Bop City - Internet Radio's
Jazz Center of the World

Imagine that you are back in the era when jazz was expanding beyond its perceived boundaries - when jazz was an American phenomenon.

Imagine that there is a radio station spinning records on the cutting edge of jazz, giving a nod to the origins of jazz and even sneaking in some blues now and then. Bop City is that radio station.


Why Bop City?


We love classic jazz and we enjoy sharing it with other jazz lovers.

With more and more radio stations dropping classic jazz from their formats, we decided to do something about it by creating Bop City, Vintage Jazz Internet Radio.
We present a selection of album oriented jazz that is not easily found and rarely heard on the radio.

Within our playlist, we include entire albums of artists rather than only select cuts. We feel that this gives the listener a better variety of an artists' body of work and results in a playlist with a vibe that ebbs and flows from within. This concept allows our listeners to delve deeper into the world of jazz.

Bop City is Live365's best alternative for classic jazz!

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

New Cuts

We've been incredibly busy adding cuts to the broadcast. Here are some of the artists that we've added in the last week: Doc Evans, George Wallington, Lee Morgan, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Heath, Chet Baker, Johnny Griffin, Clifford Brown, Kenny Burrell and John Coltrance, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, Jazzical Moods, Johnny Hodges, Dick Morgan, Billy Taylor, Wynton Kelly, Bobby Timmons, Victor Feldman and Barry Harris.

We've only been broadcasting for two months but we already have listeners from over fifty countries and from nearly all of the states in the USA. Thanks for the fabulous response.

Monday, February 05, 2007

The Colts - Superbowl Champs!

Wow! The Colts won the Superbowl! Bop City has been very busy updating the jazz on the broadcast. Here are some of the artists added over the last several days: Benny Goodman Sextet, Kansas City Six, Count Basie, Fats Navarro, The Four Brothers, Charlie Ventura, Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra, Gerry Mulligan, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins Quartet, Herbie Mann, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin, The Miles Davis Quintet, Hampton Hawes Trio, John Coltrane and Don Cherry, Donald Byrd, Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey, Yusef Lateef, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie and The Jazz Messengers... Yes, quite an update! Currently we are spinning Tenor Conclave and should have a couple of cuts from that LP up in an hour. Tell all of your friends and family about Bop City - we'd love to have them as listeners. Thanks to everybody all over the world for listening to Bop City!