Jazz After Dark

By Don Shor

Jazz After Dark episodes

March 05Jazz After Dark, March 3, 2026
On tonight's show:
Red Norvo, Remember
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Tickle Toe (78rpm Version)
Bennie Moten, Moten Swing
Ziggy Elman, I Have Everything to Live For
Dinah Washington, John Coltrane, I Can't Remember
Ella Fitzgerald, So Rare
Helen O'Connell, Bye Bye Blues
Jimmy Smith, One O'Clock Jump
Duke Ellington, Moonbow
Miles Davis, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (45-RPM Single Edit)
Hugh Masekela, Inner Crisis
Count Basie, Mean to me
Count Basie, Blues for Joe Turner
Al Di Meola, Coral
Fraser MacPherson Quartet, Come Sunday
58 min
February 27Jazz After Dark, Feb. 24, 2026
On tonight's show:
Cab Calloway, Minne The Moocher
Jimmie Lunceford, My Blue Heaven
Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Red Norvo, Hank Jones: Diga Diga Doo
Gene Krupa, Mulligan Stew
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Splanky
The Vinnie Burke Quartet, Time Out
Stan Getz Quartet & Mose Allison, Down Beat
Sonny Criss, Memories Of You
Zoot Sims, On the Alamo
Dinah Washington, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (feat. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra)
Grant Green, Born to Be Blue
Sarah Vaughan, Till the End of Time
Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun (1964 Version)
Yusef Lateef, Slippin' And Slidin'
58 min
February 18Jazz After Dark, Feb. 17, 2026
On tonight's show:
Fletcher Henderson, Hot and Anxious
Benny Goodman, Moon Glow
Laurindo Almeida - Jazz West Coast, Speak Low
Benny Carter, June in January
Gigi Gryce Quartet, It Don't Mean A Thing
Buddy Greco, Something's Gotta Give
Tiny Grimes, Frankie and Johnny (feat. Jerome Richardson)
Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra & Dodo Marmarosa, The Moose
Chet Baker, It Never Entered My Mind
Ella Fitzgerald, You're My Thrill
Erroll Garner, That Amsterdam Swing
Chris Barber, I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Cornell Dupree, 'Round Midnight
Diane Lines, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
Dick Wellstood, Red Sails in the Sunset
58 min
February 11Jazz After Dark, Feb. 10, 2026
On tonight's show:
Bix Beiderbecke, Three Blind Mice
Buddy DeFranco, Little Girl Blue
Barney Kessel, Blues For A Playboy
Tal Farlow, Night and Day
Annie Ross and Zoot Sims, You're Driving Me Crazy
Annie Ross, I'm Nobody's Baby
Howard Roberts, Dirty Old Bossa Nova
Chuck Wayne Trio, Lady's Love Song
Nara Leão, Desafinado
Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Sunday
Ella Fitzgerald, Days of Wine and Roses
Cedar Walton, This Guys In Love With You
Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, Miles Ahead
Jimmy Cobb, Book's Bossa (Roy Hargrove trumpet)
58 min
February 04Jazz After Dark, Feb. 3, 2026
On tonight's show:
Milt Jackson & Ray Charles, Love On My Mind
Cannonball Adderley, Another Kind of Soul
Lou Donaldson, Blues Walk
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Pennies From Heaven
Gene Ammons, Blue Ammons
Bobby Timmons, Dat Dare
Horace Silver, Sister Sadie
Stanley Turrentine, Gravy Train
Brother Jack McDuff, Talkin' 'Bout My Woman
Gabor Szabo, Gary McFarland & Lena Horne, The Fool On the Hill
Houston Person (Etta Jones vocals), Don't Misunderstand
Houston Person, All Soul
58 min
January 28Jazz After Dark, Jan. 27, 2026
On tonight's show:
Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Gigi Gryce Quartet, In A Sentimental Mood
Sarah Vaughan with Count Basie and his Orchestra, The Gentleman is a Dope
Horace Silver Quintet, Señor Blues [Bill Henderson vocals]
Annie Ross, I Don't Want to Cry Anymore
Hank Crawford, Angel Eyes
Ella Fitzgerald, That Old Back Magic
Wynton Kelly, Temperance
Don Wikerson, Camp Meetin'
Art Blakey, The Song Is You
Catherine Russell, I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
Lucky Thompson, Soul Carnival
58 min
January 21Jazz After Dark January 20 2026
On tonight's show:
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, Me, Myself and I
Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, The One I Love
Doris Day with John Rarig & The Mellomen, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Claude Williamson Trio, Just One of Those Things
Red Garland, I Know Why (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
Louie Bellson & Pearl Bailey, Zing Went the Strings of My Heart
Sonny Clark, I'm Just a Lucky So and So
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Bossa Nova U.S.A. (Live)
Art Farmer Quartet, Sing Me Softly of The Blues
Horace Parlan, Oh So Blue
Poncho Sanchez, Bésame Mamá
Bernardo Sassetti with Borja Barrueta, Javier Colina & Perico Sambeat, Please Tell Me Now
58 min
January 21Jazz After Dark, Jan. 20, 2026
On tonight's show:
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, Me, Myself and I
Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, The One I Love
Doris Day with John Rarig & The Mellomen, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Claude Williamson Trio, Just One of Those Things
Red Garland, I Know Why (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
Louie Bellson & Pearl Bailey, Zing Went the Strings of My Heart
Sonny Clark, I'm Just a Lucky So and So
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Bossa Nova U.S.A. (Live)
Art Farmer Quartet, Sing Me Softly of The Blues
Horace Parlan, Oh So Blue
Poncho Sanchez, Bésame Mamá
Bernardo Sassetti with Borja Barrueta, Javier Colina & Perico Sambeat, Please Tell Me Now
58 min
January 14Jazz After Dark, Jan. 6, 2026
On tonight's show:
Benny Goodman, Oh! Look At Me Now (feat. Helen Forrest)
The Mills Brothers, Paper Doll (Single)
Art Farmer & Gigi Gryce, Blue Lights
Pérez Prado & His Orchestra, Maria Bonita
Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan with Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans, Airmail Special
Chet Baker, Moonlight Becomes You
Stan Getz, 'Tis Autumn
Clark Terry (Mary Osborne, guitar), Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
Chico O'Farrill & Clark Terry, Spanish Rice
Clark Terry, Jam Session & Oscar Peterson, Misty
Paul Gonsalves, Clark's Bars
Paul Gonsalves, It's Something That You Ought To Know
Claude Bolling & Alexandre Lagoya, Afriçaine
Diana Krall, Only Trust Your Heart
Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, Samba Triste
58 min
December 31, 2025Jazz After Dark December 30 2025
On tonight's show:
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Milenberg Joys
Wingy Manone and His Orchestra, Black Coffee
Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams, Walkin' And Swingin'
Casa Loma Orchestra, Smoke Rings
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise
Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra, After Hours
Ella Fitzgerald, Undecided (feat. Chick Webb and His Orchestra)
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Moonlight Serenade
Benny Goodman Orchestra, Sing, Sing, Sing
Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra, Charlie Horse
Peanuts Holland, It's Wonderful
Marty Paich, Easy Listnin'
George Lewis, Doctor Jazz
George Lewis, Lou-Easy-an-i-a
Heritage Hall Jazz Band, Bill Bailey (Featuring Blanche Thomas)
Boots Randolph, Take The "A" Train
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…