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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 our new streaming channel.

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. During the week, enjoy a special selection of Jazz After Hours music, including classic material from our legendary library. Just click the play button.

Jared Schonig Big Band at The Jazz Gallery

Join Jazz After Hours for a night with one of New York's most exciting large ensembles, full of NYC all-stars.

Friday, January 24, 2025 at the Jazz Gallery, NYC
Two sets @ 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM
The band:
Andrew Gould, alto saxophone
Charles Pillow, alto saxophone
Ben Kono, tenor saxophone
Jason Rigby, tenor saxophone
Carl Maraghi, baritone saxophone
Tony Kadleck, trumpet
Brian Pareschi, trumpet
Dave Adewumi, trumpet
Dave Smith, trumpet
Michael Davis, trombone
Alan Ferber, trombone
Jen Krupa, trombone
Reginald Chapman, bass trombone
Pete McCann, guitar
Martha Kato, piano
Luques Curtis, bass
Jared Schonig, drums/compositions

Jamie Baum Quartet West Coast Tour 2025

Jazz After Hours listeners on the West Coast have 5 opportunities this month to see the Jamie Baum Quartet in concert at these venues.

Jamie Baum West Coast Tour 2025

Wednesday, January 22nd at 8pm
Arcata Playhouse, Arcata CA
Presented by the Redwood Jazz Alliance
Tickets & Information: https://www.redwoodjazzalliance.org

Thursday, January 23rd at 7 & 8:30pm
Kuumbwa Jazz, Santa Cruz, CA
Tickets & Information: https://www.kuumbwajazz.org

Friday, January 24th at 7 & 8:30pm
SFJazz, San Francisco, CA
Tickets & Information: https://www.sfjazz.org/

Saturday, January 25th at 5:30pm & 7pm
Private Concert, San Luis Obispo, CA

Sunday, January 26th at 4:30pm & 6pm
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, CA
Tickets & Information: https://bachddsoc.org

Jazz After Hours invites you to enjoy a night of jazz in one of our fave LA hangs, Sam First.

Sam First is a unique venue in the City of Angels, dedicated to supporting and expanding jazz as a musical form and tradition. Their mission is to provide a vibrant center for regional, national, and international jazz musicians and to foster the growth and engagement of the jazz community in Los Angeles. Easy to get to if you live in LA, even easier if you’re traveling through LAX. The club is just a short walk from the airport. For tickets and information, visit Sam First online and swing by the club soon for great music, food, and drink.

Philadelphia is one great jazz town. The center of that vibrant scene is Chris' Jazz Cafe.

Chris’ Jazz Café is an institution in a city known for revered jazz music and musicians. It’s the longest continuously operating jazz club in the history of Philadelphia and was named one of the “100 Great Venues Around the World to Hear Jazz” by DownBeat magazine. With live performances five nights a week, the venue hosts more than 400 shows a year. As they say at the club, “every night, something tight.” Jazz After Hours highly recommends Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia.

When in Baltimore, the sound of today's jazz can be found at the Keystone Korner.

The mission at Keystone Korner since its origins in San Francisco in the 70s has always been to provide the best music in the world for the most affordable prices in the most loving environment. That is still the club’s goal at Keystone Korner Baltimore. Phenomenal jazz music presented in a relaxed and most welcoming setting, accompanied by tasty food and drink. That’s the Keystone Korner today.

With all due respect...

Baritone saxophonist and educator Claire Daly ~ February 26, 1958 – October 22, 2024

photo by Andrew Hurlbut

With all due respect...

Drummer Anthony Pinciotti ~ July 20th, 1975 - December 24th, 2024

photo by Alessandra Zani

With all due respect...

Pianist Martial Solal ~ August 23rd, 1927 - December 12th, 2024

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 living 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

Jelly Roll's Living Room by Randal Despommier
Randal Despommier Quartet 
Randal Despommier – Alto Saxophone
Jason Yeager – Piano
Aaron Holthus – Bass
Rodrigo Recabarren – Drums
 
Captured April 5th, 2024 at Scandinavian House, New York City
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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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