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SFJazz Center Opening Night Concert

KIOS | By Mike Jacobs
Published April 16, 2013 at 5:44 PM CDT

For Jazz Appreciation Month, KIOS presents the SFJazz Center Opening Night Concert on Wednesday April 17th at 8:00PM. San Francisco has been a jazz hot spot for decades and now the city is home to the first stand-alone building built specifically for jazz. It's the new 700 seat SFJazz Center.

NPR Music, WBGO and WWOZ teamed up to present the opening night concert on the web on January 23rd. Bill Cosby was the host for an evening that featured a one-time-only gathering of jazz stars that included McCoy Tyner,Chick Corea, Joshua Redman, Bobby Hutcherson, Mary Stallings,John Handy, Pete Escovedo, the SFJazz Collective, and the Resident Artistic directors Regina Carter, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, John Santos and Miguel Zenon. Tune in for this historic night of jazz with your hosts Josh Jackson of WBGO and Sondra Bibb of WWOZ
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Mike Jacobs
Mike Jacobs has been with KIOS since 1988 while attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Mike began his career at KIOS working weekends acting as local host for NPR’s Weekend Edition. He also hosted Morning Edition from 1990-1996. Mike began hosting the weekly blues program “Blues in the Afternoon” in October 1994 and took on the responsibilities of jazz programming and maintaining the music library in 1996. He has held the position of Music Director since 2002. In addition to hosting “Jazz in the Afternoon” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, Mike also helps with assembling music for “Jazz From Studio One” hosted by the advanced radio students at the Omaha Public Schools Career Center. Mike is an Omaha native and graduated from Technical High School in 1984.
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