TOAST OF THE NATION - 8:00PM New Years Eve!

KIOS | By Mike Jacobs

Published December 29, 2016 at 8:40 AM CST

An NPR tradition every New Year's Eve since the 1970's, Toast of the Nation is the perfect audio compliment for the occasion. It's festive jazz you can party to, all night long.

Spirited, improvised, and swinging, each stop this year is in a Blue Note venue throughout the country and the world! We'll hear sets from Buika, The Fred Hersch Trio, The Ron Carter Quartet, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau.

Your host this year is bassist Christian McBride of Jazz Night In America.

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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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