Wbgo-Fm Jazz 88

Holy Shit I didn’t know I could review a radio station! I love me some Wbgo. I have a second job driving around north Jersey, and I usually do my work Sunday morning. Love to just take it easy cruisin’ to some 88.3 on your FM dial. Tuesday Latin Jazz Cruise has always been my jams. Like Patrick said these guys got radio friendly smooooth voices. It’s like being in a Tarantino movie. Love it.

This is truly the best Jazz station EVER! BGO has been on for years and years and is still going strong. This music is what plays in my house almost everyday, whenever I’m not listening to my own hand selected music or videos. Every kind of jazz, swing/​big band music, blues in the afternoon on weekdays, classics, and soul classics on weekend afternoons. I think I even heard some doo wop on there a few times. Amazing! And they play ALL the legends. Every last one you can think of and a few that you didn’t even know about…
This station also gives such a great education on jazz, jazz artists and the histories of both via the selections played and the little tidbits of info on the artists and the actual recording session the DJ’s provide. You won’t find better, I swear!
Now, if the night time DJ would just get over his obsession with playing loud, blaring horn music on the late nights after 9pm. Dude is horn crazy and for me evenings should just have more mellow fare. I’m listening right now, and the last 11 out of 12 songs featured a strong lead tenor and even a soprano saxophone. omg, my ears are ringing! I have to turn it down it’s so blaring loud! And there’s no break — it’s one hard as hell horns selection after the next! How about some piano or guitar leads, DJ? Hell, some harp maybe? Vibes? That’s my only gripe — too much loud as hell horn on the nighttime shows to the point where I have to turn it off sometimes. Yes, the selections are from the masters but still… More balance, less horn after 10pm = PERFECT!
Still love this station, though! Don’t know what I would do without it!

A real must. I listen to this great station since years when in NYC. I always chose my hotel according to this one criteria: to be in reach of the Newark transmitter, but now that jazz lovers have helped raise the money needed to build an antenna on top of the Empire State Building no need to stay in Midtown anymore. I can stay in Chinatown and save a lot of money and still indulge in the pleasure if the wirkd’s número UNO jazz station!

WBGO FM, 88.3. Can’t go wrong with this station. No annoying commercial, and nice to learn history of Jazz from the DJs. But, my favorite show WBGO is Felix Hernandez’s «Rhythm Revue» on late Saturday morning!

Awesome Jazz Station, my absolute favorite day is Tuesdays when they’re blaring Latin Jazz all day long. I hate to see this wonderful station have to work so hard to raise operational funds while the Z100’s of the world are swimming in ad money playing their tasteless commercial garbage tunes. I am however excited they got a new antenna and improved service and clarity, Support WBGO!

I like to listen to this station on line @ home once in awhile. A great blend of «straight ahead jazz» & «smooth jazz». Keep up the great work guy’s!

This has got to be the best Jazz radio station that I have ever heard. Not only is do they cover so many styles of Jazz, they also interview a ton of musicians, and you get to learn about their style of play and also a lot about Jazz history. On Saturday, from 10am to 2pm, they take requests for music. I only wish they would do it more often.
This is one of those radio stations that get me through my day. For someone who works alone all day everyday, this station helps me remain relaxed.

No, not the best radio station in the country. Not the best radio station in the world. The best radio station in the galaxy, hands down.
I came across this radio station by accident in the 1990s. My college station was WHPK 88.5 FM in Chicago, and I always had the dial set to that. When I came back to NYC for the summer I just turned the boom box on and I heard some wonderful jazz, albeit a bit staticy. Fiddled with the dial a bit and realized that I was just a couple of digits off. I’ve rarely changed the station since and I’ve now been a member for 16 ½ years.
They play, as they say, Real Jazz, Right Now. That’s all they do except for a few specialty shows like R&B, Blues, and some good local news programs, and a couple of syndicated NPR shows on weekday evenings. But for the most part, this is great jazz, straight ahead. Knowledgeable DJs who neither overwhelm you with banter nor have an annoying public radio drone, but just play great music, tell you something you didn’t know, and drop the occasional bon mot.
Reception may be tricky in some places, so if you for some reason aren’t able to listen over the internet it can be tough. But if you like jazz or want to learn more about it, you can’t do better than Jazz 88. Anywhere.

all jazz all day long. doesn’t get better than this.
they play just about every style of jazz imaginable.
too bad i can’t get a better reception in certain parts of nyc and long island.

The best jazz radio station in the world!!! Check out Felix Hernandez on Saturday mornings for a dose of old time R&B…

When the days get shorter and the weather a little colder I start to get a craving for jazz. WBGO is the best jazz radio station in the country. The DJs are knowledgeable and have great radio voices.
A great experience is a fall evening with WBGO on the car radio and rolling south on the turnpike between exits 16 and 11. The lights of Manhattan on the left and the glow of Newark and the refineries on the right. This is the landscape that has inspired generations of jazz greats.
I think I will listen to Gary Walker tomorrow morning on the way to Newark Airport.