Clint, I've been listening to jazz for the last 40 years (started with a high school history assignment about events of the 1940's -50's)
Local radio stations years ago played Jazz then switched formats to accommodate the listener (Jazz was/is considered an old person genre).
Anyway, I started recording this particular Jazz radio program "The Dark Side" hosted by local jock
Ron Cuzner. His show ran from Midnight to 6am daily.
The average cassette tape was only 45 minutes one side, (reel to reel was also not an option) so I decided to try VCR tapes and capturing the entire 6 hour program on one tape. Cuzner's show did move from one station to another (over 10 different stations in Milwaukee), however, keeping the original concept in place, the majority of his 6 hour long shows were ad/commercial free, only to mention the sponsors name. Cuzner played Jazz from his own collection, Jazz from around the world. Jazz never heard before and new releases only available to Jazz radio stations. His collection consisted of over 20,000 albums.
I collected over 50 of his programs on tape. These recordings (and many more from others) are now available
FREE on podcasts to anyone with iTunes
here is the link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dark-side-with-ron-cuzner/id482531748?mt=2
you can also find Ron Cuzner on Facebook hosted by an extremely supportive fan with an extensive knowledge of Jazz.
https://www.facebook.com/Ron-Cuzner-97979281464/
I did manage to get all my recordings placed on a separate hard drive with help from an engineer of a local recording company.
Over the years of listening to Ron's shows, I've developed my own Jazz music collection of nearly 1000 discs (vinyl and Compact Discs).
Since then, I've transferred all of my recordings (CD's and Ron Cuzner's radio programs) to a 160GB iPod Classic and more recently to iCloud.
