NPR's Toast of the Nation 2014/2015 airs 8:00PM Dec 31 - 4:00AM Jan 1 on KIOS-FM
The New Year's tradition continues with jazz you can party to all night long. Toast of the Nation travels to the Newport Jazz Festival, Winter Jazzfest, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. There are no live segments this year, but don't worry, you can still enjoy festive jazz sets with countdowns in three time zones. It's sure to be a nonstop celebration of musical fireworks that will keep you dancing and swinging all night long. Your host is WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton.
8:00: Jon Batiste and Stay Human play a high energy set from the 2014 Newport Jazz Festval.
9:00: Winter Jazzfest Highlights with Big Chief Donald Harrison, Gretchen Parlato, the Hypnotic Brass Band and more.
10:00: Wynton Marsalis pays tribute to Jelly Roll Morton in this encore performance from the 2011/2012 Toast broadcast from Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.
11:30: Dee Alexander's Funkin' with Electric Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. An encore performance that tore up Chicago's South Shore Cultural Center in 2012.
12:30: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy from L.A's Walt Disney Concert Hall. An encore from 2010.
2:15: A re-airing of Jon Baptiste and Stay Human.
3:00: A re-airing of the Winter Jazzfest highlights.
