Our Jazz Shows

Jazz 98.5 FM, WSAX SHOWS

Jazz 98.5 FM wants to be your regular go-to source for listening and enjoying jazz music, whether on the radio or online. We play a wide selection of jazz styles from A to Z and everything in between. We brew jazz just the way you

like it. Watch with your ears.

A tasty blend of great New Releases

of Jazz brewed just the way you like it from Artists you know and from Artists you'll want to know, see and hear live

in concerts presented by Jazz 98.5 FM

throughout the year.

The Morning Brew drive time show wakes you up gently and serves up a moving upbeat mix of great jazz to help you start off your day and guide you through a safe journey to work, school or wherever you're headed.

The Morning Brew

Special Roast edition is your mid morning select blend of varying daily jazz styles that keep you alert, completely focused and promises to get you ready for lunch and the rest of your day, no matter where you are in the world. A different brew blended each day!

Today's and yesterday's Smooth Jazz,

Classic Jazz, Jazz Flavored Classic

R&B, Central Ohio's Homegrown Jazz, and the music of artists from around

the country and from around the world

on the Mid Afternoon Music Showcase.

After a trying day, our Commuter Jazz

show will lift your spirits, relieve your stress and get you through the rush hour traffic. You'll want to delay your arrival

just to enjoy this jazz blend. Pull over,

take a deep breath and relax with Jazz.

If you get a late start on your commute home or have to make a trip to the store for a last minute dinner ingredient and get stuck in traffic, The Evening Roast will get you through the trauma and the drama and home in time for dinner.

After a long day, our Sunset Jazz series will help settle your stomach, with varying daily jazz styles to reduce your heart rate and get you into a relaxing mood, just right for cuddling up, enjoying a special person or beverage. Sit a spell and enjoy Jazz.

Ahhh! A Classic Jazz blend from the

bop of the Bird to the midnight tap of the Monk, from Dizzy to Miles, from Ella to

Peggy, Big band, swing and many more Classic Jazz styles will make you smile

and long for days gone by.

Take a trip, a Jazz Trip featuring the

music that preceded Smooth Jazz and electrified audiences around the world. Miles led the way and Herbie and many others created a sound that's still popular

and performed everywhere you look.

Jazz is a lifestyle choice and Jazz Life features a special popular blend that's ideal for a Saturday afternoon and let's you know when and where to enjoy live music performances happening in and around Central Ohio for the week.

The Local Scene provides all things jazz including many jazz sub-genres from artists that call Ohio their home, whether currently living in Ohio or anywhere else around the country or globe. They're

local and they're awfully good too.

The wonderful Jazz sub-genre that

makes your toes tap and your head bop from the first note to the last and displays the great improvisational skills of the musicians that perform the music.

The inspirational forefather of many

styles of music, Jazz For The Soul delivers a warm Sunday morning

message in song from an inspiring collection of Gospel jazz artists.

The Blues have long been an influence to Jazz and many other music genres. The Blue Chord showcases some of the best Blues and Jazz Blues you'd expect and

it's exceptional here on Jazz 98.5 FM.

How do you like your Jazz ... Over Easy, perhaps with a Classic flavor, Latin, Straight, steamy with the brilliance of an outstanding horn section, perhaps with

a big band touch, with lady vocals or a

mix of Jazz Standards ... Over Easy?

Hear Ye, Hear Ye ... The Sunday Jazz Journal has the book on everything jazz and you'll enjoy this collection from old

to new. Get out your paper and pencils and be sure to take good notes. There may be a test at the end of the chapter.

This mid morning two hour show airs each Monday @ 10am and features the best in great Latin jazz, along with similar jazz styles, and always includes the music of our local homegrown musicians. Cuban, Brazilian, Flamenco and more styles.

This separate evening two hour show airs each Wednesday @ 8pm and features the best in great Latin jazz, along with similar jazz styles, and always includes the music of our local homegrown musicians. Cuban, Brazilian, Flamenco and more styles.

Another late evening two hour show airs each Friday @ 8pm and features the best in Jazz Funk, Soul Jazz, along with Classic R&B Funk, and always includes the music of our local homegrown musicians. Funk is as Funk does.

The Jazz Cafe', the show for lovers of jazz and jazz flavored Classic R&B, features a special love blend of great jazz. Whether you’re just waking up, finishing breakfast, stopping by your favorite eatery or café for tapas or brunch, or heading to or from church

services, we’ve got all your favorite jazz & Classic

R&B selections to remind you of days gone by, or reasons to be thankful or to cheer you up for the rest of the day, right here on you jazz station, Jazz 98.5 FM, WSAX.

The Jazz Matinee welcomes you to the program that brings new life and meaning to the beauty and joy of

this all American music style we call jazz by show-

casing jazz used in movies and television shows. Many people may not realize that many of the movie theme songs are jazz songs, as well as classical music, from westerns to dramas. Discover Jazz in a way you may never thought possible. It's jazz brewed from the big screen and from the medium we know as television.

Classic R&B, the music of the Baby Boomers, along with select Jazz and Jazz Flavored Classic R&B is served up during the Urban Mood show. A two hour show featuring songs you'll remember, as we rewind and turn back the hands of time in your mind, body and soul.

Heading out for a night on the town to enjoy some funky jazz music? The Saturday Jazz Jamm will fill in nicely with a two hour show featuring more in the best of Jazz Funk, Soul Jazz, Nu Jazz, Acid Jazz, along with Classic Jazz Flavored R&B and Funk.

A late night two hour series airs each day @ 10pm and features the best in most Jazz Styles, along with Jazz Flavored Classic R&B, and always includes the music of our local homegrown musicians. Up late? Tune in and enjoy!

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This one hour series occurs each morning @

9am and provides listeners with information and

insight on matters important to our community, residents, growth and sustainability, including

health, finance, legal, police, fire & safety, schools

and neighborhood pride issues.