Jazz through the night

Billy Hart at SMOKE/NYC
photo by Jimmy and Dena Katz

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Emerging jazz artists

David Kaneko at B-Flat Jazz Club/Tokyo
photo by Tsubasa Fujikawa Berg

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Living jazz greats

Dave Holland and John Abercrombie
photo by Roberto Cifarelli

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The freshest new jazz

Ariane Racicot
photo by Yves Couillard

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Listen to the future of jazz

Currently, Jazz After Hours is not streaming. We will be back streaming online Friday and Saturday nights at 6P Pacific for 12 hours each night.

Please check back then. We have some great new programming planned for our next show. We hope you will connect with us then.

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Jazz After Hours has a rich and storied 40 year history on public radio, but we are not about the past. Our program celebrates the new, while honoring and recognizing the roots of this music. We nurture the constant evolution of jazz and look to its future. You can hear that future in our broadcasts and now on our new streaming feature.

Browse to our Stations listing to find the program on your local public radio station. Or stream the show, weekend nights from 6P to 6A Pacific. Just click the play button.

The future of jazz is being created right now by today’s living jazz musicians. We handpick a unique cross-section of that new music for you every week.

"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2026 Gilmore International Piano Festival

Join Jazz After Hours for North America's Largest Gathering of Keyboard Artists, April 30 - May 10

Sullivan Fortner, winner of The Gilmore’s 2026 Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award, opens and closes the Festival, April 30 and May 10.

Duo piano collaborations:
Brad Mehldau and 2010 Gilmore Artist Kirill Gerstein – May 4
Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes – May 7
Vocalists:
Kandace Springs – May 5
Nicole Zuraitis – May 7 & 8
The Gilmore’s 2026 Bell Young Jazz Artists:
Esteban Castro and Tyler Bullock – May 5 & 6
Artemis – May 8
Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet – May 9
Trios:
Cyrus Chestnut – May 2
Yes! – May 7 & 8
Sullivan Fortner, Cécile McLorin Salvant & Ambrose Akinmusire – May 10

Visit Gilmore.org/education to learn more.

photo of Sullivan Fortner by Sabrina Santiago

At the center of Chicago's thriving scene...Winter's Jazz Club, just west of Navy Pier

Featuring an intimate, listening room setting and top shelf
regional and national jazz performers, Winter’s promises a stylish but relaxed night out on the town. Live jazz five nights a week, accompanied by a delicious menu of classic and original beverages, a night enjoying live music in Chicago has to include Winter’s Jazz Club.

“You blows who you is.” — Louis Armstrong

With all due respect...

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins ~ 7 September 1930 – 25 May 2026

photo by Jordi Vidal/Getty Images

With all due respect...

Multi-instrumentalist Ken Peplowski ~ 23 May 1959 – 2 February 2026

photo by Stephen Pariser

Listen to this week's Jazz After Hours

Want to go deeper? Looking for a past show you really liked? Maybe you want to binge listen to Jazz After Hours or take us with you on your mobile device during the week. Check out our archive. Every show from 2022 through 2024 is now available to stream and we are currently filling in the archive with shows from prior years! Check back soon.

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. Musicians paint their pictures on silence.” — Leopold Stokowski

Your music on Jazz After Hours

Are you a jazz musician with a new record you want the world to hear? Jazz After Hours accepts submissions of new jazz for airplay. No record promoter is required to have your music considered. The only requirements: quality, musicianship and originality. Our mission is to support and encourage the creation of fresh new jazz. Your new music could be broadcast and/or streamed worldwide.

We do not accept physical copies. Only digital submissions are accepted. Submit studio quality recordings, in .wav, .mp3, .mp4, or .aiff file formats, delivered by download. Files must be properly named and accompanied by a one-sheet of information about you and your music.

Questions? Please contact us through the contact form at the bottom of this page. We look forward to hearing your new music.

Jazz After Hours Featured Video

Ron Carter and Yotam Silberstein — official studio recording of Blues for Brother Malone at Van Gelder's Studio in NJ
December 4, 2025

Ron Carter, bass
Yotam Silberstein, guitar

Composition by Yotam Silberstein
Released on JoJo Records
Recorded on December 4, 2025

Programming philosophy

Jazz is yours to discover

With great affection and all due respect to its storied history and rich tradition, we think jazz music was never meant to be bronzed and put on a shelf. Captured, remembered, studied, even lionized, but not frozen in time. Jazz didn’t stop being great in 1947 or 1955 or 1968 or 1976. It’s pretty great in 2026.



Name a name, anyone in the pantheon of jazz greats. To a person, they once were young, feisty, likely impertinent. They sought to break the mold; dared to make mistakes; challenged the elders and the music that came before. That’s what jazz musicians do.



Each of those jazz musicians once had their first gig. Their first recording session. Their first breakthrough moment and their first bad review. And believe it or not, there was a joyful moment when someone played their music on the radio for the first time. For some hard-working musician, that happens almost every week on Jazz After Hours.

The point being … jazz ain’t over. Not even close.

Record stores come and record stores go. Most of them are long gone. Radio stations do the same. Technology changes, and while it closes some doors it opens many others. The critics and whiners are going to beat their chests and find every possible way to make a buck with a tired story about the death of jazz. People who haven’t bought a jazz record in 40 years are going to try to convince you that was the last great jazz. It wasn’t.

 Jazz is alive and very entertaining right now. We invite you to listen to what we play on Jazz After Hours and judge for yourself. 

These are the musicians you’ll be talking about for the next 20 or 30 years. They’re playing music today that is the future of jazz. It’s new, it’s fresh and it’s damn good. Don’t take our word for it. Listen each week on public radio. This is your discovery process.

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    Jazz After Hours is heard weekly on public radio across America and streaming directly from our website.
    Thank you to the countless musicians around the world playing jazz who make it possible.

    Hour 1

    Josh Lawrence – Old City Blues – Philly Twisted – Posi-Tone Records

    Dave Slonaker Big Band – 3rd and Four – Shifty Paradigms – Origin Records

    Kevin Fort & Andy Brown – Morning Light – Chiaroscuro – JeruJazz Records

    Allan Harris – I'm Hooked On You – Swingin' Love Songs – Love Productions Records

    Ella Grace – Dandelion – Figments – Shifting Paradigm Records

    Doug MacDonald Trio – Yesterdays – Live in Beverly Hills – Dmac Music

    Ryan Keberle's Collectiv do Brasil – Celestial Showers – Here Is Donato – Alternate Side Records

    Christian Finger – Dawn Dream – Zeit Zirkel – Finger Music

    Mike Jones – Destination Moon – Mike Jones With Strings – Capri Records

    Hour 2

    Maria Schneider – American Crow – American Crow – ArtistShare

    Dan Siegel – Give or Take – Resolution – Dan Siegel Music

    Miki Yamanaka – Tucson – Breathe – Cellar Music Group

    Caesar Frazier – Blues March – Alive ~ One Night In Savannah – Track Merchant Records

    Mike DiRubbo – One For Mabes – Way Out Northwest – Cellar Music

    Amina Figarova – Sapphire Veil – Flying High Above – AmFi Records

    Brian Claxton – There Is Always Beauty – Here Goes Nothing – self released

    Kemuel Roig – Junk – Both Sides Now – Life In Music

    Hour 3

    David Sneider – Tim and Bim – Introducing – Cellar Music

    Matt Dwonszyk and Friends – It Never Comes – Donny Time ~ The Music of Don Depalma – TRCC

    Benny Green – Hi~Fly – Renovation – Sunnyside Records

    Marius Neset and the Bergen Big Band – Time to Breathe... – Time to Live – ACT

    Melissa Aldana – Ritual – Echoes Of The Inner Prophet – Blue Note

    Azar Lawrence – Atlantis – Turn the Music Up – Trazar Records

    Jim Rotondi & Dena DeRose – Walkin' My Baby Back Home – Out of the Past – Cellar Music

    Zeju Zheng – At the Corner – A Mind in Motion – Shifting Paradigm Records

    Alejandro Falcón – Falcon's Blues – Falcón in Blue – Dot Time Records

    Hour 4

    Dave Adewumi – The Flame Beneath The Silence – The Flame Beneath The Silence – Giant Step Arts

    Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden – No Moon At All – Jasmine – ECM Records

    Roni Ben-Hur – Lo Que es Del Cesar – Abriendo Puertas – Dot Time Records

    Cecile McLorin Salvant – Lush Life – With Every Breath I Take – Nonesuch Records

    Skúli Sverrisson with Bill Frisell – A Little Closer – For All Your Flowers – Newvelle Records

    Dwayne Dolphin – St. Thomas – Let the Music Play – Imani Records

    Jocelyn Gould – The Sweetest Sounds – So Delighted – La Reserve

    Dave Bass – Try A Little Tenderness – Trio Nuevo Vol 3 – Tiger Turn

    Daniel Sky – Blooming Love – Songs for the World – Adhyâropa Records

    Brad Goode Quintet featuring Ernie Watts – Live Your Dream – Live Your Dream~Live at North Street Cabaret – Origin Records

    John Chin – The Shimmering Veil – Journey Of Han – Jinsy Music