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, March 25, 2025

Tonight’s show is a retrospective on Louis Armstrong’s career, with selections from across the decades:

  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Potato Head Blues, 1927

From 1928 – 31: 

  • What Did I Do to Be So Black And Blue
  • The Peanut Vendor
  • Louis Armstrong Orchestra:
  • When You're Smiling
  • On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Red Sails in the Sunset
  • Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Farewell to Storyville
  • Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Atlanta Blues
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Can't We Be Friends
  • Louis Armstrong & Russell Garcia, Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way
  • Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Struttin' with Some Barbecue
  • Louis Armstrong & Sy Oliver, I Can't Give You Anything but Love
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place (Live on The Ed Sullivan Show, Dec. 17, 1961)
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Azalea

Louis Armstrong vocals, 1960s:

  • A Kiss to Build a Dream On
  • What a Wonderful World

Jazz After Dark, March 18, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Bix Beiderbecke, Copenhagen
  • Glenn Miller, Adios
  • Benny Goodman, Rose Room
  • Benny Goodman, Big John's Special
  • Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Fools Rush In
  • Doris Day and Les Brown, Sentimental Journey
  • Billie Holiday, What A Little Moonlight Can Do
  • Ella Fitzgerald, You're the Top
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Serenade in Blue
  • Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
  • Nat "King" Cole, Nature Boy
  • Kenny Burrell Octet, A String of Pearls
  • Dave Brubeck, Upstage Rumba
  • Clark Terry and Paul Gonsalves, Funky
  • Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill, Macarena
  • Clark Terry, Jam Session with Oscar Peterson, Misty
  • Dianne Reeves (with Clark Terry), I Hadn't Anyone ‘til You

Jazz After Dark, March 11, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Louis Armstrong, What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue
  • Gene Krupa and His Orchestra with Anita O’Day and Roy Eldridge, Let Me Off Uptown
  • Frank Sinatra, Stormy Weather
  • Art Pepper with Sonny Redd, These Foolish Things
  • Ahmad Jamal, Music! Music! Music!
  • James Clay, Pavanne
  • Stuff Smith, They Can't Take That Away from Me
  • Ella Fitzgerald, The Man I Love
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Over the Rainbow
  • Eubie Blake, Spanish Venus
  • Charlie Byrd, Saudade de Bahía
  • Gerry Mulligan, Walking Shoes
  • Cassandra Wilson, O Sole Mio Funk
  • New Orleans' Own the Dukes of Dixieland, Petite Fleur

Jazz After Dark, March 4, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Louis Armstrong Orchestra, Star Dust
  • The Bud Freeman Trio, Three Little Words
  • Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Long Gone (From the Bowlin' Green)
  • Artie Shaw And His Gramercy, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
  • Terry Pollard, Emaline
  • Nat King Cole, When I Fall in Love
  • Billy Taylor, Poinciana
  • Hank Mobley, If I Should Lose You
  • John Coltrane, Naima
  • Arnett Cobb, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
  • Oscar Peterson, C-Jam Blues
  • Frank Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra Ella Fitzgerald the Lady is a Tramp
  • Joe Henderson, Miles Ahead
  • Wolfgang Haffner, Children of Sanchez

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 25, 2025

On tonight's show: 

  • The Adrian Rollini Quartet, Josephine
  • Bunny Berigan, Chicken and Waffles
  • Benny Carter, Takin' My Time
  • The Mills Brothers, Till Then
  • Andy Kirk, A Mellow Bit of Rhythm
  • Peggy Lee, Easy Living
  • Mundell Lowe, We'll Be Together Again
  • Nat "King" Cole, Caravan
  • Billy Taylor, A Little Southside Soul
  • John Coltrane, Soul Eyes
  • Arnett Cobb, Nitty Gritty
  • Phineas Newborn Jr., Four
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place (aka C-Jam Blues)
  • Dave Brubeck, Fujiyama
  • The Howard Roberts Quartet, Summer Wind
  • The Howard Roberts Quartet, Three O'Clock in The Morning

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 18, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Bing Crosby, Sweet Georgia Brown, 1932
  • Chu Berry, Body and Soul, 1938
  • The Spencer Trio, Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? 1938
  • Winifred Atwell, Choo Choo Samba, 1950s
  • Claude Williamson Trio, Stella by Starlight, 1956
  • Illinois Jacquet, Have You Met Miss Jones? 1957
  • Doris Day, There Will Never Be Another You, 1957
  • Clark Terry, Take the A Train, 1957
  • Duke Ellington, Night and Day, 1958
  • Howard Roberts, When the Sun Comes Out, 1959
  • Ella Fitzgerald, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Live at the Crescendo), 1961
  • Oscar Peterson Trio, Moten Swing, 1963
  • Paul Desmond, The Theme from Black Orpheus, 1963
  • Zoot Sims, The Girl from Ipanema, 1977
  • The Rosenberg Trio, Django, 1995
  • The Spencer Wyatt Big Band, Blues in The Bucket, 2001

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 11, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra, Pompton Turnpike
  • Artie Shaw And His New Music, Free Wheeling
  • Erskine Hawkins, Tippin' In
  • Don Byas, I Got Rhythm
  • Louis Armstrong, When You're Smiling
  • Gerry Mulligan, Sextet
  • Etta Jones, Bye Bye Blackbird
  • Herb Alpert, A Taste of Honey
  • Eubie Blake, Tricky Fingers
  • Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill, The Peanut Vendor
  • Ella Fitzgerald & The Tommy Flanagan Trio, Night and Day
  • Herb Alpert & Hugh Masekela, Besame Mucho
  • Sonny Rollins, And Then My Love I Found You
  • Art Pepper & George Cables, Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
  • Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola & John McLaughlin, Manhã de Carnaval

Jazz After Dark, Jan. 21, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • King Cole Trio, Swingin' The Blues
  • Jimmy Scott & Lionel Hampton, Everybody's Somebody's Fool
  • Gerald Wiggins, Coffee Time
  • Russ Freeman, Art Pepper Quartet, Everything Happens to Me
  • Phineas Newborn Jr. and All Stars, Take It Slow, Joe
  • Kenny Dorham Quintet, But Beautiful
  • Anita O'Day, That Old Feeling
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, In a Mellotone
  • Ella Fitzgerald, I'll Never Fall In Love Again
  • Stanley Turrentine, I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
  • Pharoah Sanders, The Nearness of You
  • Milt Jackson and the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Bags' Groove
  • Dianne Reeves, What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Panama
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Comments

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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