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Below, you'll find a compilation of all album reviews done by local KIOS jazz and blues staff.

Last Call Label Spotlight: Cuneiform Records

KIOS | By Chris Cooke
Published March 10, 2012 at 10:03 PM CST

Cuneiform Records has released another series of discs on the last several months that will almost certainly enchant Last Call listeners. Joel Harrison has released a new disc on the label with an impressive band including noted trumpeter and educator Cuong Vu. Holy Abyss does not disappoint. Fans of Return to Forever will delight in a new recording from Forgas Band Phenomena : Acte V. Led by Composer/Drummer Patrick Forgas this band captivates with jazz-rock mix. Also notable is a new recording from  Sao Paulo Underground(featuring Rob Mazurek), Tres Cabecas Loucuras. The band spearheaded by Mazurek's brilliant cornet explores the frontiers of jazz and ambient sound on an impressive disc, informed by the sunny rhythms of Brazil.  The Claudia Quintet returns with their sixth album,  What Is the Beautiful?, bringing together the compositional approach of leader John Hollenbeck with vocalists Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann, in a performance of the poems of avant-garde/proto-beat American poet, Kenneth Patchen, an innovator in his time.
For more information on these and other fine releases on Cuneiform records, you may visit their website: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/index.shtml
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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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