About the project
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“Czech Radio Jazz” is a new jazz website produced by Czech Radio. Our aim is to provide quality and up-to-date jazz news. Our target group: a listener, 25-60 years old, with a pronounced jazz flair, active jazz concerts visitor with higher-than-average interest in culture.
Besides the actual jazz news you can find here some tips for interesting jazz concerts and records, periodically set up contests, as well as radio program archive. The content is produced mainly by the Czech Radio 3 – Vltava journalists.
Euro Jazz
Part of the web page is a continuous 24 / 7 jazz webcast (internet radio) called Euro Jazz. This project is entirely digital (broadcasting online only) with European focus in particular, which makes it quite unique and well recognizable in the vast majority of Internet radio stations. Namely it means:
• About 20% of Czech jazz, 40% of other European jazz and 30-40% of American jazz in the whole broadcasting time.
• The program cannot be circumvented without American jazz (if only because American artists may be more recognizable for the audience), but the ratio would mean that the European jazz would have been on the same level as American jazz in the broadcasting time.
• The ratio may of course vary depending on the situation, or set up differently depending on the part of the day.
• The proportion of Czech jazz is fully adequate to its promotion abroad.
The European character of Euro Jazz is also reflected in the thematic blocks. For example, the European jazz hour presents jazz from various European countries at a specific time (every Monday at 6 pm).
How to listen
You can listen to Euro Jazz online via the Czech Radio website or at Delicast network.You can download the stream to your audio player (Winamp, Real Player, iTunes..) or Wi-fi radio directly. Here are the URLs of the streams:
MP3 128
http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/download/jazz_high_mp3.m3u
OGG 256
http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/download/jazz_high_ogg.m3u
OGG 128
http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/download/jazz_mid_ogg.m3u
AAC 128
http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/download/aac-crojazz-128.m3u
WMA 128
http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/download/crojazz-128.asx
WMA 64
http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/download/crojazz-64.asx
Program blocks
• The basics form accessible blocks of Modern mainstream – this block presents mainly quality jazz (including straight-ahead, world jazz, funk jazz, jazz rock)
• At night and in the evening: jazz blocks for more experienced listeners (including free jazz).
• In the morning, at night and at noon: blocks of older music – Mostly Bop, Hard bop hour, Swing Only
• Enhanced Thematic Selections: one-hour evening blocks of European jazz, Czech jazz, Free jazz and experimental, Nu Jazz and Electronic, Pop - Jazz Hour.
• Live concerts recordings from the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) or Czech Radio production.
• You can find the complete daily program here.
Contact
We also want to hear from you – your feedback is important to us. (Email/ Facebook / Twitter / Youtube)
