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Jayne Sanchez

Jayne Sanchez programs the Jazz Oasis on KCSM FM 91 in San Mateo California.

About Me

Jayne has hosted the Jazz Oasis on KCSM FM 91 since 1994. Hosting the Jazz Oasis requires selecting the content, programming the music, board operations and live on-air announcing. Jayne’s program explores music in the ballad form and in the mid-tempo range. She searches for pieces that have polytonality, melodic improvisations, inventive rhythmic lines and creative arrangements. She can be found every Monday and Wednesday evening from 6 to 9pm PST. In 1996, she received the Bonnie Chastain Scholarship award at the College of San Mateo for her academic accomplishments. While earning her degree there, Jayne was invited to be on the KCSM FM planning committee as a student representative to address the College District’s Board of Directors. In 1997, she was featured in a newspaper ad campaign to promote the Broadcasting programs at the College of San Mateo. Her interest in jazz education led her to help fund The Prominence Project, a non-profit organization that promotes the arts in education for schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked for several years with the Jazzschool in Berkeley as it’s publicist and also worked with neighboring restaurant and music venue, downtown Restaurant. Jayne became a Board Member and 2 year President of the Golden Gate Chapter of the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT). She produced programs such as “Whose Stories Do Journalists Tell?” with Professor Ted Glasser of Stanford University’s Journalism and Communications Departments, Meet the Pro’s Career Fair, and Behind the Scenes: Bay Area Women Producers, and the Annual Awards luncheon celebrating talent from all areas of Broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2005, Jayne spearheaded a program in conjunction with the Jazzschool in Berkeley and the Portland Jazz Festival to put instruments back in the hands of displaced New Orleans musicians after Hurricane Katrina. She wrote, promoted, collected, and hand delivered over $20,000 worth of donated instruments to Portland Jazz Festival personnel where it was distributed amongst a group of musicians that were had been relocated, and sponsored by the Portland Jazz Festival for well over 3 months in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Jazzschool (located in Berkeley, CA)