Jazz in the Afternoon with Mike Jacobs

Wednesdays and Fridays, 1pm - 3pm

For over thirty years, Jazz in the Afternoon has brought you mainstream jazz here on KIOS FM. Every Tuesday-Friday from 1:00-3:00PM Chris Cooke and Mike Jacobs present the wide spectrum of jazz recordings dating back to the "golden age" of jazz in the 1920's through it's evolution in swing, bop, Latin and other styles right up to today's new releases.  We also have a strong commitment to keeping you up to date on the local scene bringing you artists from the Omaha,  Council Bluffs and Lincoln areas and partnering with local non-profit organizations to publicize major jazz concerts in our area with music and interviews. Straight-ahead and in the pocket. Jazz in the Afternoon is your ticket to great jazz music during the weekdays here at KIOS. Have a question or comment? Write us at jazz@kios.org

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Playlist

November 09, 2012

1:06 PM
Dee Dee’s Dance
Artist : Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin
Album : The Prestige Legacy Volume 2: Battles Of The Saxes
Catalog : PRCD-24252-2
Label : Prestige
1:12 PM
And So We Carry On
Artist : Clifton Anderson
Album : And So We Carry On
Catalog : DDRLP1013
Label : Daywood Drive
1:20 PM
True Visions (True Colors)
Artist : Suzanne Pittson
Album : Out Of The Hub
Catalog : VICD 7757
Label : Vineland Records
1:27 PM
Blue Devil Blues
Artist : Walter Page’s Blue Devils
Album : The Real Kansas City of the '20's, 30's and 40's
Catalog : CK 64855
Label : Columbia / Legacy
1:29 PM
How Long Blues
Artist : Count Basie
Album : The Complete Decca Recordings
Catalog : GRD-3-611
Label : Decca
1:32 PM
How High The Moon
Artist : Oscar Peterson
Album : Perfect Peterson: The Best Of The Pablo And Telarc Recordings
Catalog : PACD2-30078-2
Label : Pablo
1:38 PM
Afro Blue
Artist : Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band
Album : Live In Hollywood
Catalog : CPI-34110-02
Label : Concord Picante
1:44 PM
Anat’s Dance
Artist : Anat Cohen
Album : Clarosuro
Catalog : ANZ-0040
Label : Anzic
1:51 PM
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Artist : Margie Notte
Album : Live At Cecil's
Catalog : GRCD-1001
Label : Gnote Records
2:00 PM
Four Others
Artist : Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars
Album : Sunday Jazz A La Lighthouse
Catalog : OJCCD-151-2
Label : Contemporary
2:06 PM
One For Mogie
Artist : The South Florida Jazz Orchestra
Album : Trumpet Summit
Catalog : MAA 1043
Label : Mama Records
2:17 PM
The Virginia Gentleman
Artist : Reggie Quinerly
Album : Music Inspired By Freedman Town
Catalog : 77827
Label : Redefinition Music
2:24 PM
I Didn’t Know About You
Artist : Vanessa Rubin
Album : Language Of Love
Catalog : CD-83465
Label : Telarc
2:29 PM
An Ordinary Thing
Artist : Johnny Hodges and the Elligton Men
Album : The Big Sound
Catalog : PWR 27227
Label : Poll Winners Records
2:32 PM
Tour De Force
Artist : Mike Longo
Album : A Celebration Of Diz And Miles
Catalog : 1033
Label : CAP Records
2:41 PM
My Ideal
Artist : Branford Masalis Quartet
Album : Four MF's Playin' Tunes
Catalog : MARS 0018
Label : Marsalis Music
2:50 PM
Look To The Star
Artist : Abbey Lincoln
Album : Wholly Earth
Catalog : 314 559 538-2
Label : Verve

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4:40 pm
Fri February 10, 2012

Paul Serrato interview 2/10/2012

Mike Jacobs interviews jazz pianist and composer Paul Serrato about his career and his new release, "Alternations: Solo and Collective Expressions".  

(apologies for the sound quality of the second half of  the interview  -MH)

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12:05 pm
Tue February 7, 2012

Jazz CD of The Month: Chick Corea / Eddie Gomez / Paul Motian / Further Explorations / Concord

Another one of those live recordings that lets you feel that you are there.  Further Explorations is a 2 CD celebration of the music of Bill Evans with two of the former band mates of Evans on stage. There's Eddie Gomez, the legendary bassist who was with the Bill Evans trio for eleven years, 1966-1977.  Paul Motian is also on the stage, one of the most influential jazz drummers of the last 50 years who was with Evans from 1959 through 1964 .  Chick Corea, one of the most dynamic and creative pianists in all of jazz since Evans, joins Gomez and Motian.

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12:42 am
Thu January 26, 2012

Mike's Jazz in the Afternoon Top Ten list of 2011

Artist / CD Title / Record Label
Giacomo Gates / The Revolution Will Be Jazz / Savant
Jessica Williams / Freedom Trane / Origin Records
Kurt Elling / The Gate / Concord Jazz
Bobby Sanabria / Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! / Jazzheads
Orrin Evans / Captain Black Big Band / Posi-Tone
Westchester Jazz Orch. / Maiden Voyage Suite / WJO
Tom Harrell / The Time Of The Sun / HighNote
Arturo O'Farrill / 40 Acres And A Burro / Zoho
Judy Wexler / Under A Painted Sky / Jazzed Media
One For All / Invades Vancouver / Cellar Live

Album Reviews
5:49 pm
Tue January 24, 2012

Jazz CD of the Month: Jimmy Owens / The Monk Project/ IPO Recordings

Trumpeter and flugelhornist Jimmy Owens, an NEA Jazz Master, has gathered an outstanding septet to reinterpret the Thelonious Monk Songbook on The Monk Project, just released on IPO Recordings.This is Owens debut as a leader and he has the backing of fellow NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron at the piano, Wycliffe Gordon- trombone, Marcus Strickland- tenor sax, Howard Johnson- tuba and baritone sax, Kenny Davis-bass and Winard Harper-drums.Highlights include a Latin take on Well You Needn't, a gutbucket blues arrangement of Blue Monk and Let's Cool One arranged as a waltz with Owens playin

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