Jazz After Hours is the longest continuously running, nationally syndicated jazz program on the radio. The program celebrates and nurtures the constantly evolving music that is jazz. Check out our Stations listing to find the broadcast program on your local public radio station or stream the show with our streaming player, weekend nights from 6P to 6A PDT. Between broadcast programs, enjoy a special selection of Jazz After Hours music.
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photo of Owen Broder by Adrian H Tillman
Composed by Tal Mashiach and performed by Anat Cohen’s Quartetinho
Anat Cohen – Clarinet
Tal Mashiach – Guitar & Bass
Vitor Gonçalves – Piano
James Shipp – Percussion
Listen for Paco and more from Quartetinho on Jazz After Hours. To learn more and hear music from Anat’s extensive discography, browse to her website, anatcohen.com
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 2024.
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 in 2023. 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.
