Last Call news/February 2022

By Chris Cooke

Published February 12, 2022 at 7:17 PM CST

Last Call news for this month, February 2022:

Acclaimed virtuoso vibraphonist Steve Raybine will be remembered at a Celebration of Life in Omaha on February 19th. The event will be streamed online due to limited seating.
Later that evening, Chris Cooke will present a tribute to Steve Raybine on the Last Call, 9-11pm on KIOS-FM and streaming over this website.
For more information you may visit steveraybine.com

And in other news..legendary Tabla player Badal Roy has passed away. He worked with Miles Davis on the album "On The Corner". Roy was 82.

Betty Davis, a funk pioneer and fashion icon, passed away earlier this week. She was married briefly to legendary trumpeter Miles Davis and played an important part in the evolution of the jazz trumpeter's music in the late 1960s. She was 77.

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Chris Cooke

<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.

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