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Interviews with leading musicians on today's scene presented by KIOS music hosts.

An Interview with Grace Kelly

Jazz in the Afternoon host Chris Cooke recently interviewed saxophonist Grace Kelly over the phone. In a wide-ranging interview, Kelly discussed her career as a singer-songwriter-composer and bandleader. Incredibly talented at an early age, she was part of the house band for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", and appeared in the documentary "Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story" and the Emmy nominated series "Bosch".

Kelly will perform at the Holland Music Club in Omaha on Friday night, April 14 at 7:30pm. The saxophonist has performed all over the world at concerts and jazz festivals and recorded with the legends of jazz such as Dave Brubeck, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Frank Morgan, Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis and many more.

Her latest recording is "All That I Need".

Click on the link to listen to the interview.

For more information you may visit www.gracekellymusic.com

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.