Don Shor's blog

Jazz After Dark March 31, 2015

Getting started with jazz: tonight’s program was selected for a listener new to jazz. These are all legendary performers, songs chosen for historic significance or as iconic examples of that artist’s work. From the 1930’s to the 1960’s: a sampling of mid-20th Century jazz tonight! Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington  *  Coleman Hawkins Orchestra  *  Count Basie  *  Thelonious Monk  *  Sidney Bechet  *  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan  *  Billie Holiday  *  Dave Brubeck  *  Charles Mingus  *  Ella Fitzgerald  *  John Coltrane  *  Sarah Vaughan  *  Chet Baker  *  Ramsey Lewis