Jazz Radio with a Live Chicago Clock

Green Mill shadows and South Side lineage — Chicago jazz with blues in its pockets and Central Time on the wall.

Chicago jazz never lost its blues accent. The music came up the river with the Great Migration, got electrified on the South Side, and kept a working-class swing you can still hear leaking out of the Green Mill — a bar so storied Capone had a preferred booth and the jazz simply outlasted him.

This station pours that heritage neat: tenor sax with shoulders, piano that knows both church and after-hours, bass lines walking like a man with somewhere warm to be. The Central-time clock burns above the bar-back, and the scene keeps the city's big-shouldered dusk.

For late reading, whiskey-optional evenings, and anyone who likes jazz with a little grit under the polish.