Blue Note Radio Is Back

[JSngry]

This just in from the PR geniuses at BN:

For your listening pleasure, we are pleased to announce the return of Blue Note Radio. Since our original version of Blue Note Radio became extinct over one year ago, we have seen a flood of emails, consumer inquiries and requests to bring Blue Note Radio back online. It had always been our goal to revive Blue Note Radio, but it had to be better than it was. A new Blue Note Radio would need to be easy to use, with more features and customization tools and of course great sound. All of this and more has been achieved with our new Blue Note Radio.

With a new look, a new technology partner and new functionality Blue Note Radio delivers free streaming audio of your favorite Blue Note tunes. Classic and current Blue Note artists and songs are represented here. Listeners can choose high or low bandwidth, select artists and songs to hear more often, and can easily purchase and learn more about music heard on Blue Note Radio. Once signed in to Blue Note Radio, you can even listen from more than one computer. Blue Note Radio is only available in the US to PC users.

Blue Note Radio sounds great at home or at work. Sign up is free and easy and Blue Note Radio is accessible from every page on the Blue Note web site.

Sign in, Listen & Enjoy: http://www.BlueNote.com/Radio

Truthfully, I dug the old BN radio. It was like any radio (a surrender of your listening choices to somebody else), only safer, because they covered the whole catalog, old and new (and the whole catalog has come to hold so many labels besides the REAL BN that the variety quotient trended favorable).

Anyway, just thought I'd pass this along in case anybody was interested.

Chow,

Gym

[Leeway]

Quote: "Since our original version of Blue Note Radio became extinct over one year ago, we have seen a flood of emails, consumer inquiries and requests to bring Blue Note Radio back online."

Not through the BNBB however

[Jazzmoose]

No shit? Blue Note had their own bulletin board?

[Eric]

Have it on now and they are playing a new song off the upcoming Terrance Blanchard album (Footprints). Perhaps I should have typed Blandchard - very much of a smoothy jazz feel to it. Too bad ... I was looking forward to this one.

Eric

Edited July 2, 2003 by Eric

[RDK]

Yeah, the first few tracks i heard were pretty shitty, but now they're play "Lover" off of Cool Struttin' so it can't be all bad!

[Eric]

I think the way to go is to select "all classics". I would like to hear the current stuff (Osby et al), but can't deal with the endless crap-ola.

Eric

[Eric]

And in classic BN Big Brother form, you are only allowed to "skip" 6 songs per hour. Thanks for protecting me.

Eric

[Big Wheel]

Yeah, that feature is pretty stupid, although I'll bet that you could work around it by closing and restarting the player. Also, even with the "All Classics" option selected nothing changed--I was still hearing Pat Martino and Kurt Elling.

Does anyone know how to get the thing to work on Opera?

[chris olivarez]

Is the music on the thing constantly changing or is it like one long annoying tape loop?

[RDK]

Not only does it change, but I think it actually tailors itself to your tastes if you choose to click the + or - buttons on artist and songs. I should have it programmed to my liking in a week or so...

[Peter Johnson]

Hellyeah--almost a week with the new Blue Note Radio and not one single repeat!!!

This really is a killer setup. I've customized the hell out of it so far, and it's throwing me deep cuts from Shorter, Herbie, Jackie Mac, Mogie, etc. etc. etc. Just what I want to hear! Only the occasional Norah thrown in for good measure.

PJ *listening to Maiden Voyage as I type this*

[alankin]

Have it on now and they are playing a new song off the upcoming Terrance Blanchard album (Footprints). Perhaps I should have typed Blandchard - very much of a smoothy jazz feel to it. Too bad ... I was looking forward to this one.

The album's now called Bounce, although from what you say, it might not have much of one...