Vinyl Jazz Hour Radio Stations

The Hard Bop Crate

Mid-century small-group jazz the way the vinyl room plays it — hard bop's blues-driven swing, bebop's lightning lines, post-bop's open spaces. These stations stick to the canonical 1950s and 60s sessions and the modern players who keep that language alive: trio piano, working quartets, no soft-focus drift. Pour something, drop the needle, let it run.

12 live stations

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Stations

Radio Caprice - Hard Bop

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A dedicated hard bop channel from Radio Caprice's well-known specialist network — exactly the 50s/60s blues-and-gospel-inflected canon the brief promises.

Concertzender - Hard Bop

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Concertzender's hard bop stream pulls from a serious Dutch public-radio archive, leaning on full sessions and deep-cut programming rather than rotating singles.

181.fm - BeBop Jazz

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181.FM's bebop channel keeps an improvisation-first focus on instrumental playing — the dependable American counterpart to the European bop streams.

Radio Caprice - Post Bop Jazz

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Radio Caprice's post-bop sister channel covers the modal, harmonically restless side of the 60s small-group tradition the collection promises.

Radio Caprice - Bebop Be-bop

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Radio Caprice's bebop channel rounds out the bop trilogy with 1940s virtuoso material — the foundational vocabulary every later trio still leans on.

Just Jazz - Charlie Parker

A Parker-centric channel is unavoidable for a bebop-rooted collection; Just Jazz frames it as a single-artist deep dive in the spirit of a dedicated wax shelf.

Radio Art - Jazz Trios

Pure piano-bass-drums jazz trio programming — the late-night small-group sound that anchors the vinyl-room mood.

SomaFM - Sonic Universe

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SomaFM's hand-curated modern/experimental jazz channel keeps the post-bop end of the spectrum from drifting toward smooth — a respected indie voice rather than a generic genre feed.

JazzRadio After Hours

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After Hours covers the freer, more adventurous edge of modern jazz — fitting for listeners who follow the post-bop thread into open-form territory.

Radio Art - Piano Trios

Classical piano trios add a chamber-music breather between bop sets — same intimate three-voice conversation, different tradition, useful palate cleanser.

Triomantica

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Mexican guitar-trio boleros for after the bop set winds down — acoustic small-group music with the same late-night, dimmed-room feel.

Radio Patriota San Vicente

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Spanish-language adult-contemporary rounding piece, providing breadth when the strict bop stations cycle the same standards.