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Monday - Friday: 6AM-12N
Sunday: 12N-6PM

Troy Duran has loved Jazz since he was about 14. Perusing the album bin in a music store (remember those?) in his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico, he stumbled upon Spyro Gyra’s Morning Dance. Admittedly teenage boys typically respond to visual stimuli.

Dropping the needle on track one (the title track) filled his musical sails, pulling him over the choppy shallows of pop rock idols like Alice Cooper and Kiss, into the beautiful deep blue waters filled with the music George Benson and David Sanborn. Deeper dives into the greats revealed more treasures, including Dave Brubeck’s Take Five, the voice of Mose Allison, and of course, trumpet great Miles Davis and Kind Of Blue.

Troy’s love of great music continues, and constantly expands to include the greatest songs of all times, as performed by the best artists of all generations. So, as long as you want to keep listening to Jazzy- he’ll keep on playing the music!

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Monday - Saturday: 12N - 6PM

Married to Jim since 1981, they have a daughter, Kim, and a furry boy named Quinn, who is always dapper in his tuxedo. Karen’s Mom lives with them in Forestville, with her two little dogs.

Raised on all kinds of jazz, she also listens to other styles of music. Karen enjoys traveling, live music, reading, movies, her church family, and relaxing with friends.

Originally from Seattle, Karen’s radio career began in the mid-80’s, after graduating from Los Angeles Broadcasters (The LAB) in Hollywood, California. Immediately upon completion of broadcasting school, she left Southern California to join Jim, who had found employment in Petaluma 10 months earlier. Karen was hired by local station KVRE and has been on the air at numerous stations in San Francisco and north of the Golden Gate.

She came on board here in May of 1998 as one of the weekend hosts at KZST while she waited for an opening at KJZY, where she has happily plied her trade ever since.

Along with her on-air duties, she is also Creative Director for our 9-station group, managing in-house commercial production.

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Monday-Sunday 6PM-12M

Born in Los Angeles but a Chicagoland native since 1970 Domingo Castillo got his start in radio in 1992 at Chicago’s Smooth Jazz flagship WNUA 95.5 and enjoyed the next 17+ years thriving at that very same station.

“I had the unique experience to have started as a fan of WNUA in high school, then an intern, a hired producer working behind the scenes, to ultimately hosting my own weekend afternoon show. I was 22 when I first walked through those doors and when that final morning of Smooth Jazz WNUA eventually came, I was proud to say that I’d been with the station for nearly half my life.”

Throughout the later 90s, 2000s and 2010s Domingo continued a simultaneous teaching career as an Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago instructing in the Broadcasting / Communications department until more recently branching out on his own as a full-time Voice Actor and VO Coach.

He’s logged hundreds of collective miles on bicycle trails with his wife and for the past 15 years he’s somehow also enjoyed a career as a full-time working bandleader / musician performing as many as 125 shows annually.

“Long before I was ever hired to speak into a microphone I’ve forever been a fan of music…and Timeless Jazz just can’t be beat.”

Domingo is proud to be the newest member to join the Jazzy team and is looking forward to sharing old memories of this wonderful music as well as making a few new memories along the way.

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The Dave Koz Radio Show
Sunday 7AM-9AM

In the 25 years since the release of his self-titled solo debut album, saxophonist Dave Koz has received nine GRAMMY® nominations, had nine No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, toured the world, been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has hosted the weekly two hour internationally syndicated Dave Koz Radio Show continuously for more than 20 years.

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Sid Mark
The Sounds of Sinatra
Saturday 6PM-8PM

We are sad to report that Sid Passed away on April 19, 2022 at the age of 88. The show will continue with reruns.

It has been written that Sid Mark speaks three languages - English, Yiddish, and Sinatra. Since 1956, Sid Mark has been playing, preaching and praising the talents of Frank Sinatra on Philadelphia radio stations for hundreds of thousands of loyal listeners.

His Sunday with Sinatra and Fridays with Frank shows had been part of the WWDB (96.5 FM) line-up for more than 20 years. In 2000 these shows moved to WPHT (1210 AM) in Philadelphia, and, as at WWDB, Sid hosts the only music shows on an all-talk radio station.

In 1966, Sid received an early release of a new Sinatra album, which he played over and over again for his radio audience. Record stores were sold out of the album virtually overnight. Frank Sinatra learned of this and invited Sid to meet with him in Las Vegas. "My bags had been packed for 10 years," said Sid of this first of many meetings with his legendary friend.

In addition to his weekly Friday with Frank and Sunday with Sinatra programs on WPHT, Sid's Sounds of Sinatra show is syndicated nationally to stations across America.