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KIOS will honor Marian McPartland, jazz pianist and longtime host of NPR's Piano Jazz with a one-hour special edition of Piano Jazz Friday at 2:00PM. The program will re-air on Saturday at 7:00PM.

The tribute will be hosted by Marian's longtime friend Murray Horowitz and will feature Marian's compositions and collaborations with Sarah Vaughan, Karrin Allyson, Elvis Costello and many more.

Marian McPartland died on Tuesday at her home in Port Washington, N.Y. She was 95.

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Alpha Sigma Nu Annual Lecture – Betsy Fischer Martin, Senior Executive Producer of NBC’s Meet the Press, and Managing Editor for NBC News’ Political Programming “Meeting the Press: Headlines and History from the Longest Running Television Program”

CENTER FOR FAITH STUDIES LECTURE – Douglas Blackmon, author of “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black American from the Civil War to World War II”, and Chairman of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Forum “Slavery by Another Name”

Certainly one of the most potent dates in recent years by some of the today's top Chicago avant-garde players. Frank Rosaly leads this group of top notch instrumentalists in a program of dense rhythm and unusual musical conversations.

Jazz legend George Duke, a visionary keyboardist, producer, composer and arranger, died in Los Angeles on Monday. He was 67.

In a career spanning nearly 50 years, the Grammy-winning artist collaborated with Don Ellis, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson, Anita Baker, and many others.

As a child, George Duke watched a performance by Duke Ellington that inspired a his own trajectory as world-renowned keyboard artist. He released more than 40 albums and was a successful producer and bandleader, hitting gold with a megahit 1977 record, Reach For It .

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Omaha Chief of Police Todd Schmaderer “First Year as Chief of Police”

Etienne Charles is a trumpeter from Trinidad whose three previous albums have featured calypso music as interpreted through an engaging post-bop focus. Charles continues to grow as an artist as evidenced on his latest, Creole Soul.  His latest recording reflects his interest in Carribean music and the music of New Orleans.

This weekend KIOS will present NPR Music's web-only stream of the Newport Jazz Festival. On August 3rd and 4th from 10:00AM to 6:30PM central time many of today's top performers will hit the jazz festival stage, including the Wayne Shorter Quartet with special guest Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, Marcus Miller, Robert Glasper, Dizzy Gillespie Big Band with Paquito D'Rivera.
For the complete lineup you may visit
http://www.kios.org/live-event/newport-jazz-festival

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – “The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Legacy of Vatican II: The Constitution of the Church (Lumen Gentium)”, Part 3 – Wendy Wright, Professor of Theology and holder of the John C. Kenefick Chair in the Humanities at Creighton University “Mother, Sister, Queen: Mary and the Second Vatican Council”

DURHAM MUSEUM LECTURE – Linda Duckworth, Past-President of the League of Women Voters of Nebraska, and currently Chairman of the League of Women Voters Nominating Committee “Lady Arrested for Voting!: Susan B. Anthony – The Woman Who Changed the Mind of the Nation”