is a good jazz station. It may be a great one. Radio and jazz haven’t made it together in the U.S., mostly. Jazz is an acquired taste, like avocados, or brussel sprouts, oysters. It asks more of its listener, more than classical music does, though its premise is simple: take a song, [...]
- Talk. Who’s listening?
I dipped an ear into syndicated radio talk the other day, and almost lost a lobe. Bill O’Reilly, then Michael Savage. I knew I’d find it toxic. Should have known better. But I feel responsible to say something rational about it. Talk radio, I mean. See, most of the well-known talkers outside the big-big cities [...]
