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(Full Suite) 2PM-4PM
(Mini Suite) Random

The Jazz Hang Suite features amazing music every day, presenting old Jazz songs alongside the new. If you enjoy easy listening and relaxing to the sounds of Jazz than The Jazz Hang Suite is designed for your listening pleasure. The program is perfect for busy day listening to help you feel relaxed, for that romantic evening with a special someone or for venue background music. Whatever your pleasure we are here to please. Broadcasted daily with our Full Suite (two hours) or the Mini Suite (one hour).

JAZZ MUSIC FACT

African-American musical traditions mixed with others and gradually jazz emerged from a blend of ragtime, marches, blues, and other kinds of music. At first jazz was mostly for dancing. (In later years, people would sit and listen to it.) After the first recordings of jazz were made in 1917, the music spread widely and developed rapidly. The evolution of jazz was led by a series of brilliant musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington (listen to Ellington in Duke’s Music Class), Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. Jazz developed a series of different styles including traditional jazz, swing (listen, for example, to Benny Carter, who got his start in swing music, in Benny’s Music Class) bebop, cool jazz, and jazz-rock, among others. At the same time, jazz spread from the United States to many parts of the world, and today jazz musicians–and jazz festivals–can be found in dozens of nations. Jazz is one of the United States greatest exports to the world.

1. Miles Davis
2. Herbie Hancock
3. Bob James
4. Roy Ayers
5. Tom Browne
6. Donald Byrd
7. Grover Washington, Jr.
8. George Benson
9. Quincy Jones
10. Crusaders