Created on February 19th 2007
About The Jazz Session
The Jazz Session is an online jazz interview show focusing on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians.
Since its inception in 2007, there have been more than 450,000 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 who make creative improvised music, without regard to artificial genres or labels. The Jazz Session is presented by All About Jazz, the Web’s leading source for jazz news, reviews, mp3 downloads and more. Every episode of the show is available in iTunes and right here on this Web site.
About Jason Crane
Host/Producer
The Jazz Session
Photo by Joe Bell
Jason Crane is the host and producer of The Jazz Session, the online 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; 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’s first collection of poetry, Unexpected Sunlight, is forthcoming in 2010 from FootHills Publishing. You’ll find Jason’s poetry and other observations at jasoncrane.org.
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.
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