go here
www.thegrooveboutique.com

Groove Boutique is a "smooth jazz mix show" and it really looks cool. I have been reading about this in the radio trades and he has a website up now..as the website explains

"Hosted by d.j. Rafe Gomez, The Groove Boutique™ combines the world's most exciting rhythmic jazz genres, including:
•> 70s soul jazz
•> 80s jazz-funk
•> 90s acid jazz
•> Today's electrojazz, house jazz, and uptempo smooth jazz

The result is an exhilarating listening experience that melds vibrant jazz musicianship with the funky thump of the dancefloor."

The website has playlists and mixes you can listen too. Overall its too hip for the room in terms of becoming a fulltime format..he brings in a lot of eclectic elements..but it could contribute significantly to the awareness that this music does not have to "grey out"! Its flagship station, believe it or not, is WQCD in New York..the station that thinks the Chi Lites and Lou Rawls should anchor a smooth jazz playlist in 2003 :rolleyes:

Shannon, I like this...we need more shows like this....Thanks!

AG & V,
Cabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbage
newbmastergeneral

Hey Folks,

You really need to look over these playlists......this is some great stuff.....you MUST check it out.

AG & V,
Cabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbage
newbmastergeneral

Hey Folks,
This is what a playlist should be:

Groove Boutique Playlists

Look who is included (I regularly listened to these artists before discovering Groove Boutique):

Four 80 East
Chris Standring
Down To The Bone
Soundscape UK
Duncan Millar
Duboniks
Soft Sugar
Reuben Wilson
Voodoo Village
Chris Bangs Project

and "hipper-than-radio-tracs" from:

David Sanborn
Bob Baldwin
Brian Culbertson
Chuck Loeb
Euge Groove

If only regular SJ radio could be closer to this.............

AG & V,
Cabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbage
noob

The only thing is that they are having to get more conservative in an effort to get more major market stations on board. I guess it was too much to hope the tail might wag the dog a little more into a better direction. But it's still nowhere near as conservative as SJ radio.