Jazz radio stations

This page collects 118 live radio stations playing jazz, from 12 countries. The busiest are SomaFM Secret Agent (128k MP3), Bossa Jazz Brasil, RADIO NOVA and J-Club Club Bandstand. Each stream was checked before publishing, so the stations here actually play.

Most jazz stations come from France (13), Switzerland (7), Hungary (6), Germany (5), The Netherlands (5) and Greece (5). They broadcast mainly in english, french and spanish. Stations tagged jazz often carry related tags too — most commonly smooth jazz, rock, pop and blues — so the same station may appear on several genre pages.

41 of these stations stream at 192 kbps or better, the highest being Distorsion FM FLAC at 1200 kbps, which is worth choosing if you are listening on speakers rather than a phone. By format the mix is MP3 (82), AAC (18) and AAC+ (15).

Listening to jazz from different countries is one of the more interesting things internet radio makes possible: the same genre is programmed differently by a station in France than by one in Switzerland, from the songs chosen to how much talking sits between them.

Nothing is needed beyond the browser — no app, no account, no payment. Press play on any jazz station and it starts. The heart icon saves a station to your favourites, kept in your own browser and shown at the top of every page here. For stations that broadcast it, the track currently playing appears in the player at the bottom of the screen.