Well, we have satellite radio over here which is decent. But I spend all my time listening to 40s on 4--which plays music from the 40s (some GREAT jazz and R&B from that era). Also the Bluesville channel which plays a lot of good blues including some good modern stuff I probably would never have heard otherwise. Of course, I listen to channel 67 which is jazz, jazz, jazz. And they play some nice stuff too--Miles, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Art Tatum, Coltrane, Al Haig, Coleman Hawkins, Basie, Bill Evans, Ornette, Duke, Lester Young, Diz, Dexter Gordon, Ron Carter, Donald Byrd--wonderful stuff. I would like to hear more Sun Ra, Joe Pass, Neils Pedersen, Ray Brown, Bix & Frankie, Archie Shepp, Oscar P and so on--but they probably play those guys when I'm not listening. Jazz is a huge universe.

It's really local radio I'm ranting about. It's pathetic. You had to live in Detroit in the 60s and 70s to know what I'm talking about. There is one Canadian station that still plays the old AM hit radio format that I listened to as a boy but being AM the reception is bad--certainly not comparable to satellite--but they actually play about a half-hour of music with only a few commercials and I can hear all those great old hits I listened to as a wee lad so kudos to them.

But, you know, I've outgrown that and don't want to hear that all the time. But other than that local station, the rest are horrible. And I mean horrible. Compare it to what it used to be when I was in my adolescence and there is no doubt of how badly it has fallen.

/////like Yes and King Crimson////

I liked Yes but was never a huge Yes fan. As for Crimson, as I hit my teens (I was listening to "Court" when I was 11), I went for their more obscure stuff like "Earthbound" which Fripp apparently hated but which I thought was excellent. Then again, it was close to jazz if not outright jazz--mixed with Fripp's sense of the bizarre. They should have done more stuff like that. "Lark's Tongues" was pretty good as was "Red." I was and still am a huge fan of Fripp & Eno. Haven't had a release since 2004. They need to get on the stick.

///You are listening to the wrong side of the Atlantic, Josepp.///

On this side of the Atlantic, we have been polluted with the likes of Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan who belong on YOUR side of the Atlantic.