Internet Radio Show: Jazz After Hours

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. Like the last set at a jazz club, the mood is mellow but not without surprises. New and well-established jazz artists regularly drop in for a chat and the music ranges from latest releases to jazz classics. There's also news of tours, festivals and clubs and 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 and many others who have been guests on Jazz After Hours. The program was again named one of the top syndicated jazz programs by the JazzTimes Readers Poll in 2002 and 2003, and Jim was nominated again in 2003 for the Willis Connover/Marian McPartland Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Broadcasting by the Jazz Journalists Association. The show is produced at Hatchcover Productions in Seattle and distributed by Public Radio International to public radio stations from Midnight to 7 a.m. Eastern Time. It reaches an international audience via more than a dozen stations who stream their programs to the internet.

Not a nightowl? Some listeners have told us how 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. If you have questions about the program send email to jim@jazzafterhours.org