[JPL] Want to P.D. at XM?

[Doug Crane]

The car I rented in SoCal last week was equipped with XM.  I had a 
chance to sample the jazz channel (70 as I recall).  Can't fault what 
I heard although if one wants just the least bit of variety, it's 
best to look elsewhere.  Good swinging stuff and by artists that I 
definitely need to play more of on my own show.  I found the choice 
of vocals probably the least inspired of anything I heard.  The tuner 
in the rental car allowed me to identify the artist, CD and song that 
was being played albeit in somewhat truncated format.  I was 
disappointed in the quality of the actual signal more than anything 
else.  The mere sight of an underpass caused it to disappear, far 
worse than had I been listening to an AM station.  And the fidelity 
was not stellar.  Maybe it was the car.  But I have to wonder: Is 
this progress???

They did make what I consider one of the cardinal sins of jazz 
programming: playing two 12-bar blues tunes in a row.  And long ones 
to boot.  There wasn't that much difference between them in tempo 
either.  I can't recall if the tunes were in the same key but it's a 
moot point.  So if you're someone from XM reading this, it's time to 
tweak that music software programming so it doesn't ever happen again!

Doug Crane
dcrane at comcast.net
KUVO Denver 89.3 FM
Wednesdays 7-9 PM

At 09:31 AM 7/24/2007, you wrote:

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