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Last Call to move to 9pm Saturday nights starting September 5th

Starting September 5th, The Last Call, hosted by Chris Cooke on KIOS-FM, will be airing at an earlier time on Saturday nights.

The program will air Saturday nights at 9pm-11pm.

Show host Chris Cooke says this will offer the program a new opportunity to connect with listeners earlier in the evening. The program will continue to feature today's finest adventuresome jazz recordings as well as the legends in forward looking jazz music such as Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, David Liebman, Albert Ayler, Patricia Barber, Chick Corea, Maceo Parker, and many others.

The Last Call started on KIOS in January 1996. Chris Cooke has been the host for this late night jazz program since its inception.  It is one of the few radio programs that present the very best of adventuresome jazz-music which generally falls outside of the mainstream of the genre, but includes some of the most creative and innovative music ever recorded by musicians anywhere. The program's host brings with him several decades of hosting experience and insight into jazz music as he steps into the studio to host each program.

For more information you may visit https://www.kios.org/programs/last-call

Chris Cooke has been a voice on radio in Omaha since 1988. While at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, he studied radio broadcasting, history and religion. Working at KVNO-FM, Cooke hosted a weekend adventuresome jazz show on the station in addition to duties as an on-air announcer on overnights, weekends and holidays. He also worked at KBLZ (the then student-run radio station) as well as KYNE-TV, and The Gateway as a reporter.
In November 1992, Cooke signed on at KIOS-FM and has been there ever since. He has hosted the Tuesday and Thursday editions of Jazz in the Afternoon since 1996 and has also hosted Last Call since that year. A long time fan of jazz music, Cooke enjoys talking with the musicians who make jazz music. He has interviewed Horace Silver, Roy Haynes, Wayne Shorter, David Liebman, Airto Moreira, Jessica Williams and Karrin Allyson, to name a few. While not at the station Cooke maintains a web design consultancy business that has served a number of non-profit and music clients for over 20 years.
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