junsjazz cool grooves: Sitti Navarro

JUNSJAZZ e-FM Internet Radio

That's right folks! You can now listen to the coolest music in this blog thru JUNSJAZZ e-FM internet radio via SHOUTcast on your Winamp Media Player. If you don't have Winamp installed in your PC, you can download it here. It's probably the best media player around with tons of features and functionalities, and it's free!

Now the simple steps:
1. On the Media Library menu (left panel), click SHOUTtcast Radio.
2. On the "Enter Search Terms" box, type in JUNSJAZZ e-FM, on the "Genre" dropdown box choose smooth jazz, and on the nearby box choose All Bitrates. Click "Search".
3. When JUNSJAZZ e-FM crops up, just click "Tune In".

The good news, those without Winamp player which is compatible only with Windows OS, to the detriment of legions of Mac users, can also access and tune in to the station thru the SHOUTcast website. For a direct link to the station, click here.

This is not a commercial endeavor. I just had to find a way to personally share to the world the music I love and with the wonders of technology I am able to freely stream jazz music across the Internet. I'm broadcasting from my PC server at home and with my available bandwidth I could fit in 20 listeners simultaneously. I have made various playlists of the thousands of jazz MP3s in my 500 gig external hard disk and, of course, play them all for your listening pleasure. Aside from the obligatory sleep (for an insomniac like me that's just a few hours) and the times when I have to go outdoors to indulge my other passion which is photography, I will endeavor to keep the station up and running for most of the time.

So do tune in and enjoy the jazz experience! Thanks!

A Passion for Jazz

Two passions fill my free time: photography and jazz music. I maintain around seven blogs and sites relating to photography which I came to enjoy six years ago when I had my first digital camera. Jazz music, however, has been a personal fave and delight for more than half of my life, starting with my college days when I bought my first jazz album on cassette tape (CDs then cost like gold) - Dave Grusin's Mountain Dance. From that first, my cassette tape collection of jazz artists grew to 600 pieces, which I still keep and cherish until now. A separate collection of jazz CDs and MP3s amassed in recent years is another story. In short, this blog is an integral part of my passion for jazz where I get to collect online the tunes that I grew up with, listen again to the classics that were so hard to find then but are now just a "search" away, rediscover the artists whose creations have provided me years of musical enjoyment, and expose myself to the amazing new breed of jazz talents. Though I have learned to play just a note or two, I have however fully developed an appreciation and discernment of an ideal musical form which I humbly share with you through this blog. Be with me in this jazz journey.

How To Enjoy The Music In This Blog

Unless your PC is connected to your home theater system, as in my case, then you're missing out on fully enjoying the music in this blog. As some of you may know, the player you click to listen to the music (either blue or orange rectangular boxes below each artist's posted album image), is a compressed music code that churns out music at low fidelity, sometimes sampled only at 64kbps, as against the CD-quality of 128kbps and above. Assuming you have a stable and fast internet connection free of lags and crashes, you have to compensate in some other areas to enjoy a rich listening experience, and one of the crucial components are the speakers. My PC is wired to a Pioneer 5.1 receiver which is the nerve center of my HT system which powers 600 watts of surround sound. Without this kind of setup, it is wise to invest in a reliable and dependable PC speaker system which can faithfully reproduce music even in its less than pristine form. However, 6 speakers (5.1 system) may be too much of a clutter for most desktop lay-out and a decent 2.1 (left, right speakers, 1 sub) stereo system would be enough for many. But if your PC is also your media entertainment center and would like the whole surround sound shebang, then by all means go for it. Just remember that you would need a 5.1 analog output from your PC soundcard connected to the 5.1 inputs of your receiver to realize surround sound. Then again we're talking music listening here and the best for that is still the good ol' stereo with a sub unit to carry those low frequencies - the Hammond organ of James Taylor Quartet, the bass slaps of Stanley Clarke and those thunderous drums of Dave Weckl - well, you know what I mean. The carousel widget below shows some great new stuff from Amazon.com to help you in your choices.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Sitti Navarro

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“Tall and tan, young and lovely” is the famous opening of the classic bossa song, “The Girl from Ipanema”. These words came to Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes when seeing young Heloisa Pinheiro pass by the café where they used to sit, right at the Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her stunning beauty attracted the attention of these two bossa legends, and that was the story of how “The Girl from Ipanema” was written in 1962. If the young girl were Sitti, surely Jobim and Moraes would write the song just the same. Besides the beauty she has, Sitti can also sing beautifully. That’s the reason why Sitti is even better than the young girl described in The Girl from Ipanema...This month of July 2009, Sitti released a brand new album entitled Contagious. This is her 6th album, after 2006’s “Cafe Bossa” and “Sitti Live!” 2007’s “Sitti in the Mix” and “My Bossa Nova”, and the previous 2008’s Christmas album “Ngayong Pasko”. Through her bossa she successfully grabs the heart of many listeners including the youngsters and becomes widely popular again in Philippines. Sitti is one of the most important figures that help to preserve bossa around Asia in the millennium. Her previous albums have reached many achievements. Her debut album “Cafe Bossa” received Certified Double Platinum, “Sitti Live!” and “Ngayong Pasko” got Certified Gold, also “My Bossa Nova” gained Certified Platinum. I’m genuinely sure this brand new album, “Contagious”, will soon follow the success of the previous ones.~By Randy K from Jazzuality.com