The bad news: San Antonio hasn’t had 24/7, on-the-air jazz since the megacorporate-owned smooth jazz station changed its format to “jammin’ hits.” The good news: You can still hear jazz every day; and ...

Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...