NUCROOZE

NUCROOZE doesn't chase the smooth-jazz market. The playlist leans modern European jazz: piano trios with actual space in them, the kind of playing Florian Weber and Michael Wollny trade in, plus a heavy streak of London school energy from Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings. It's a smart pairing. German jazz radio has always had a taste for the cerebral, and this one doesn't apologize for it. You'll also catch spiritual jazz and the occasional hard-bop standard, so it's not all chin-stroking. Some sets drift. Some hold you. That's jazz. What makes it worth keeping on: there's no algorithm smoot…