Jazz Night in America is Back! | Thursdays & Saturdays

Season two of Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride premieres September 24. Stream the show live on Thursday nights here or tune into KUVO Saturday nights at 10 PM MT to hear the show rebroadcast.

The new season opens with special coverage of Wayne Shorter’s career-spanning performance as the featured soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In this episode of the weekly radio show and a companion video documentary, Jazz Night in America visits the home of the renowned jazz composer and saxophonist to capture his trailblazing career and his musical (and extra-musical) ideas.

The second season of Jazz Night in America will take audiences on a tour of the country to join the artists defining and redefining the genre as they find new expressions of the music, build the next anthology of jazz standards and experience watershed moments in the genre’s history.

Jazz Night in America’s new YouTube channel will offer signature Jazz Night video interviews, concerts, and more.

Bi-weekly, half-hour concert documentaries take viewers behind the scenes of the performances featured on the radio show that week. Throughout the season, special video shorts will capture important moments in jazz, including the 90th birthday of George Wein, creator of the Newport Jazz Festival.

Jazz Night in America will bring audiences music and behind-the-scenes stories from DC Jazz Fest and the Panama Jazz Festival, visit renowned funk band Snarky Puppy in the group’s hometown of Dallas, and join McBride in his hometown of Philadelphia.

Season Two Schedule

• Sept. 24: Wayne Shorter’s career-spanning performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center
• Oct. 1: George Wein 90th birthday interview special with recordings from his Newport Jazz Festival
• Oct. 8: Jason Moran and The Big Bandwagon tribute to Thelonius Monk at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
• Oct. 15: TBA
• Oct. 22: Arturo O’Farrill brings together American and Cuban musicians in a tribute to Afro-Cuban music during a performance from The Conversation Continued at Symphony Space in New York
• Oct. 29: TBA
• Nov.  5: Thelonious Monk Competition-winning Trumpeter Marquis Hill performs with his band the Blacktet at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago
• Nov. 12: TBA
• Nov. 19: Pat Mallinger, Cameron Pfiffner and the Sabertooth Organ Quartet at Chicago’s Green Mill club, where they perform every Saturday from Midnight to 5 a.m.
• Nov. 26: TBA
• Dec. 3: Keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz at the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle
• Dec. 10: TBA
• Dec. 17: The young, driven artists of Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center