Dwain Segar hosts "The Segar Jazz Affair," a smooth jazz radio show and concert series in Athens, Georgia. Segar's interest in smooth jazz began in his 20s when he discovered the genre on the radio.

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 ...

Editor’s note: The article is updated with additional information about jazz radio station WDCB. Ever since musicians like Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton were playing at nightclubs ...