Dwain Segar hosts "The Segar Jazz Affair," a smooth jazz radio show and concert series in Athens, Georgia. Segar's interest in smooth jazz began in his 20s when he discovered the genre on the radio.

There was a time when listening to jazz on the radio was a highly personal experience. Disc jockeys like New York City’s Symphony Sid laid down a carpet of lush-toned introductions, their tune ...

Ralph Nozaki, known professionally as Rick O’Dell, has had many titles throughout his career at various radio stations in the Chicagoland area. Soon, the pioneer of the smooth jazz format will have ...

Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...