Jason Crane is an American podcaster, writer, radio broadcaster, poet, activist, and musician.
13 Facts About Jason Crane
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Jason Crane worked professionally as a soprano saxophonist in Arizona; Hilton Head, South Carolina; and Japan and as a union organizer.
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In 2001, Jason Crane served as operations producer of WXXI, the AM public radio affiliate serving the Rochester, New York area.
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Jason Crane says he left Jazz 90.1 to take a break from public life and work as a stay-at-home dad to his newborn son.
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In 2005 he took on a weekly gig hosting his own political show, The Jason Crane Show, on NewsTalk 950 WROC-AM in Rochester.
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In 2007 while living in Rochester, Jason Crane created The Jazz Session, which was to become a long-running podcast featuring new interviews with jazz musicians.
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Jason Crane later worked as a DJ in State College for indie-rock station WFEQ The Freq, continuing through that station's switch to the country-music-format Big Froggy WFGE in 2019 and leaving soon after.
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Jason Crane stated that in 2020, after having moved back to Tucson, his romantic partnership ended resulting in his decision to begin a nomadic period of van life for which he created an Instagram series called Vanarchism.
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In 2023 Jason Crane began working as program director and afternoon host for WCNR in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Jason Crane has been an advocate for veganism and cycling, and has used The Jazz Session to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community.
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Jason Crane won the most write-in votes from the combined State College precincts with no other official candidate on the ballot.
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In 2020, Jason Crane published a series of short podcast episodes called 3 Minutes of Buddhism which is used as an online educational tool for Northeast Religious Resources in the United Kingdom.
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Jason Crane graduated high school in 1991 from Canandaigua Academy, then traveled to Japan as an exchange student sponsored by Rotary International.