Jazz After Dark

On tonight’s show: Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Ahmad Jamal, Gerry Mulligan, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Giuffre & Jim Hall, Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer with Big Miller on vocals, Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges, Stuff Smith, Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete, and Abbey Lincoln.

Tonight on Jazz After Dark: a retrospective of the career of jazz pianist Earl Hines. His career spanned 1920 to 1983 and bridged early jazz, swing, bebop, and more. In his later career resurgence he did many solo performances and duets, producing over a hundred albums in the 1960s and '70s.

In the first half we’ll hear Teddy Wilson, Cab Calloway, Lester Young, Art Pepper with Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, and Ella Fitzgerald. Then comes a tribute to the late Ahmad Jamal with recordings from the 1950s and '60s, and then live with Yusef Lateef in 2012.

First up tonight: Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Benny Carter & Oscar Peterson Trio, Clark Terry with Marian Bruce on vocals, and in a jam session with Oscar Peterson, as well as his All-Star Sax Ensemble.

Classic jazz performances tonight:

Duke Ellington -- Take The A-Train

Louis Armstrong -- Ain't Misbehavin'

Sidney Bechet -- Blue Horizon 1944

Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane -- Honeysuckle Rose

Stan Kenton -- The Creep

Billie Holiday -- Fine and Mellow

Dave Brubeck -- Take Five

Peggy Lee  -- Black Coffee

Woody Herman Sextet -- Moten Swing

Ella Fitzgerald -- That Old Black Magic

Chet Baker -- Over the Rainbow

Sarah Vaughan -- Fascinating Rhythm

Stan Getz & Gary McFarland -- Manha De Carnaval (Morning of Carnival)

Oscar Peterson -- Night Train (Alternate Take)

Earl Hines -- Save It Pretty Mama

On tonight’s show, we’ll hear 1930s jazz in the first half: Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Lonnie Johnson, Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong.  Then West coast cool with Shorty Rogers, Stan Getz, vocal by Doris Day, Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Peterson, Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, and Dave Brubeck.

On tonight’s show, we’ll hear 1930s jazz in the first half: Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Lonnie Johnson, Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy, Coleman Hawkins, and Louis Armstrong. Then we'll have west coast cool with Shorty Rogers, Stan Getz, vocal by Doris Day, Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Peterson, Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, and Dave Brubeck.

Five longer sets on Jazz After Dark tonight.

Five longer sets on Jazz After Dark tonight. We’ll hear:

• Freedom Jazz Dance -- Eddie Harris

• So What -- Miles Davis

• My Favorite Things -- John Coltrane

• The Sidewinder -- Lee Morgan

• Round Midnight -- Charlie Rouse

We have jazz standards tonight by Billie Holiday, Louis Prima, Artie Shaw, Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald & Buddy Bregman, Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Joni James, Chuck Wayne Trio, Budd Johnson with Earl "Fatha" Hines, Oscar Peterson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dianne Reeves, The Duke Robillard Jazz Trio, and Larry Carlton.