Jazz

PBS has been a welcome home to jazz since its inception. With contemporary jazz, swing, Latin, fusion, lounge, free and vocal jazz on offer throughout the week, you’ll find jazz for every taste on PBS.

News

New Year, New Roster on PBS!

Thu 1 Jan 2026 to Sat 31 Jan 2026
PBS News

In January PBS listeners can expect to hear a few tweaks to our weekly programming roster, and we also welcome a brand new show to the airwaves.

After 26 years on-air, Peter and Gary wind up their epic Thursday night show Screaming Symphony on January 1, 2026, allowing for some movement across the grid and some fresh sounds for PBS listeners.

Top Feature Albums of 2025

Mon 22 Dec 2025 to Sun 28 Dec 2025
Feature Sounds

Each week throughout the year, we select one new outstanding album to feature across our platforms as a way of celebrating music that is authentic, original and pure. In 2025, we featured dozens of exceptional albums across a variety of genres that tap into various musical traditions from different corners of the world. Every one of these albums tells a profound story in its own voice, speaking directly to the soul of those willing to listen.

Top Tracks of the Week

Mon 15 Dec 2025 to Sun 21 Dec 2025
Feature Sounds

As we start to wrap up for the year - and before publishing 2025's top ten feature albums next week - we wanted to share with you ten new tracks that speak to the breadth of our sound and tap into the various musical traditions that we love. With music from Naarm to Damascus to Delhi, from liquid drum n bass and soul, to prog, folk and rock n roll, we sincerely hope you enjoy these fabulous selections.

Gorillaz - 'Damascus' feat. Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey

Jumpin’ The Blues Allstars - Live On The Radio Vol.1

Mon 8 Dec 2025 to Sun 14 Dec 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Live On The Radio Vol.1, the exclusive album from Jumpin’ The Blues Allstars.

GODTET + The Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Mon 1 Dec 2025 to Sun 7 Dec 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self titled album from GODTET + The Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

At once bold and nuanced, this album explores the friction between improvisation and orchestration. Where the orchestra is anchored in fully composed material, GODTET remains free – navigating the work's harmonic architecture with instinct and spontaneity. Structures are fixed, but expression is fluid.

Watch: The Breakfast Spread LIVE from Fed Square

Thu 27 Nov 2025
PBS Events

Listen back to a special live broadcast of The Breakfast Spread at Fed Square, 6am to 9am Thursday November 27, 2025.  

Check out a clip of SHOUSE performing 'Love Tonight' live below:

Black Jesus eXperience - Time Telling

Mon 24 Nov 2025 to Sun 30 Nov 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Time Telling, the evocative new album from Black Jesus eXperience.

Grooving, richly diverse and truth seeking, Time Telling explores the fragility of life, the preciousness of time and the importance of hope, love, joy and community. 

Birdsnake - Biofilter

Mon 17 Nov 2025 to Sun 23 Nov 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Biofilter, the debut album from synth ambassadors Birdsnake.

Town Folk Festival 2025

Sat 15 Nov 2025
PBS Presents

Town Folk Festival returns to Djaara/Castlemaine on Saturday November 15 with yet another impressive lineup of local and international music. Led by Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, the group return to Australia with their much-celebrated catalogue of indie anthems as well as 2025’s career-defining self-titled album.

screensaver - Three Lens Approach

Mon 10 Nov 2025 to Sun 16 Nov 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Three Lens Approach, the third album from Naarm/Melbourne five-piece screensaver.