Jazz Cafe FM-Smooth & Jazzy

Jazz Cafe FM - Smooth and Jazzy - is an Argentine web radio built like a good cafe: warm, unhurried and fragrant with jazz. Its own welcome line says it all - a place to read, listen, watch and enjoy the jazz of yesterday, today and forever, always, as the host puts it, with a little coffee in between.

The programming is built from themed blocks with real curatorship: a Blue Note collection hour, a Glenn Miller swing hour, weekends of lounge and smooth, neo-soul, bossa nova and R'n'B in the late edition. Everything comes from the private record collection of its founder, Carlos Fernandez Pacin, vinyl and CDs alike, and the accompanying blog writes up every album like liner notes.

The stream runs at radiojazzcafefm.com.ar with a Hi-Fi stereo player, and the blog beside it keeps a concert guide and jazz news. It is a one-man labour of love - and it sounds like one.