Jazz After Dark

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 straight-ahead jazz, soul jazz, bossa nova, and more. 

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Replays Wednesday 10-11pm
Live Tuesday 8-9pm
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Jazz After Dark, Nov. 4, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Lester Young Quartet, I Never Knew
  • Billie Holiday, Fine and Mellow
  • Lester Young, Nat King Cole & Buddy Rich, I Want to Be Happy
  • Lester Young, I Cover the Waterfront (feat. Ray Brown, J.C. Heard, Herb Ellis & Oscar Peterson
  • Charlie Singleton, Lester Leaps In
  • Benny Goodman Sextet, Rose Room
  • Nat King Cole, Let There Be Love
  • Johnny Richards, For All We Know
  • Gerry Mulligan, Disc Jockey Jump
  • Benny Carter, One Morning in May
  • Louis Armstrong, Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Comes Love
  • Dave Brubeck, Take Five
  • Pepper Adams Quintet with Thad Jones, Little Waltz

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 28, 2025

On tonight's show, lots of live concert performances:

  • Red Norvo, All of Me (Live) [feat. Frank Sinatra]
  • Frank Sinatra, One for My Baby (And One More For the Road)
  • Ramsey Lewis Trio, Fly Me to the Moon (Live)
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and His Orchestra & Tommy Flanagan, L.O.V.E. (Live)
  • Dave Brubeck, Rotterdam Blues
  • Paul Desmond Quartet, Take Five
  • Stan Getz, Infant Eyes
  • Gerry Mulligan, Mel Tormé & George Shearing, Jeru (Live)
  • Lew Tabackin and Toshiko Akiyoshi, How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
  • Shirley Horn, Once I Loved (Live)
  • Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie, I Remember Jimmy Yancey
  • Bucky Pizzarelli, Jersey Bounce

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 21, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Contrasts
  • Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra, All of Me
  • Artie Shaw, Begin the Beguine
  • Fats Waller, Honeysuckle Rose
  • Barney Bigard & His Jazzopators, Moonlight Fiesta (a/k/a "Swing Alero")
  • Barney Bigard & His Jazzopators, Get It Southern Style
  • Benny Goodman, Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)
  • Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra & Duke Ellington, Peckin'
  • Lester Young & The Kansas City Six, Jo-Jo
  • Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Swingin' On C
  • Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra, Cherokee
  • Sidney Bechet, Make Me A Pallet on The Floor
  • Harry James, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Billy Eckstine, I Love the Rhythm in A Riff
  • Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, The Man I Love
  • Frank Sinatra, I Get a Kick Out of You
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Georgia on My Mind

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 14, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Lester Young, Lester Leaps In
  • Count Basie & The Kansas City Seven, Dickie's Dream
  • Billie Holiday, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Betty Roché, Blue Moon
  • Lester Young, Up 'N' Adam
  • Sarah Vaughan with Count Basie and his Orchestra, Perdido
  • Gerry Mulligan, Turnstile
  • Vince Guaraldi, Corcovado
  • John Lewis & Bill Perkins with Jim Hall, Skylark
  • Ike Quebec, Buzzard Lope
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Blues in the Night (1961 Version)
  • Stanley Turrentine, I Wish I Knew
  • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Boogie Bumper

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 7, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Arnett Cobb with Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones, Art Taylor & Buck Clark, Walkin'
  • Al Hirt, Tin Roof Blues
  • Lou Donaldson, Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  • Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, The Preacher
  • Hank Mobley, Soul Station
  • Gerry Mulligan, Venus de Milo
  • Cal Tjader, Willie Bobo, Mongo Santamaria & The Eddie Cano Big Band, Key Largo
  • Shirley Scott, 411 West
  • Herbie Hancock, Watermelon Man
  • Howard Roberts, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
  • Boogaloo Joe Jones, The Beat Goes On

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 30, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Griff Williams and His Orchestra, Saturday Night In Central Park
  • Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Moten Swing
  • Duke Ellington, Satin Doll
  • Glenn Miller Sound, In the Mood
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Taxi War Dance
  • Nat King Cole, Baby, Baby All the Time
  • Peggy Lee, Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Tuxedo Junction
  • Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra, Annie's Dance
  • Frank Sinatra, Come dance with me
  • Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, Exactly Like You
  • Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra, Stardust
  • Sergio Mendes, Oba-la-la
  • Billy Taylor, Capricious
  • Zoot Sims, Someone to Watch Over Me
  • Dorothy Donegan, Time After Time
  • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Maddest Kind of Love

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 23, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • George Gershwin, Havanola
  • Artie Shaw, I've Got a Crush on You
  • Buddy Greco, How Long Has This Been Going On
  • Frank Morgan with Gigi Gryce, Embraceable You
  • Frank Sinatra, I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
  • Hadda Brooks, Rhapsody in Blue
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, But Not for Me
  • Aretha Franklin, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Stuff Smith, Somebody Loves Me
  • Ella Fitzgerald, That Certain Feeling
  • Pete Fountain, I Got Rhythm
  • Pearl Bailey, Summertime
  • Etta Jones, They Can't Take That Away from Me
  • Stanley Turrentine, Someone to Watch Over Me

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 16, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime
  • Benny Goodman, Stompin' At The Savoy
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Oh, Lady Be Good
  • Earl Hines, Lightly and Politely
  • Joe Sullivan, I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • Tal Farlow, Cherokee
  • Claude Williamson Trio, Round Midnight
  • Earl Bostic, East of the Sun
  • Paul Desmond, Body and Soul
  • Toots Thielemans, Flirt
  • Hank Mobley, Soft Impressions
  • McCoy Tyner, Days of Wine and Roses
  • Al Jarreau, So Long Girl
  • Lew Tabackin, Yesterdays
  • Houston Person, Put It Right There

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 9, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Glenn Miller, Little Brown Jug
  • Duke Ellington, Take The A Train
  • Lester Young & His Band, These Foolish Things
  • Art Tatum, Willow Weep For Me
  • Count Basie, Cherokee
  • Charlie Shavers and Maxine Sullivan, Dark Eyes
  • Claude Williamson Trio, Stompin' at the Savoy
  • Tony Scott, My Funny Valentine
  • Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Let's Fall in Love
  • Art Pepper, You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Harry Carney & The Duke's Men, Jeepers Creepers
  • McCoy Tyner, Satin Doll
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, Tippin' In
  • Zoot Sims, Somebody Loves Me

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 2, 2025

West Coast cool jazz on tonight’s show:

  • Buddy Tate, Vine Street Breakdown
  • Shelly Manne & His Men, Summer Night
  • Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me
  • Cy Touff, It's Sand'Man
  • Miles Davis, Just Squeeze Me
  • Shorty Rogers, Infinity promenade
  • Gerry Mulligan, May-Reh
  • Stan Getz, I Only Have Eyes for You
  • Dave Brubeck Trio, Indiana
  • Dave Brubeck, Zen is When
  • Chet Baker, Star Eyes
  • Cal Tjader, Morning
  • Tito Puente, Take Five
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Mr. Shor,

Would you be able to announce on "Jazz After Dark" a local, Davis, FREE live-jazz monthly, community event

called, "Davis Jazz Night." At the John Natsoulas Art Gallery 521 1St. downtown Davis. 700:-9:00

monthly, EVERY last Friday. Always hosted by a Davis semi-pro community 12-piece jazz band called "The New Harmony Jazz Band." Thank you.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 6:12pm

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