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Jazz After Hours is a late night jazz radio show hosted by Jim Wilke heard Friday and Saturday nights across the U.S. and parts of Canada since 1984. Like the last set at a jazz club, the mood is mellow but not without surprises.  New and well-established jazz artists may drop in for a chat, and the music ranges from latest releases to jazz classics. There's news of tours, festivals and clubs - the best places to hear live jazz.

Jim's easy-going presentation has won the praise of jazz stars Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Max Roach, Joe Henderson, Milt Jackson, Joshua Redman, Billy Taylor, Maria Schneider, Phil Woods and many others who have been guests on Jazz After Hours.  

Jim has been nominated again this year for the Willis Conover/ Marian McPartland Award for Jazz Broadcasting by the Jazz Journalists Association. The JJA Awards Party will be at the Blue Note In NYC on June 20.  Jazz After Hours has also frequently been named one of the top national jazz radio programs by the JazzTimes Readers Poll, and also by the JazzTimes Critics Poll for the last two years.

The show is produced at Hatchcover Productions in Seattle and distributed by Public Radio International starting at Midnight Eastern Time each weekend.  It also reaches an international audience via many US stations who also stream the program to the internet. For best results listen when broadcast but if you're not a nightowl, timeshift the show to conform to your schedule. Here's an easy way to do it. 

Enjoy exploring our website and if you have questions about the program not answered here, send email to Jim.  We never sell or trade the names of people who write us. If you wish to contact us, here's the address and you know what to do:  jim (at) jazzafterhours (dot) org   We enjoy hearing from you!

Travel photos from Ireland, Mexico, France, Italy and Spain are at about Jim Wilke.

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Photo by Steve Korn     


Site design by Susan Pascal

Here's an easy way to purchase music featured on this program and provide financial support as well.  Just click the amazon.com logo to order.   Gift certificates are also available.

 

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