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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 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 and many others who have been guests on Jazz After Hours. The program is regularly named one of the top four national jazz radio programs by the JazzTimes Readers Poll (thanks JT readers!) and Jim has been nominated numerous times for the Willis Conover/Marian McPartland Award for Excellence in Jazz Broadcasting by the Jazz Journalists Association.

The show is produced at Hatchcover Productions in Seattle and distributed by Public Radio International from Midnight to 7 a.m. Eastern Time each weekend.  It also reaches an international audience via many US stations who also stream the program to the internet.

Not a nightowl? Some listeners tell us they timeshift the show to conform to their schedule. If you’d like to know how they do it, send us an email. Enjoy exploring our website, and if you have questions about the program not answered here, send email to Jim. 

We sincerely regret that web bots mined our good name and used it for spam making it necessary to remove the email link. If you received spam from our address, we didn't send it. 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  

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(Travel photos have moved to "about Jim Wilke".)

     


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