Easy Jazz FM

02/19/2025

It's a tiny spot in the North Atlantic Ocean, but somehow, the historic and beautiful town of Ponta Delgada in the archipelago of Portugal (17,000 residents) found us. Welcome aboard the Easy Jazz FM family of worlwide listeners.

02/19/2025

NUMBER 1 ON TUNEIN SEARCH: Our flagship station, Easy Jazz FM, has been on the TuneIn radio directory - one of the largest radio directories in the world. But we were puzzled by the low number of listeners on TuneIn. Until today, when we learned from a listener that Easy Jazz FM wasn't showing up in the list of jazz stations on TuneIn. A search of "jazz" on the site didn't find us. That changed tonight. After a lot of back-and-fourth with TuneIn programmers, we're now on the list of jazz stations. We also now appear in any search for "jazz". In fact, not only do we appear, we're number one in the list! Just in the past 3 hours, the number of listeners to Easy Jazz FM on TuneIn has tripled!

02/18/2025

Take a break from all the politics, tension, and insanity of this world. Regain balance and a sense of calm with Easy Jazz FM! Now available in 40 countries around the world.

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02/18/2025

6 DAYS AND COUNTING: Some of our listeners enjoy the programming so much, they just leave us on 24/7. Such is the case with this listener in Saskatoon, Canada - tuned in now for 6 days. The station is Classic Jazz FM, with a playlist that is 100% jazz vocalists, many from the old days, but also, a good sprinkling of today's artists including Matt Dusk, Halie Loren, JC Sol, Michael Bublé, Heather Christine, June Garber, Laila Biali and Diana Krall.

02/18/2025

UPDATES: Our legendary jazz station, Classic Jazz FM (CJFM), is now on the Live365 network as we make a move to expand listenership for that station. CJFM is popular in Canada, Japan and Europe, and we're hoping Live365 will give us a boost among US listeners. In other news, we've unfortunately had to cancel our ROKU TV channel, Easy Jazz TV. It was a fun project while it lasted - but every project we undertake provides great learning opportunities, and Easy Jazz TV was no exception. The funds we had used to support the TV channel have now been redirected to the Classic Jazz FM expansion - as we focus on what's working, while letting go of what's not.

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02/15/2025

NEW LISTENERS: Since we expanded our licensing last week to 40 countries worldwide, Easy Jazz FM is gaining new listeners. This morning (Saturday, February 15, 2025), we're being heard in Denmark, Germany and Lithuania. Yesterday - new fans came on board from Mexico, Israel, Ireland, New Zealand, Italy, Bulgaria and Belgium. Great appreciation and gratitude from us to all of our listeners, now throughout the world!

02/14/2025

What could be more romantic than listening to Easy Jazz FM for Valentine's Day? Now available in 40 countries and territories around the world! https://easyjazz.fm

02/14/2025

FACEBOOK? Is anyone else seeing this bizarre message on their page? It appeared on our page this morning and think it may be visible only to us as the page owner. A quick google search revealed the message is appearing on many other Facebook accounts also. When the "confirm" button is clicked, nothing happens. No information from Facebook itself. We live in very strange times!

02/13/2025

BIG NEWS FOR UK SONOS LISTENERS: Many listeners of Easy Jazz FM in the UK had been listening to us through TuneIn and SONOS. But a year ago, TuneIn deleted us after we switched from Live365 to having our own licensing. Why did we get cancelled? It's because we neglected to purchase all of the required UK copyright licensing. We had some, but not all. So we set about getting the additional licensing needed but discovered this was not easy! The other licensing body (PPL UK) is set up mainly for stations based in the UK and not for those located outside the UK. But after a lot of back and fourth, we succeeded in getting the PPL licensing. It then took a few more weeks for PPL and TuneIn to communicate with each other. But today (Feb 13, 2025), we've been informed by TuneIn that we're back on, so UK listeners are now able to enjoy Easy Jazz FM through SONOS / TuneIn. Persistence pays off!

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02/11/2025

EASY JAZZ FM UPDATE: For the past 6 months, we've been trying to acquire licensing so that our flagship station, Easy Jazz FM, can be heard beyond the United States, Canada and the UK. We are pleased to announce that we now have an agreement in place to broadcast legally to another 37 countries around the globe. These include Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. We'll report back later on how many of these countries are tuning in. Easy Jazz FM is now an international station!

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02/08/2025

JAZZ PEOPLE ARE THE GREATEST: Lately, we've been hearing from a lot of great independent jazz musicians, asking us to play their latest singles and albums. Some of these artists are well known and accomplished. Yet, the vast majority are far from pretentious. Instead, they are authentic, approachable, down to earth and downright nice people! It's a pleasure for us to feature their music on our five radio stations, to give them the exposure they deserve. It's an honor to work with these amazing, talented and dedicated professionals.

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02/08/2025

02/06/2025

BLINDNESS NEVER STOPPED HER: She is blind, her mother died when she was 13, she has perfect pitch memory, and as a child, would sing in a closet. Who is she? Jazz singer Diane Schuur of Tacoma, Washington is among the artists profiled on Monday's "The A List with John Armato" on Easy Jazz FM (Feb 10 at 8pm Pacific).

Diane learned to play piano by ear, and when she was 15, her father took her to Lake Tahoe to audition for a job as a lounge singer at Harrah's Hotel and Casino. She got the job but couldn't take it because her dad was too busy with his own job to drive her. But later, in 1975 at age 22, Diane went backstage to sing for bandleader Ed Shaughnessy who could not believe what he was hearing. In his words: "My hair stood on end!" Ed hired Diane to be the vocalist in his band.

Later, famous sax player Stan Getz became a mentor to Diane - believing in her, and teaching her to slow down her singing. In her words: "He taught me that less is more".

In the 1980s, Getz arranged for Diane to perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and to join him for a show at the White House. Following the performance, First Lady Nancy Reagan rushed up to Diane and gave her a big hug. Mrs. Reagan knew talent when she heard it!

Diane's career took off from there with recordings on the Billboard jazz charts, winning Grammy Awards, appearing 11 times with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, and performing with Frank Sinatra.

In 1996, Diane was on Sesame Street and explained to muppet "Elmo" that as a blind person, she is able to use her other senses to navigate the world.

Last year, Diane Schuur, now 71 years old, had stopped performing. She has a condition known as "Ménière's disease" which affects the inner ear - causing horrible episodes of vertigo, hearing loss, and ringing in the ears. There is no cure.

PICTURED: Diane Schuur in 1998. (Credit: By John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA - Diane Schuur, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75607746)

02/05/2025

IT'S HOT: Hot Jazz FM features great upbeat jazz music from the Funky Jazz Band, Cory Wong, Dinner Party, DJ Lopo, Dave Stryker, Bill McGee, Chillaxonic, CTK, Four80East, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Herbie Mann and many others. Need to raise your mood? Do it with hotjazz.fm !

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02/04/2025

REMEMBERING CLARK: Trumpeter Clark Terry from St. Louis was a jazz pioneer whose career lasted over 70 years. He performed with other greats including Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones and Oscar Peterson. Clark even played with "The Tonight Show Band" from 1962 to 1972 becoming the first African American to be a regular musician on network TV. Clark knew he was a trailblazer, remarking that he couldn't "have a speck" on his trousers or have a "dirty shirt." He heavily influenced Miles Davis, and in fact, had been a mentor to Davis and taught Davis a thing or two about jazz trumpet playing. (Clark would later play the flugelhorn). In later years, Clark staged his own jazz festivals and set up "jazz camps" for young people. Those who knew him say he loved helping new, up and coming artists, had a great sense of humor, an easygoing sense of playfulness - and he didn't worry about much (the key to a long life?). Clark Terry lived to age 94, dying in 2015. But he may have lived longer if it wasn't for a case of advanced diabetes. Listen to this great musician on West Coast Jazz Radio.

PICTURED: Clark Terry at the Monterey, California Jazz Festival in 1981. Credit: Brian McMillen (CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)

01/26/2025

ONLY ON WEST COAST JAZZ RADIO: Tune in every night at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific to West Coast Jazz Radio for 6 hours of uninterrupted slow jazz - the perfect way to end a busy day. https://westcoastjazzradio.com

01/26/2025

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