The Afternoon Cruise

Show Info

Hosted by: Jazz88

Show Times

Timezone: CDT [UTC-5]

Mon:	3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Tue:	3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Wed:	3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Thu:	3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Fri:	3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

About the Show

With Kevin O’Connor

Jazz88’s music director is your guide to the full spectrum of jazz, along with BBC World Service and regional news at the top of each hour, and First Alert Traffic every twenty minutes.

Interviews and live performances with local and global talent, and features like the NEA Jazz Masters Moment, round out the program.

Includes Twin Cities Weekend on Thursdays at 6:20 p.m.

Playlist Archive Monday-Thursday

Playlist Archive Friday

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Posts

New Music: Sprig Of That, Vincent Herring

If you are a regular listener to KBEM, hopefully you’ve heard Phil Nusbaum’s informative and entertaining feature Twin Cities This Week/Twin Cities Weekend. On a recent playback, I was intrigued by a new band, […]

"Dissonance" explores connection between mental health & music, Sophia Shorai performs

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. To honor that and to do what can be done to “Smash the Stigma,” two board members of Dissonance, Katy Vernon and Carl Atiya Swanson, stopped by to explain the function […]

Freddy Cole visits prior to Crooners shows

Still charming audiences in his eighth decade, singer/pianist Freddy Cole talked about his new cd, growing up Cole and his shows at Crooners May 19th and 20th. Here’s a bit of his conversation with Kevin O’Connor: […]

We love artists who bring flowers in tin pails! Annie Fitzgerald in-studio

Singer/songwriter Annie Fitzgerald is getting set to unleash a work of pure beauty: “You And Me And The Sun” on June 1 at The Hook And Ladder. Here’s most of our chat: Originally aired May […]

Velvet Caravan Performs on The Afternoon Cruise

Savannah, Georgia-based Velvet Caravan stopped by the studio to play and chat with Kevin O’Connor before they heated things up at Vieux Carre Wednesday. AUDIO: Originally aired Wednesday, October 11 on The Afternoon Cruise with […]

Will Mick Sterling break the world record?

Will Mick Sterling – and hundreds of his closest friends – break a percussion world record on Harriet Island? Patty Peterson visits about Let There Be Drums, which will bring hundreds of drum kit players together to […]

Carmen Lundy breaks down "Code Noir" in the Jazz88 studio

While in town to support her recent release “Code Noir” with a show at the Dakota, triple-threat vocalist-composer-arranger Carmen Lundy spent some time visiting with Jazz88’s Michele Jansen on The Afternoon Cruise. Listen below. […]

Diana Krall opens world tour in Minneapolis

Multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall kicks off her World Tour and performs selections from her latest release Turn Up The Quiet this Friday, June 2nd at the State Theatre in Minneapolis. Krall’s […]

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