Mostly Pop “Jazz” with too many Commercials? – Jazz Radio+ Review

I’m not into what’s called “Smooth Jazz”, because despite the considerable talents of some of the practitioners, as a genre it’s more pop or funk music than jazz. Remember the axiom: It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing! I spent an hour or so after downloading the app categorizing the channels, and what I found was that out of the 56, 22 were pop music with jazz-type improvisation usually, 18 were Jazz, 9 were miscellaneous, 5 were Latin, while one was Classical and the last Hawaiian. The commercials were way too frequent so I almost dumped it right there and gave two stars. I returned to add another star after listening to two or three of the dedicated jazz stations for a couple of hours, especially Jazz Groove. No ads at all and only one pop/funk tune, by Stanley Clarke, so since he’s the real deal I gave him a pass. ? After my second session I returned to make it four stars and that’s my usual max. To get five not only must an app do what it says but must be good in bed and clean my somewhat skanky bathroom. Thanks to this great dev I may have to soon add that last one anyway.
Review by Monty Proton on Jazz Radio+.