AccuJazz

Hey Mr. Impossible, Thanks again for the interest. I'm familiar with the concept of the Squeezebox, but I've never actually used one myself and don't know how to set it up. I think you're on your own there. You sure found the Easter Eggs with that complete channel list! Though we make that page available to the public, very few people actually get to the stations from there, preferring instead to listen from the AccuRadio.com homepage, AccuRadio.com/jazz, or AccuJazz.com, which only have 11 jazz channels listed. The other 25 or so are still in development, ready to go live very soon (but not all of them). So, start listening to some of the non-public ones and let me know what you think -- I've poured about 6 months of work in to creating them, everything from composer channels for Ellington, Monk, and Bird/Diz to an Avant-Garde channel, to splinters of the New School channel called "Modern Mainstream" and "Cutting Edge." You'll notice there's plenty more to check out, too. Best of luck getting AccuRadio configured on your squeezebox. Thanks, Lucas P.S. Yes, as you likely have noticed, we're a Chicago-based company, and Chicago has such a rich legacy of experimentation in jazz that I like to pay homage to that in our programming. Roscoe Mitchell's "Sound" is an enduring hallmark of the spirit of Chicago's creativity in jazz. He's playing at the fest this weekend, if any of you can make it!

Thanks for the interest! At first I wasn't sure myself, but after a little poking around I found that there are indeed URLs for the individual stations. The best way I know to find them is to open a subchannel in internet explorer and look at the top of the window where you'll see a long, complex-looking url that you can then copy and paste into a browser. If this doesn't work for you, let me know. Thanks again! -Lucas

In honor of the upcoming 30th edition of the Chicago Jazz Festival, and to help Midwestern jazz fans prepare for the event, Chicago-based multichannel Internet radio station AccuRadio has launched a 24-hour-a-day radio station devoted exclusively to the music of the jazz artists scheduled to perform at the event. AccuRadio is one of the world's leading Internet radio brands, featuring over 320 (!) customizable channels of rock, pop, jazz, classical, Broadway, blues, Celtic, world music, and more. It attracts a global audience of hundreds of thousands of listeners per month and recently won the 2008 "People's Voice" Webby Award for Best Radio in the prestigious global competition. AccuRadio's selection of jazz channels includes over a dozen "subchannels" based on style, period, and instrument, but the Chicago Jazz Festival channel will be its first built around a single event. The new jazz channel, with hundreds of songs on its playlist, will feature music by festival headliners Sonny Rollins, Kenny Burrell, Eddie Palmieri and Ornette Coleman as well as the other artists scheduled to play. The new channel reflects the local bent of the festival's program with much great music by Ari Brown, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker and others. As with all AccuRadio channels, the Chicago Jazz Festival 2008 channel will be customizable, allowing users to pause songs, skip songs, and even "deselect" the artists they don't want to hear. "If some listeners prefer their jazz more straight-ahead or more avant-garde, or more local and less big-name, then they can simply click the names of the artists they don't like and get a stream that's customized to their tastes," said AccuRadio jazz programmer Lucas Gillan, himself a local jazz musician and teacher. The city's longest-running lakefront music festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival features local, national and international performers on several stages in Grant Park. It opens Thursday night, August 28th, with Sonny Rollins performing in the Pritzker Pavillion. "We're hoping this channel will remind AccuRadio's jazz listeners from around the Midwest to come to Chicago this weekend," Gillan said. AccuRadio's Chicago Jazz Festival 2008 channel will remain available online until at least September 30th -- and even longer if there is popular demand for it, Gillan noted. AccuRadio is a free website available at www.accuradio.com. It was launched in 2004 by long-time Chicago radio professional Kurt Hanson (who is also publisher of "RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter," published daily at www.kurthanson.com) and a team led by VP/Programming Paul Maloney and VP/Technology Ralph Sledge.