{"id":850,"date":"2011-05-20T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/05\/west-coast-jazz-on-the-internet.html"},"modified":"2011-05-20T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:48:00","slug":"west-coast-jazz-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/05\/west-coast-jazz-on-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"West Coast jazz on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR a jazz fan, Internet radio can be like going to one of those really bad mall food courts: Despite the superficial variety, much of what&#8217;s served is awfully gooey. There are several &#8220;smooth&#8221; jazz stations for every one that plays real music. (This reflects, surely, the state of today&#8217;s marketplace.) Commercial jazz radio us is not much better.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dlT-R4ojqrM\/Tdbhm9gnJUI\/AAAAAAAABHo\/39ikwwVYNHM\/s1600\/chet.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dlT-R4ojqrM\/Tdbhm9gnJUI\/AAAAAAAABHo\/39ikwwVYNHM\/s320\/chet.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><br \/>But from an airy modernist house in Palm Springs, a former IT manager from Boston runs a great little station, dedicated to the heyday of West Coast jazz, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forevercool.us\/\">Forever Cool<\/a>. (You can also get it through iTunes.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondact.com\/2011\/05\/all-that-internet-jazz\/\">HERE<\/a> is my piece on Keith Roberts and his station, which I highly recommend. More on it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR a jazz fan, Internet radio can be like going to one of those really bad mall food courts: Despite the superficial variety, much of what&#8217;s served is awfully gooey. There are several &#8220;smooth&#8221; jazz stations for every one that plays real music. (This reflects, surely, the state of today&#8217;s marketplace.) Commercial jazz radio us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,42,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-desert","7":"category-jazz","8":"category-west-coast","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}