Thank You Pandora

I would just like to take a moment to celebrate the fact that I finally found the perfect Pandora station for instrumental jazz. It is the David Benoit station with Bill Evens and Urban Knights as variety.

Finding this "perfect" station was surprisingly hard to do. It probably mostly stems from the fact that I knew very little instrumental jazz artist when I began my search. One of the reason I was looking so hard, was because I did not know the composers to the type of jazz I liked to listened to. I was in the dark, I had no idea who to look up, or who was good or not.

After months of googling jazz artist and such and trying out their radio on Pandora, I nearly gave up. It all seemed to turn into fusion, elevator music (yes, I know, technically that is not a genre), or boogie in the end. I am not too fond of boogie, elevator music  is okay, but I prefer something with more of a beat, and I hate fusion.

Then one day I was browsing the genre stations, and found the one called Smooth Jazz. For a while I listened to that. Sure, it was mostly the elevator type music, but it was the best I had come across yet. Then there was this one song that struck a cord with me, (no pun intended.) It was a song by David Benoit, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I thumbs uped it. Pretty soon another song by him was played, and I loved that one too. I decided to take a risk. I made a David Benoit station. I would have been content with the Smooth Jazz radio, but I like the fact that I have more control over the stations that I make myself as apposed to the one Pandora comes up with. I added Bill Evens after a while, mostly because I like the piano as a medium for jazz music. (He was one one of my favorites from my search in google land for jazz artist.) Urban Knights I added later after hearing a couple of songs by them. Only a few songs and I could tell they were EPIC!!!!! I have listened to much more of them now and while the covers to their albums are a little weird, I only love them more.