Jazz After Dark

By Don Shor

Jazz After Dark episodes

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
58 min
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
58 min
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
58 min
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
58 min
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'
58 min
July 02, 2025Jazz After Dark, July 1, 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'
58 min
June 25, 2025Jazz After Dark, June 24, 2025
On tonight’s show:
Count Basie, vocal Helen Humes, My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Oscar Aleman, Cherokee
Charlie Parker, I'll Remember April
Stan Getz, Four
Sarah Vaughan, All the Things You Are
Miles Davis, Oleo
Frank Sinatra, Have You Met Miss Jones
Sonny Stitt, Confirmation
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete, Days of Wine and Roses
Boots Randolph, The Girl from Ipanema
Erroll Garner, All the Things You Are
The Taylor Eigsti Trio, In A Sentimental Mood
58 min
June 18, 2025Jazz After Dark, June 17, 2025
On tonight's show:
Chick Webb, In A Little Spanish Town
Kansas City Six, Countless Blues
Artie Shaw, Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
Ella Fitzgerald, Stairway to the Stars (Single Version)
Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Nona
Billie Holiday, I Cover the Waterfront
Gerry Mulligan, Disc Jockey Jump
Lena Horne, Cole Porter Medley
Ahmad Jamal, No Greater Love (Live)
Sonny Clark Trio, Softly As In a Morning Sunrise
Herbie Mann, Consolacao (Consolation)
Shirley Scott with Stanley Turrentine, Deep Down Soul
58 min
June 11, 2025Jazz After Dark, June 10, 2025
On tonight's show:
Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes and His Three Blind Mice, St. Louis Blues
Benny Goodman, Exactly Like You
Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters, Jubilesta
Lester Young & The Kansas City Six, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Count Basie, Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
Anita O'Day, Watch the Birdie [Album Version]
Freddy Martin, Tonight We Love
Major Glenn Miller & The American Band Of The Allied Expeditionary Force, Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar
Dizzy Gillespie, Oop Bop Sh' Bam
Sidney Bechet, Old Stack O'Lee Blues
Artie Shaw, Stop and Go Mambo
Etta Jones, Long Long Journey
Ahmad Jamal, - Raincheck
Ella Fitzgerald, Just One Of Those Things
The Don Ellis Orchestra, Alone
58 min
June 04, 2025Jazz After Dark June 03 2025
Coming up tonight,
Erroll Garner,
Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan
Charlie Shavers & Coleman Hawkins
Art Blakey
Oscar Peterson
Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Illinois Jacquet
Eddie Harris
Claude Bolling & Alexandre Lagoya
Chuck Mangione
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…