Jazz After Dark

By Don Shor

Join jazz aficionado Don Shor as he explores the diverse and fascinating world of jazz. Jazz After Dark spans the gamut, from roots in boogie-woogie, blues, and ragtime through traditional and stra

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The podcast currently has 490 episodes available.

Jazz After Dark episodes:

August 20, 2025Jazz After Dark, Aug. 19, 2025
On tonight’s show:
Louis Armstrong, Sittin' In The Sun
Nat "King" Cole, Route 66
Julie London, Goody Goody
Mundell Lowe, Crazy Rhythm
Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
Horace Parlan, There Is No Greater Love
Etta Jones, And the Angels Sing
Jacy Parker, But Beautiful
Bud Shank, A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
Nina Simone, Mood Indigo
The Jazz At the Philharmonic All-Stars, I Surrender Dear (feat. Roy Eldridge)
Abdullah Ibrahim, Manenberg (Revisited)
The Charlie Byrd Trio, Jive at Five (Live)
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58min
August 13, 2025Jazz After Dark August 12 2025
Six longer sets tonight:
Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Charlie Shavers, and more, Funky Blues
Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan, 'Round Midnight (feat. Wilbur Ware & Shadow Wilson)
Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Ben's Blues
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges, Harry Edison trumpet, Basin Street Blues
Miles Davis, Solea
Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz, The Two Lonely People
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58min
August 13, 2025Jazz After Dark, Aug. 12, 2025
Six longer sets tonight:
Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Charlie Shavers, and more, Funky Blues
Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan, 'Round Midnight (feat. Wilbur Ware & Shadow Wilson)
Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Ben's Blues
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges, Harry Edison trumpet, Basin Street Blues
Miles Davis, Solea
Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz, The Two Lonely People
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58min
August 06, 2025Jazz After Dark August 05 2025
On tonight's show:
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime
Major Glenn Miller & The American Band of The Allied Expeditionary Force, Caribbean Clipper
Dave Pike, cattin' latin
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Good Times Blues
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Blues in Hoss's Flat (feat. Waymon Reed, Jimmy Forrest & Al Grey)
Ella Fitzgerald & Tommy Flanagan, Night and Day
Marcos Valle, So Nice (Summer Samba) - Marcos Valle
Charlie Byrd, Favela
Jim Hall, Curacao Doloroso
The Hot Club Of San Francisco, Giselle - Waltz D'Entichement
Grover Washington Jr., Estate (Ess-tah-tay)
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58min
August 06, 2025Jazz After Dark, Aug. 5, 2025
On tonight's show:
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime
Major Glenn Miller & The American Band of The Allied Expeditionary Force, Caribbean Clipper
Dave Pike, cattin' latin
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Good Times Blues
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Blues in Hoss's Flat (feat. Waymon Reed, Jimmy Forrest & Al Grey)
Ella Fitzgerald & Tommy Flanagan, Night and Day
Marcos Valle, So Nice (Summer Samba) - Marcos Valle
Charlie Byrd, Favela
Jim Hall, Curacao Doloroso
The Hot Club Of San Francisco, Giselle - Waltz D'Entichement
Grover Washington Jr., Estate (Ess-tah-tay)
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58min
July 30, 2025Jazz After Dark, July 29, 2025
On tonight's show:
Benny Carter, Sweet Georgia Brown
Artie Shaw, What Is This Thing Called Love?
Ella Fitzgerald, In a Mellow Tone
Miles Davis, Doxy
Billie Holiday, Embraceable You
Eddie Harris, Exodus
Gerry Mulligan & The Concert Jazz Band, Body and Soul
Kenny Burrell Octet, If I Should Lose You
Count Basie, Makin' Whoopee
Frank Sinatra, I've Got You Under My Skin
Eddie Lockjaw Davis with Paul Gonsalves, If I Should Lose You
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bye Bye Blackbird
Dianne Reeves, The Nearness of You / Misty
Ximo Tebar, St. Thomas
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58min
July 23, 2025Jazz After Dark, July 22, 2025
Coming up tonight, it’s Duke Ellington and some of the great musicians who worked with him. The songs:
Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra, Cotton Club Stomp
Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra, I Was Made to Love You
Duke Ellington, Come Sunday (with Mahalia Jackson)
Billy Strayhorn, Take the "A" Train
Johnny Hodges, Art Pepper Quintett / What's New
Johnny Hodges & Duke Ellington, Moon Glow
Johnny Hodges with Ray Nance vocals, Just Squeeze Me
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges, Wabash Blues
Duke Ellington, Take the "A" Train
Paul Gonsalves, I'm Beginning to See the Light
Harry Carney & The Duke's Men, Five O’clock Drag
Harry Carney, Paul Gonsalves, Harold Ashby & The Duke's Men, Backstairs
Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Duke's Place
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58min
July 16, 2025Jazz After Dark, July 15, 2025
Jazz with French style tonight:
Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France, Echoes of France (La Marseillaise)
Django Reinhardt, How High The Moon
Charlie Parker, April In Paris
Sidney Bechet, Petite Fleur
Jazzmen Detroit (Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Pepper Adams, Kenny Burrell & Kenny Clarke), Afternoon in Paris
Ella Fitzgerald, I Love Paris
Joséphine Baker, Don't Touch My Tomatoes
Nina Simone, Ne Me Quitte Pas
Toots Thielemans, Ne Me Quitte Pas
Jimmy Rowles & Michael Moore , Waltz 70
Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love
The Hot Club of San Francisco, Jitterbug Waltz
Stéphane Grappelli & McCoy Tyner, Summertime
Claude Bolling & Stephane Grappelli, Blue Skies
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58min
July 09, 2025Jazz After Dark, July 8, 2025
On tonight's show:
Joe Venuti's Blue Four, Raggin' The Scale
Coleman Hawkins, After You've Gone
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, A Sailboat In the Moonlight
Artie Shaw, Diga Diga Doo
Oscar Aleman, Diga Diga Do
Oscar Aleman, Mia Casita Pequeñita
Oscar Aleman, Improvisaciones Sobre Boogie Woogie
Benny Carter, June Is Busting Out All Over
Cannonball Adderley, Love For Sale
Art Blakey, Let's Take 16 Bars
Wes Montgomery, Something Like Bags
Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Imagine My Frustration
Dave Brubeck Quartet ft. Jim Hall, Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, I'm A Stranger Here Myself
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58min
July 02, 2025Jazz After Dark July 01 2025
Some old-fashioned jazz tonight:
Benny Goodman, Swing into Spring
Fletcher Henderson, Livery Stable Blues
Fletcher Henderson, Grand Terrace Swing
Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Moten Swing
Benny Goodman, Life Goes to a Party
Benny Goodman, Fascinating Rhythm
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Black Beauty
Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge, Pass The Bounce
George Lewis, Panama
Louis Armstrong, Sweethearts On Parade
Oscar Peterson & Louis Armstrong, Moon Song
Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet, Exactly LIke You
Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet, Embraceable You
New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, When the Saints Go Marching In
New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Bourbon Street Parade
Louise Tobin and Peanuts Hucko, I Am Confessin'
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58min

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