Created on February 19th 2007
About The Jazz Session
The Jazz Session is a weekly jazz interview show focusing on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians.
Since its inception in 2007, there have been nearly 200,000 downloads of The Jazz Session episodes. The Jazz Session focuses on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians, along with occasional interviews with producers, authors and others in the jazz world. The show’s mission is to chronicle the lives and opinions of musicians at various levels, from jazz giants such as Sonny Rollins and Chico Hamilton to the most recent generations of jazz musicians, including Don Byron, Kate McGarry, Matt Wilson and Jason Moran. The Jazz Session also tries to bring you closer to musicians from around the world, including Satoko Fujii, Eberhard Weber, Marcin Wasilewski and Francis Jacob.
Photo by Joe Bell
About Jason Crane
Host/Producer
The Jazz Session
Jason Crane is the host and producer of The Jazz Session, the weekly jazz interview show. He was born in 1973 in Lenox, Massachusetts, home of Tanglewood and former home of the famed Music Inn and the Lenox School of Jazz. He began his career as a soprano sax player in jazz, latin jazz and funk bands in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and on Hilton Head Island. Jason also worked as an on-air host for KUAT and KUAZ in Tucson, AZ; as a news announcer for Bloomberg Radio in Tokyo, Japan; and as Tokyo business correspondent for NPR’s Morning Edition; and at WXXI in Rochester, NY. From 2001-2004, Jason was station manager and jazz host at Jazz90.1 in Rochester, NY.
In addition to hosting The Jazz Session, Jason is a regular contributor to All About Jazz and to The Guide, the weekly entertainment magazine of The Island Packet newspaper on Hilton Head Island, SC.
Jason has interviewed hundreds of jazz artists on the radio, online and in print, including: John Abercrombie, Claudia Acuña, Ben Allison, Karrin Allyson, Billy Bang, Gene Bertoncini, Bill Bruford, Marilyn Crispell, Jack DeJohnette, Kahil El’Zabar, Wycliffe Gordon, Benny Green, Fred Hersch, Bill Holman, Charlie Hunter, Norah Jones, Joe Locke, Hugh Masekela, Les McCann, Bobby McFerrin, Kate McGarry, Ben Monder, Jane Monheit, David “Fathead” Newman, Houston Person, Sonny Rollins, Bobby Sanabria, David Sanborn, John Scofield, Tierney Sutton, David Torn, Miroslav Vitous, Cuong Vu, Bobby Watson, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Eberhard Weber, Fred Wesley, Matt Wilson, and Nancy Wilson.
