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.

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PBS Turns 45 - Celebrate with PBS DJs

Sat 21 Dec 2024
PBS Events

Celebrate 45 years of PBS radio on the station's actual 45th anniversary! 

Top Feature Albums of 2024

Mon 16 Dec 2024 to Sun 22 Dec 2024
PBS News

It’s not unreasonable to argue, as a great philosopher once has, that we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. We take this adage fairly seriously here at PBS. We don’t waste time, and we take every opportunity to move to the beat and to look for hope in the most surprising and unlikely places.

SO.Crates - Be​-​Sides and Rarities

Mon 9 Dec 2024 to Sun 15 Dec 2024
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Be-Sides and Rarities, the latest release from Australian hip-hop/neo soul duo SO.Crates.

SO.Crates are a boom-bap prayer sent live and direct from the heart of two of the culture’s most committed students. With a legacy built on releasing a steady flow of cold-crush records and delivering uplifting live performances to the party people, SO.Crates prove that hip-hop’s golden era is not a lost date in time, but a foundational state of mind.

Watch: Jaubi Studio 5 Live

Tue 3 Dec 2024
Studio 5 Live

Pakistani instrumental outfit Jaubi traverse Hindustani ragas and spiritual jazz seemingly at will. Hailing from Lahore, Pakistan, Jaubi are composed of Ali Riaz Baqar (guitar and composer), Zohaib Hassan Khan (sarangi) and Kashif Ali Dhani (tablas and percussion). The looseness of the band’s title also functions as the group’s guiding principle: their mission is to create whatever sounds and feels good.

E. Bobby G. - Bobby Business

Mon 2 Dec 2024 to Sun 8 Dec 2024
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Bobby Business, the new sophomore album by organist and synthesist E. Bobby G.

The Breakfast Spread live from Fed Square

Thu 28 Nov 2024
PBS Events

Listen back to The Breakfast Spread live from Fed Square here!

Join PBS 106.7FM for a special, one-off broadcast of The Breakfast Spread with Milo Eastwood. 

Bumpy & Erica Tucceri live at the 2024 Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Tue 26 Nov 2024 to Mon 30 Dec 2024
PBS News

PBS was lucky to feature two world premiere broadcasts of recordings made at the 2024 Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF). On Tuesday November 26 Mike Gurrieri broadcasted the very personal suite Tooni from MIJF First Nations artist-in-residence Bumpy. Tooni traces Bumpy’s learnings of language and reflects on her travels on Noongar Boodja, tracing the footsteps of her family and Elders.

La Descarga - Fiesta de Corazón

Mon 25 Nov 2024 to Sun 1 Dec 2024
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Fiesta de Corazón, the debut album by dynamic Afro-Latin-Australian band La Descarga.

Balaclava Boogie 2024

Fri 22 Nov 2024 to Sun 24 Nov 2024
PBS Presents

Balaclava Boogie takes over the Carlisle Street precinct November 22-24.

MPavilion Season 11 Opening Night

Thu 21 Nov 2024
PBS Events

Come and experience the new hum happening in Tadao Ando’s iconic pavilion, as we celebrate the launch of Season 11 at MPavilion, Thursday November 21.

BOOKED OUT - Click here to join the waitlist.

It’s opening night, and PBS has collaborated with MPavilion to help kick things off with a night of garden partying and sound-art immersion.