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about Jazz After Hours

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.

September is a month of creativity and inspiration

Win Kurt Rosenwinkel's Ultimate Book of Compositions


Legendary guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel labored 9 years to compile his lifetime of original music in Kurt Rosenwinkel: Ultimate Book of Compositions…the definitive collection capturing his artistic journey. This career-defining volume follows Kurt chronologically with scores for all of his recorded music, proofread and authenticated by the composer himself. The physical book is enhanced by the author’s comments about each composition and album, supported by archival photography and original manuscripts.

Together with a digital-only volume of charts for Rosenwinkel’s unreleased songs, “Kurt Rosenwinkel: Ultimate Book of Compositions” contains over 150 compositions compiled as digital scores and parts in traditional notation and guitar tablature. It is also a first-of-its-kind release, offering editable Sibelius and XML files, allowing musicians to easily create their own arrangements.

Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jazz After Hours will be giving three digital copies of the book and related materials to musicians and composers who submit original recorded music during the month of September.

Listen to Jazz After Hours this month for details and special selections of Kurt’s recorded music.

You can submit your music now. Scroll down to the contact form at the bottom of this page. Tell us about yourself and your music. Upload your original tune and a .pdf about you. One entry per person, please.

Find out more about Kurt Rosenwinkel and his music at Kurt’s web site.

Listen to this month'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.

emerging artists and jazz greats

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 streamed worldwide on the PRX network. We do not accept physical copies. In the interest of everyone’s health, your budget, and the environment, only digital submissions are accepted. We accept 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? Contact us through the contact form at the bottom of this page. We look forward to hearing your new music.

photo of Owen Broder by Adrian H Tillman

Jazz After Hours Featured Video

Paco - new from Anat Cohen's Quartetinho

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

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 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.

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