Jazz After Dark

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

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Jazz After Dark, May 27, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Billie Holiday, What a Little Moonlight
  • Oscar Peterson, I've Got You Under My Skin
  • Ahmad Jamal, Ahmad's Blues
  • Boots Randolph, Stack of Dollars
  • Yusef Lateef, Ain't Misbehavin'
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Thanks for the Memory (1966 Version)
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Lonely Street
  • Eddie Lockjaw Davis with Paul Gonsalves, The Man with The Horn
  • Zoot Sims, Up a Lazy River
  • Abbey Lincoln, You Gotta Pay the Band
  • Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, A Ballad
  • Gerry Mulligan, Out Back of The Barn
  • Gerry Mulligan & Jane Duboc, Wave

Jazz After Dark, May 20, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Miles Davis, S'posin
  • Miles Davis, Saeta
  • Miles Davis, Blue in Green
  • Tommy Flanagan and the Jazzmen Detroit, You Turned the Tables on Me
  • The Tommy Flanagan Trio, In the Blue of the Evening
  • Hank Mobley, This I Dig of You
  • Hank Mobley, Dig Dis
  • Wynton Kelly, Autumn Leaves
  • Wynton Kelly, Gone with the Wind
  • Pepper Adams, Star-Crossed Lovers
  • Pepper Adams, Urban Dreams
  • Note: Paul Chambers on bass on most of the songs

Jazz After Dark, May 13, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Fats Waller, Honeysuckle Rose
  • Benny Goodman (Helen Ward vocals), Never Say Never
  • Coleman Hawkins, The Bean Stalks Again
  • Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, I'll Be Seeing You
  • Frank Sinatra, Come Fly with Me
  • Duke Ellington, C Jam Blues
  • Mundell Lowe, You Don't Know What Love Is
  • Hoagy Carmichael, Two Sleepy People
  • John Coltrane, In A Sentimental Mood
  • Billy Taylor, Paraphrase
  • Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Panama
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Hello Dolly
  • Big Miller, I Got Rhythm
  • Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, For an Unfinished Woman
  • Tomas Einarsson, Rumdrum

Jazz After Dark, May 6, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Take The "A" Train
  • Duke Ellington, Bojangles
  • Duke Ellington, Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  • Duke Ellington, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) [Live]
  • Duke Ellington, Sophisticated Lady (Live)
  • Duke Ellington with Rosemary Clooney, Blue Rose
  • Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra, Honey Hill
  • Paul Gonsalves, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Medley: Kinda Dukish, and Rockin' in Rhythm
  • Duke Ellington, C Jam Blues
  • Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Let's Do It (Live)
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Something to Live For (Live)
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) [Live at The Cote d'Azur]

Jazz After Dark, April 29, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Fats Waller, After You've Gone
  • Bunny Berigan, Black Bottom
  • Billie Holiday, God Bless the Child
  • Red Garland, I Can't Give You Anything but Love (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Milt Jackson, Blues at Twilight
  • Nat Adderley, I've Got a Crush on You (feat. Wes Montgomery & Sam Jones)
  • Barney Kessel, New Rhumba
  • Gia Maione, Louis Prima, Sam Butera & The Witnesses, When a Man Loves a Woman
  • Claude Bolling, Sentimentale
  • Butch Thompson, Home (When Shadows Fall - Red Maddock vocals)
  • Hank Jones, Mads Vinding & Billy Hart, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Jazz After Dark, April 22, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Clyde McCoy, Sugar Blues
  • New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Oh! Susannah, Dust Off That Old Piano
  • Coleman Hawkins & Buck Washington, On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Sidney Bechet, Ce môssieu qui parle (This Gentleman Who Speaks)
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet, Somebody Loves Me
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Tuxedo Junction
  • Art Farmer & Gigi Gryce, A Night At Tony's
  • Red Garland, If I Were a Bell (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Red Garland, The Very Thought of You (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Nat Adderley, Violets for Your Furs (feat. Wes Montgomery & Sam Jones)
  • Wynton Kelly, Skatin'
  • Dianne Reeves, Lullaby of Broadway
  • Stanley Turrentine, Salt Song

Jazz After Dark, April 15, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Benny Carter, All of Me
  • Erroll Garner Trio, I'll Remember April
  • Charlie Parker, K.C. Blues
  • Stan Getz, 'Round About Midnight
  • Ella Fitzgerald, From This Moment On
  • Oscar Peterson & Louis Armstrong, Moon Song
  • Blossom Dearie, Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
  • Buddy Greco, Fly Me to The Moon
  • Duke Ellington, All the Things You Are
  • Betty Roché, Day by Day
  • Yusef Lateef, Like It Is
  • Billy Butler, Satin Doll
  • Paul Desmond, Embarcadero

Jazz After Dark, April 8, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Mose Allison: The Seventh Son, Cabin In the Sky, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Dinner On the Ground
  • Miles Davis, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Don't Be That Way
  • Les McCann, The Truth
  • Eddie Harris, Exodus (Single Version)
  • Les McCann & Eddie Harris, You Got It in Your Soulness
  • Quincy Jones, Dead End
  • Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Compared to What

Jazz After Dark, April 1, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
  • Chick Webb, I Ain't Got Nobody
  • John Coltrane w Dinah Washington, Fast Movin' Mama
  • Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana
  • Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Johnny Hodges, Early Morning Rock
  • Clark Terry, C-Jam Blues
  • Cal Tjader,  Descarga Cubana
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Stardust
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Fine and Mellow
  • Johnny Hodges & Gerry Mulligan, Back Beat
  • Abbey Lincoln, Throw It Away
  • Clark Terry and Bobby Brookmeyer, Bye Bye Blackbird
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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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