Good news for UK jazz fans: theJazz

Digital One, the UK's only commercial national DAB multiplex owner launched theJazz at 9am this morning.

Although theJazz only broadcasts in mono, this is the first ever national jazz station in the UK.

theJazz will play music from across the jazz spectrum, including bebop, swing, cool jazz, trad, blues, modern jazz. Artists featured on the station will include Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Weather Report, Branford Marsalis, Denys Baptiste, Jamie Cullum, Diana Krall and Madeleine Peyroux.