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KPLU 88.5 FM Trad Jazz Music from Tacoma

For the best of your favorite jazz legends and the best of the unheard greats, Tacoma and surrounding Washington turn to 88.5 FM KPLU. With familiar songs that make you get up and dance, unfamiliar songs that make you want to know more and the most news on the upper west coast, KPLU is your best source for jazz and NPR news.

KPLU plays the widest variety of classic and contemporary artists. Tune in for the artists you know and love like Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, and Michael Brecker, new wave jazz musicians like Michael Buble, Norah Jones, and Alicia Keys, and many you’ve never heard of. Let Joshua Redman, Herbie Hancock, Dewey Redman, and Sandy Stewart, guide you through the workday with great jazz sounds.

The DJs at KPLU are as dedicated to the jazz music they play as the musicians themselves. From Midnight to 3am you can join Kevin Kniestedt for Jazz on the Grooveyard, keeping you company in those lonely hours of the graveyard shift or the sleepless nights. After that, it’s NPR’s morning edition with national anchors and local anchor Kirsten Kendrick to keep you up-to-date. At 9am, Midday Jazz takes over with Dick Stein, who hands off the mike to Robin Lloyd at Noon for your lunch time mix of jazz favorites. At 3pm you’re back to the news with NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ and local anchor Dave Meyer until 6pm when Terry Gross comes on with a little Fresh Air. At 7:30pm, Abe Beeson takes over with Evening Jazz and takes you through the night.

On the web site you can pledge your support with a donation to help keep the jazz alive. Make 88.5 FM’s dreams of a new broadcast center a reality! Log on and tune in to live streaming radio twenty four hours a day, and explore the many online features KPLU 88.5 FM has to offer.

Tacoma, Washington gets its jazz hits from KPLU 88.5 FM.