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- My trip to San Diego
Mostly, I’ve been listening to Sirius XM as we drove down the coast from Seattle to San Diego. Not that satellite radio is so much better than broadcast. I just like to be able to count on having my classical, jazz, and BBC World Service and NPR channels everywhere. As you can see, I don’t [...]
- I get it now.
Sirius 72, the “Pure Jazz” channel, is an oldies station. Sometimes it takes a while to break the radio code, even if you’re an old radio guy. Matt Abramowitz, the Sirius jazz programmer, told me they’re merely playing the “best” cuts so casual Sirius channel surfers will get a truly great experience if they try [...]
- A Sirius Chat
A couple of weeks ago I got to talk by phone with the programmer who runs Pure Jazz 72, Sirius Satellite Radio’s 24-hour jazz station that, as the name implies, plays classic mainstream modern jazz. Jazz, traditionally identified as America’s only native artform (an assertion that might attract argument from certain other tribes), remains a [...]
- 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, [...]
- Review: Sirius Satellite Radio
This is my first review of Sirius. I’ve had an account for about five months. Though I spent a good part of my life in radio, and all of it thinking about and/or listening to radio, I didn’t acquire a satellite radio until my daughter bought me one for Christmas 2006. We were busy moving [...]
