i would like to see some new blood in the music and the management

i feel that the reason that smooth jazz in general and philly smooth jazz in particular was unable to sustain itself twice were two things. one is the program directors and two was the artist'music became predictable and systematic. i recall when this so-called "smooth jazz" first arrived on the scene it was fresh, the music selection consisted of artist who were free to experiment and flow free. the song selection as relates to vocals (it use to be called smooth jazz and easy listening, remember?) use to consist of the likes of roberta flack, cassandra wilson, diane reeves etc, artist who were emmersed in the jazz tradition. then came the vanessa williams, the anita bakers, the celine dions etc etc. they are great singers but with all due respect to these artist they are not the singers that the "smooth jazz artist were interested in hearing on our station. simply put, the stations as a whole lost focus and thus lost the listeners who were true "smooth jazz" enthusiast who were interested in some music outside of tradional jazz but still closely hinged at the hip.

if u wonder why i put "smooth jazz" in quotes its because i have always struggled with that title, but i will deal with that at a later date.

then came this formulaic instrumental music, and i wont name artist, i will simply say that everyone started to sound the same, add a dash of this and a pinch of that and youve got yourself a "radio friendly" jazz hit. that being said, they lost us....they simply lost us. no more stanley clarke did we hear, no more rodney franklin, no more sadao watenabe, no jaco pastorius. nothing. they stuffed our bellies with a steady diet of "radio friendly" sugar music and the listener became board.

that being said, if the stations had been on top of their game they would have stopped with the "we polled the listener and this is what they wanted to hear" and they would have contacted us long before it came to this and they would have emailed all of the listeners and said "hey, we want to really know what u want. come to abcd hotel on friday and we will listen to you and fix this thing called "smooth jazz". but that never happened, i myself, called program directors and begged them to change the format back to what it was originally and stop playing these same artist. but to no avail i was blown off.

and what are we seeing my "smooth jazz family"? we are watching the music that we all love become a thing of the past, we are now resorting to listening to our music on the internet. it didnt have to come to this if they had sought out the listener.

my hope for this new internet platform is that they dont drag alot of the baggage as relates to personnel from the radio station to this platform and pickup where they failed and start injecting our ear drums with the same regurgitated stuff that we dealt with on the radio station.

these are my opinions and im entitled to them. disregard misspelled words and run on sentences, i dont have time to proof read and play tiddly winks, i dont use the cap button and i really dont have time to spell check, i get it close and i keep it real and i hope yall keep it real with me. try and understand what im saying to u. u feel me?