You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Jazz is undeniably one of America's greatest contributions to the world, but rock listeners sometimes have a hard time finding their

way in.

I'm Jim Deregadis.

And I'm Greg Kot.

So to make it a little less daunting, today we're offering the rock fan's guide to jazz.

Then Jim will put a song into the Desert Island jukebox.

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

This is sound opinions and Greg later in the show we are going to deal with the world of jazz from the perspective of rock fans

You know when I was a kid growing up across the Hudson River from Manhattan. I had some great experience I could see see Arpe Lakey play in the village. I got to see Les Paul. I don't think I appreciated it at the time.

Jazz kind of hurt my little brain. Well if we got a show for you Jim we're going to help you out and a lot of other people who are in the same boat in terms of coming to jazz from a rock perspective.

That's going to be later on, but first we've got some music news. News. That is the Norwegian pop phenom. Uh-huh.

Greg, I think I have trouble even thinking of another band from Norway ever.

Why are we playing a group from that country?

Norway made international news it's going

to become in 2017 the first country in the world to permanently turn off FM

radio to stop broadcasts on what's called terrestrial radio in favor of

digital radio. Now Norway only has five FM radio stations right now. They've

already got 22 national stations on digital radio, but the Ministry

of Culture in that country is saying this is a move that will allow Norwegians to access

quote more diverse and pluralistic radio content and enjoy

better sound quality. The reason this is interesting is people are saying

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