One of the things I like about G-town radio is that it starts every morning with jazz programming. The internet community station broadcasts to the Germantown section of Philadelphia. From Monday to Saturday the jazz streams from six to nine am, and to ten am on Sundays.
“Get out of bed mix featuring classic jazz, mellow pop and downtempo electronica,” the station’s program schedule explains.
I don’t know why, but jazz in the AM makes me feel optimistic and hip at the same time. I drive into work and there is a ballad by Dexter Gordon or something similar, and I feel like the world is a loving, rational place, even though it isn’t. I feel like I am connected to everyone around me, even if I am not.
“If music is a place, Jazz is the city,” says the writer Vera Nazarian. I’m with that. Speaking of cities, G-town is doing an interesting weekly series on the future of its environs.
“The first eight-episode season focused on local government, and the second honed in on the neighborhood’s network of small businesses,” an article in Billy Penn notes. “The current leg of the show has a broader scope. Each episode will explore a different Germantown attribute, from the neighborhood’s history to its modern crime, poverty and housing inequity.”
