Smooth Jazz 97.9 provides Tallahassee and the surrounding areas with a radio alternative that satisfies listeners’ needs in the car, at work, and at home.

Smooth Jazz 97.9 music is distinctly different from anything else on the radio dial with a sophisticated, yet accessible blend of contemporary instrumental jazz and smooth vocals. Some of the artists featured on Smooth Jazz 97.9 include George Benson, Kenny G, Sade, David Sanborn, and Phil Collins.

Smooth Jazz 97.9 makes people feel good. The music, the promotions, community involvement and literally every element emitted over the airwaves contributes to that “feel good” concept!

Smooth Jazz 97.9 is the best sound available for delivering your advertising message to the affluent, mature, educated, home owner.

To get more information on Smooth Jazz 97.9 or set up a meeting to discuss your advertising and marketing needs
with a Market Consultant,
please call 850-561-8400 or e-mail Chris Cooper at ccooper@wjztfm.

A native of Kansas City, Kansas, Allen Kepler began playing trumpet at the age of 11. While in high school, he played in jazz band along side smooth jazz guitarist and Grammy winner Norman Brown. After receiving music performance scholarships to several universities Allen studied music, radio, television and film at the University of Kansas.

His first professional radio stint came in 1985 with San Diego’s Smooth Jazz pioneer, KIFM. Two years later Kepler moved from sunny Southern California to Chicago’s WNUA, where he worked on air and in programming before moving to Princeton, New Jersey to join Broadcast Architecture® in the winter of 1990.

By then, Kepler had earned a national reputation for his knowledge of Smooth Jazz. In 1992, Kepler founded BA's now legendary smooth jazz consulting arm, the Smooth Jazz Network™, and began consulting successful radio stations including WQCD New York, KTWV Los Angeles, KYOT in Phoenix, and WNUA. Kepler also served as director of the company's international programming for Tokyo's JOAV-FM (J-Wave). With BA, Kepler has personally consulted over 60 smooth jazz stations.

Billboard Magazine writer Ken Tucker described Kepler as "more than a consultant… he’s an evangelist for the smooth jazz format". "While radio consultants are involved in any number of aspects of a radio station's programming, it is downright rare to find them helping a station, let alone a format, sell itself to ad agencies."

As host of the Smooth Jazz Top 20 Countdown™, Allen continues his life-long relationship with smooth jazz music. Allen shares: “It is my hope that the Smooth Jazz TOP 20 Countdown will be a weekly treat for every smooth jazz fan. We’ll be sharing the biggest hits of smooth jazz as well as thoughtful insights from the artists themselves.”

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