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Jazz From Studio One Returns Thursday at 8:00PM !

Jazz From Studio One will return to KIOS as a once a month jazz special beginning Thursday night at 8:00.

The specials will be heard once a month through May on the first Thursday of every month.

For the January debut, your host will be Alec Rome, a junior at Omaha Central High School and a student at the Omaha Public Schools Career Center.

Alec will host an hour of some of the notable jazz records of 1957 including music from Miles Davis , Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane and much more.

Mike Jacobs has been with KIOS since 1988 while attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Mike began his career at KIOS working weekends acting as local host for NPR’s Weekend Edition. He also hosted Morning Edition from 1990-1996. Mike began hosting the weekly blues program “Blues in the Afternoon” in October 1994 and took on the responsibilities of jazz programming and maintaining the music library in 1996. He has held the position of Music Director since 2002. In addition to hosting “Jazz in the Afternoon” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, Mike also helps with assembling music for “Jazz From Studio One” hosted by the advanced radio students at the Omaha Public Schools Career Center. Mike is an Omaha native and graduated from Technical High School in 1984.