Jazz Nation Radio 108.5

"Jazz from a time long before it became elevator music."

— GTA IV Website

Jazz Nation Radio (JNR) is a radio station featured in Grand Theft Auto IV that plays classic and cool jazz.

Description

The station is hosted by Jazz musician Roy Haynes. It does not reappear in Episodes from Liberty City and is instead replaced by Self-Actualization FM.

In the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, JNR, along with all other GTA IV exclusive radio stations, appears in The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony.

This is the favourite radio station of Jimmy Pegorino and Phil Bell.

Tracklist

Deleted songs

It is possible that this station was due to appear in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, as the "American.gxt" data file for The Lost and Damned lists the following song:

• Billie Holiday - "Fine and Mellow" (1939)

Appearances

Radio Station

• The station plays at the following locations:
  • Lobby of the Majestic Hotel
  • Perseus
  • Jimmy Pegorino's House
  • Frickie Van Hardenburg's yacht
  • TW@ internet cafe in North Holland, Algonquin (replaced with Self-Actualization FM in ELFC)
  • Drusilla's during cutscenes for Ray Boccino (replaced with Self-Actualization FM in The Lost and Damned)

Individual Songs

• "St. Thomas" by Sonny Rollins is often played by buskers throughout the city. If the player donates enough money to them, they will eventually receive the song as a ringtone for their cellphone.
• "Move" by Miles Davis is featured in the GTA IV Gamestop TV Commercial.

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Trivia

• An advertisement for Jazz Nation Radio claims that it is "at the end of the dial". However, K109 The Studio has a higher frequency.

See Also

• Radio Espantoso, a radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories which plays Latin Jazz.
• Fusion FM - A radio station in Grand Theft Auto IV which plays Jazz Fusion.

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