Smooth jazz!

My week just got infinitely better.

Backstory: You probably don't remember this, but there used to be a radio station in New York City called CD101.9 WQCD. It played smooth jazz. Basically, I grew up listening to only this station, and never listened to any genre but smooth jazz until about eighth grade. It was amazing. Then, about five years ago, the format was changed to top 40 (Now it's called WRXP: The Rock Experience, blerg) and the station went completely downhill since it's kind of impossible to compete with PLJ and Z100. I guess that could have been a good thing, because it got me to start listening to other genres, but it was also bad because, duh, then I didn't have any smooth jazz (this was before I actually started collecting music, so I didn't have any songs saved). Last year I found SmoothJazz.com, which was okay, but it pretty much only played newer smooth jazz, not the amazing classic 90's stuff. It's nice, but not quite the same.

Flashforward to now. I don't know why it took me this long to realize it, but last night I remembered that CD101.9 had a sister station down in Washington, DC that was owned by the same company. I found it while I was flipping through the stations when I went to visit my cousins down there years ago. I have no clue why that fact popped into my head after so long. But anyway, I went to search for it, and it still exists! It's 105.9 WJZW and turns out it doesn't play over terrestrial radio any more, but it's still broadcasted over HD radio and online through the website (It's also in iTunes in that Radio tab in the jazz section if you look for WJZW-HD2, in case any of you are interested. You probably aren't, but just in case). Works for me, and it still plays the 90's music along with some newer stuff! It's like my childhood all over again. I'm listening to songs I haven't heard in way too many years. Even some of the bumpers (those jingles in between songs that say the name of the station) are the same exact thing, except for saying 105.9 instead of 101.9.

Only thing I'm disappointed with is the fact that they don't play a Stevie Wonder song at least once every couple of hours. It's not that I particularly like his music, it's just that since he was on so often, my family always had contests to see who could shout "Stevie!" first whenever he came on. It was intense.

I know this doesn't sound important, but it really made me so much happier after these unenjoyable past few days. I am content.