An Interview with Madeleine Peyroux

KIOS | By Chris Cooke

Published September 23, 2021 at 5:21 PM CDT

Madeleine Peyroux will appear at Holland Performing Arts Center, September 29th at 7:30pm, in support of her newly reissued Careless Love album. Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris, which now can be heard in her intimate, laidback style of folk-pop songwriting coupled with spellbinding jazz. She was discovered by a talent agent from Atlantic Records, which released her debut album, Dreamland.
Her next album, Careless Love, was released by Rounder Records and produced by Larry Klein. Careless Love was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after having sold half a million copies. She won Best International Jazz Artist at the BBC Jazz Awards in 2007.
Jazz in the Afternoon host Chris Cooke spoke with Madeline Peyroux over the phone recently. Click on the link for the interview.

Chris Cooke

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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