KUVO is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a public radio

Public broadcasting

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 format. Licensed to Denver

Denver, Colorado

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, Colorado

Colorado

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, the station is currently owned and operated by Denver Educational Broadcasting, Inc. It began operations on August 29, 1985.

The station's local programming consists primarily of jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, and latin jazz

Latin jazz

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 music, but it also includes programs devoted to other musical genres such as acid jazz

Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and Grant Green are...

, funk

Funk

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, gospel

Gospel music

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, r&b, and salsa. The station also carries selected NPR and other syndicated programs such as: Marian McPartland

Marian McPartland

Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE is an English-born jazz pianist, composer, writer, and the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio, NPR.-Early life:...

's Piano Jazz

Piano Jazz

Piano Jazz is a weekly one hour radio show produced and distributed by National Public Radio. It began on June 4, 1978 and has always been hosted by jazz pianist Marian McPartland. It is the longest running cultural program on NPR. The show features a single guest, and usually consists of about an...

; Riverwalk Jazz

Riverwalk jazz

Riverwalk Jazz is a popular weekly public radio series distributed by Public Radio International.- History :The series began broadcasting in 1989 and is produced by PVPMedia. The principal performing band on Riverwalk Jazz is the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The series co-hosts are bandleader Jim Cullum,...

, hosted by Jim Cullum; Jazz from Lincoln Center, hosted by Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

; and Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater...

's Jazz Set. The station has its own performance studio and will on occasion broadcast live performances and interviews by local and national recording artists.

KUVO, which commonly refers to itself on-air as "The Oasis in the City", won the Major Market Jazz Station of the Year Award in 2005 and 2006 from JazzWeek Magazine.