Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

KIOS Best Jazz Recordings of 2022

1.Lynne Arriale Trio/The Lights Are Always On/Challenge Records

2.Vicki Burns/Lotus Blossom Days/Independent Release

3.Steve Turre/Generations/Smoke Sessions Records

4. Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force/ Dear Love/Empress Legacy Records

5. The Baylor Project/ The Evening: Live At Apparatus/Independent Release

6. Calvin Keys/ Blue Keys/Wide Hive Records

7. Samara Joy/ Linger Awhile/Verve

8. Dave Stryker with String Quartet/ As We Are/StrikeZone Records

9. Michael Dease/ Best Next Thing/Posi-Tone Records

10. Bobby Watson/Back Home in Kansas City/Smoke Sessions Records

11. Amina Figarova/Joy/Amfi Records

12.Al Foster/Reflections/Smoke Sessions Records

13.Caesar Frazier/Tenacity/ Independent Release

14.Hendrik Meurkens, WDR Big Band & Michael Philip Mossman/Samba Jazz Odyssey/Zoho Music

15.Aaron Stroessner Quartet/Gifts/Noray Eel Music

16.Snorre Kirk & Stephen Riley/Going Up/Stunt

17. Tierney Sutton/ Paris Sessions 2 (feat. Serge Merlaud)/BFM Jazz

18. Giacomo Gates/You/Savant

19. Ron Carter & WDR Big Band/Finding the Right Notes/In & Out Records

20.Andrea Brachfeld & Insight/Evolution/Origin Records

21.Ronnie Foster/Reboot/Blue Note

<b>Chris Cooke </b>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. <br/>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.