Jazz After Dark

Tonight on Jazz After Dark: we'll start with some of Gerry Mulligan's studio recordings from the early 1960s. Then Grant Green, Deodato, Benny Carter, two from Count Basie's late-career recordings, Milt Jackson, Dave Young with Oscar Peterson, and the Rosenberg Trio.

Tonight on Jazz After Dark: jazz themes from ragtime and blues. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five, Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines, Lester Young & The Kansas City Six, Benny Goodman, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Byrd, Eubie Blake, Ella Fitzgerald, Shorty Rogers, Dinah Washington, Dave Brubeck, Carmen McRae, Ramsey Lewis, Claude Bolling Big Band

Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Sonny Clark, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald & Jimmy Jones Trio with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, Herbie Mann & The Bill Evans Trio, Pete Fountain, Ben Webster, Eddie Jefferson, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Stan Getz, Dianne Reeves, and Harold Mabern.

Tonight on Jazz After Dark: melodies by Cole Porter, performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Sidney Bechet, Artie Shaw, King Cole Trio, Benny Carter & Oscar Peterson Trio, Maynard Ferguson, Dorothy Donegan, Coleman Hawkins, Erroll Garner, Al Hirt, Mose Allison, Oscar Peterson, Bireli Lagrene, and Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli.

Tonight on Jazz After Dark it’s 1930s swing, and then a vocal set: Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman; Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Doris Day, Buddy Greco, Ella Fitzgerald, Eiji Kitamura and Cedar Walton.

Tonight on Jazz After Dark! Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner, Jimmy Hamilton, Gene Ammons, Oscar Peterson Trio, Mel Tormé, Benny Carter, Tony Bennett, Danny Grissett.

Tonight on jazz After Dark! Billie Hoilday, Georgie Auld & His Orchestra, Benny Carter, Gene Ammons. A New Orleans set with Louis Armstrong, New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, The 6 & 7/8ths String Band, Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Sweet Emma & Her Dixieland Boys. Bossa Nova by, João Gilberto & Milton Banana, Luiz Bonfá, Nara Leão. Then we’ll take it out with Pharoah Sanders & William Henderson

Jazz standards by classic performers tonight.

Louis Armstrong and His Hot 7 with Potato Head Blues, Artie Shaw doing Begin the Beguine, Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian with Rose Room and Benny Goodman doing Body and Soul. We'll hear Erroll Garner with his composition Misty, Andy Kirk doing A Mellow Bit Of Rhythm. Miles Davis performs 'Round About Midnight, Louis Prima with Body And Soul, Ella Fitzgerald sings Fascinating Rhythm. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play Lullaby Of Birdland; Billie Pool with Stormy Weather, Duke Ellington doing One O'Clock Jump. Ella Fitzgerald: performs You'll Have to Swing It, and then we take it out with Dianne Reeves singing Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do).

Our featured performer tonight is Tommy Flanagan, mellow jazz pianist whose recording career spanned more than four decades with his own band, as sideman on countless albums, and as the primary accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald for over a decade.

Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Sidney Bechet, Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter, Billy Taylor, Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, Duke Ellington, and Claude Bolling.