Jazz After Dark

By Don Shor

Jazz After Dark episodes

April 02, 2025Jazz After Dark April 01 2025
On tonight's show:
Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
Chick Webb, I Ain't Got Nobody
John Coltrane w Dinah Washington, Fast Movin' Mama
Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana
Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Johnny Hodges, Early Morning Rock
Clark Terry, C-Jam Blues
Cal Tjader, Descarga Cubana
Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Stardust
Ella Fitzgerald, Fine and Mellow
Johnny Hodges & Gerry Mulligan, Back Beat
Abbey Lincoln, Throw It Away
Clark Terry and Bobby Brookmeyer, Bye Bye Blackbird
58 min
April 02, 2025Jazz After Dark, April 1, 2025
On tonight's show:
Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
Chick Webb, I Ain't Got Nobody
John Coltrane w Dinah Washington, Fast Movin' Mama
Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana
Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Johnny Hodges, Early Morning Rock
Clark Terry, C-Jam Blues
Cal Tjader, Descarga Cubana
Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Stardust
Ella Fitzgerald, Fine and Mellow
Johnny Hodges & Gerry Mulligan, Back Beat
Abbey Lincoln, Throw It Away
Clark Terry and Bobby Brookmeyer, Bye Bye Blackbird
58 min
March 26, 2025Jazz After Dark, March 25, 2025
Tonight’s show is a retrospective on Louis Armstrong’s career, with selections from across the decades:
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Potato Head Blues, 1927
From 1928 – 31:
What Did I Do to Be So Black And Blue
The Peanut Vendor
Louis Armstrong Orchestra:
When You're Smiling
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Red Sails in the Sunset
Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Farewell to Storyville
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Atlanta Blues
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Can't We Be Friends
Louis Armstrong & Russell Garcia, Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Struttin' with Some Barbecue
Louis Armstrong & Sy Oliver, I Can't Give You Anything but Love
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place (Live on The Ed Sullivan Show, Dec. 17, 1961)
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Azalea
Louis Armstrong vocals, 1960s:
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
What a Wonderful World
58 min
March 19, 2025Jazz After Dark, March 18, 2025
On tonight’s show:
Bix Beiderbecke, Copenhagen
Glenn Miller, Adios
Benny Goodman, Rose Room
Benny Goodman, Big John's Special
Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Fools Rush In
Doris Day and Les Brown, Sentimental Journey
Billie Holiday, What A Little Moonlight Can Do
Ella Fitzgerald, You're the Top
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Serenade in Blue
Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
Nat "King" Cole, Nature Boy
Kenny Burrell Octet, A String of Pearls
Dave Brubeck, Upstage Rumba
Clark Terry and Paul Gonsalves, Funky
Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill, Macarena
Clark Terry, Jam Session with Oscar Peterson, Misty
Dianne Reeves (with Clark Terry), I Hadn't Anyone ‘til You
58 min
March 12, 2025Jazz After Dark, March 11, 2025
On tonight's show:
Louis Armstrong, What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue
Gene Krupa and His Orchestra with Anita O’Day and Roy Eldridge, Let Me Off Uptown
Frank Sinatra, Stormy Weather
Art Pepper with Sonny Redd, These Foolish Things
Ahmad Jamal, Music! Music! Music!
James Clay, Pavanne
Stuff Smith, They Can't Take That Away from Me
Ella Fitzgerald, The Man I Love
Ella Fitzgerald, Over the Rainbow
Eubie Blake, Spanish Venus
Charlie Byrd, Saudade de Bahía
Gerry Mulligan, Walking Shoes
Cassandra Wilson, O Sole Mio Funk
New Orleans' Own the Dukes of Dixieland, Petite Fleur
58 min
March 05, 2025Jazz After Dark March 04 2025
On tonight's show:
Louis Armstrong Orchestra, Star Dust
The Bud Freeman Trio, Three Little Words
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Long Gone (From the Bowlin' Green)
Artie Shaw And His Gramercy, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
Terry Pollard, Emaline
Nat King Cole, When I Fall in Love
Billy Taylor, Poinciana
Hank Mobley, If I Should Lose You
John Coltrane, Naima
Arnett Cobb, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Oscar Peterson, C-Jam Blues
Frank Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra Ella Fitzgerald the Lady is a Tramp
Joe Henderson, Miles Ahead
Wolfgang Haffner, Children of Sanchez
58 min
March 05, 2025Jazz After Dark, March 4, 2025
On tonight's show:
Louis Armstrong Orchestra, Star Dust
The Bud Freeman Trio, Three Little Words
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Long Gone (From the Bowlin' Green)
Artie Shaw And His Gramercy, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
Terry Pollard, Emaline
Nat King Cole, When I Fall in Love
Billy Taylor, Poinciana
Hank Mobley, If I Should Lose You
John Coltrane, Naima
Arnett Cobb, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Oscar Peterson, C-Jam Blues
Frank Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra Ella Fitzgerald the Lady is a Tramp
Joe Henderson, Miles Ahead
Wolfgang Haffner, Children of Sanchez
58 min
February 26, 2025Jazz After Dark February 25 2025
On tonight's show:
The Adrian Rollini Quartet, Josephine
Bunny Berigan, Chicken and Waffles
Benny Carter - Takin' My Time
The Mills Brothers, Till Then
Andy Kirk - A Mellow Bit of Rhythm
Peggy Lee, Easy Living
Mundell Lowe, We'll Be Together Again
Nat "King" Cole, Caravan
Billy Taylor, A Little Southeside Soul
John Coltrane, Soul Eyes
Arnett Cobb, Nitty Gritty
Phineas Newborn Jr., Four
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place (Aka C - Jam Blues)
Dave Brubeck, Fujiyama
The Howard Roberts Quartet, Summer Wind
The Howard Roberts Quartet, Three O'Clock in The Morning
58 min
February 26, 2025Jazz After Dark, Feb. 25, 2025
On tonight's show:
The Adrian Rollini Quartet, Josephine
Bunny Berigan, Chicken and Waffles
Benny Carter, Takin' My Time
The Mills Brothers, Till Then
Andy Kirk, A Mellow Bit of Rhythm
Peggy Lee, Easy Living
Mundell Lowe, We'll Be Together Again
Nat "King" Cole, Caravan
Billy Taylor, A Little Southside Soul
John Coltrane, Soul Eyes
Arnett Cobb, Nitty Gritty
Phineas Newborn Jr., Four
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place (aka C-Jam Blues)
Dave Brubeck, Fujiyama
The Howard Roberts Quartet, Summer Wind
The Howard Roberts Quartet, Three O'Clock in The Morning
58 min
February 19, 2025Jazz After Dark February 18 2025
On tonight’s show:
Bing Crosby, Sweet Georgia Brown, 1932
Chu Berry, Body and Soul, 1938
The Spencer Trio, Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?, 1938
Winifred Atwell, Choo Choo Samba, 1950s
Claude Williamson Trio, Stella by Starlight, 1956
Illinois Jacquet, Have You Met Miss Jones?, 1957
Doris Day, There Will Never Be Another You, 1957
Clark Terry, Take the A Train, 1957
Duke Ellington, Night and Day, 1958
Howard Roberts, When the Sun Comes Out, 1959
Ella Fitzgerald, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Live at the Crescendo), 1961
Oscar Peterson Trio, Moten Swing, 1963
Paul Desmond, The Theme from Black Orpheus, 1963
Zoot Sims, The Girl from Ipanema, 1977
The Rosenberg Trio, Django, 1995
The Spencer Wyatt Big Band, Blues in The Bucket, 2001
58 min

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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…