Itapema FM

Itapema FM's commitment to jazz, blues, and rock puts it at odds with Brazil's mainstream pop radio, and that tension defines everything the station does. Programming skews toward jazz fusion and post-bop territory - artists like Hermeto Pascoal and pianists trained in Rio's conservatories share slots with international jazz legends. What distinguishes this from generic jazz radio is the Brazilian context applied throughout. Blues gets filtered through a samba-inflected lens, with bossa nova guitarists sitting alongside American blues standards. Rock means guitar-driven music with actual songw…