Committed to creating the best jazz music and arts programming in Central Illinois!
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Live the life 24/7: Streaming jazz from John Coltrane to Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, and other great American artists.
Champaign Public Media has partnered with public broadcasting programming leader, The WFMT Radio Network, to bring America's original art form, jazz music here 24/7! Embrace your passion for jazz, and interviews with leading musicians and artists and entertainers!
Our programs promote the greater good: the universal spirituality of jazz music and culture from Louis Armstrong to Wynton Marsalis!
We produce local jazz and arts radio and TV content that is essential for Central Illinois. Our producers Gene and Nancy Koprowski are Telly Award winners and Emmy Award nominees, and have created for PBS-TV and public radio for decades. Our senior correspondent MaryIlene Blondell is a BAFTA Award winner for best feature film. We're inspired by Champaign-Urbana, and our purpose is to enrich lives, engage the community, and inspire exploration.
Tune in any time and leave the streaming station on in the background all day at home or in the office.
For after hours, we also feature streaming music videos from jazz greats from Frank Sinatra to Dizzy Gillespie and more - music television, public broadcasting style.
FNX provides the latest in TV cultural and arts documentaries on-demand, and online for Champaign.
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie jam together on live TV.
A World War II era film clip of Duke Ellington, America's leading jazzman.
Guitar great George Benson during a live TV performance.
THE BLUES: A documentary on jazz and the blues by acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese (THE IRISHMAN, 2020, SILENCE, 2018, GOODFELLAS, 1990, RAGING BULL, 1980).
The acclaimed, multipart documentary by Oscar-winners and Emmy-winners Ken Burns and Lyn Novick from PBS America.
Jave favorite, TAKE FIVE (originally by Dave Brubeck)
The title track of the guitarist Sonny Sharrock’s debut album (1969).Sonny’s rapid guitar chords grows more riotous as the track reaches its crescendo.
Recorded live at the Paradise nightclub in Harlem, Roy Brooks’s “Ethnic Expressions” is a capital-B Black record, from its red, black and green cover art to the deep threads of soul and funk. captured on the LP.
John Coltrane plays tenor sax onhis hit ALABAMA.
Composed by film director Spike Lee's father, Bill Lee, the recording is a mystical jazz opus with strong transcendental power.
Rare recording of jazz great Frank Sinatra singing 'Fly Me to the Moon.'
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