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Swing and big band tonight!

• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Tommy Dorsey
• Earl Hines
• Artie Shaw
• Charlie Shavers and Maxine Sullivan
• Louis Prima
• Rosemary Clooney with Duke Ellington
• Erroll Garner
• Benny Carter
• Count Basie and His Orchestra
• Rob Agerbeek
• Birelli Lagrene, Vic Juris

Jazz vocals and virtuosos tonight!

• Helen Humes
• Art Tatum
• Arnett Cobb
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Chet Baker
• Paul Gonsalves & Enrique Villegas
• Zoot Sims
• Winston Walls & Brother Jack McDuff
• Jose James & Jef Neve
• Ximo Tebar

Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark!

• Dianne Reeves
• Les Paul
• Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer (Big Miller vocals)
• Vince Guaraldi Trio
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Count Basie & His Orchestra
• Elek Bacsik
• Ahmad Jamal
• Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges
• Zoot Sims
• Eric Gale
• Abbey Lincoln
• Lee Morgan

Show time! Jazz from movies and theater tonight --

• Bill Evans -- On Broadway
• Julie London -- Cry Me A River
• Billy Taylor Trio -- With a Little Bit of Luck
• Peggy Lee -- Bye Bye Blackbird
• Ruby Braff -- Give My Regards To Broadway
• Stan Kenton -- Tonight
• Ella Fitzgerald -- Someone to Watch Over Me
• Coleman Hawkins -- Climb Ev'ry Mountain
• Cannonball Adderley -- Matchmaker
• Wes Montgomery -- Chim Chim Cheree
• Frank Sinatra -- New York, New York
• Tony Bennett -- Somewhere Over The Rainbow
• Oscar Peterson -- The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
• Etta Jones & Houston Person -- I Could Have Danced All Night

Traditional jazz, some bebop, some cool jazz, and some of the great female vocalists tonight!

• Jelly Roll Morton
• Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines
• Billie Holiday/Bobby Tucker piano
• Charlie Parker
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Miles Davis
• Dinah Washington
• Thelonious Monk
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Stuff Smith
• Carmen McRae
• Gabor Szabo
• Dave Brubeck
• Earl "Fatha" Hines
• George Benson & Al Jarreau
• Gerry Mulligan

An hour of traditional jazz tonight -- 1939 - 68

• Louis Armstrong
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Wynonie Mr Blues Harris with Earl Bostic
• Artie Shaw
• Lester Young, Nat ‘King’ Cole & Buddy Rich
• Billie Holiday
• Louis Armstrong
• Billie & DeDe Pierce
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band
• Johnny Hodges
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Illinois Jacquet
• Roy Eldridge
• Wynton Kelly
• Kenny Burrell
• Don Sebesky

Jazz piano greats tonight! Plus Herbie Mann on flute, Toots on harmonica, George Barnes on guitar, and vocals by Diana Krall.

• George Shearing; Nat King Cole
• Red Garland
• Bobby Timmons
• Dave Brubeck
• Herbie Mann
• George Barnes Quartet
• Herbie Hancock
• Toots Thielemans
• Dorothy Donegan
• Diana Krall
• Tigran Hamasyan
• George Barnes Quartet

Serving up some soul jazz, hard bop, mainstream, and more tonight.

• Dianne Reeves
• Oscar Peterson
• Art Blakey | The Jazz Messengers
• Cannonball Adderley & Ray Brown
• Ruby Braff
• Ruby Braff & George Barnes Quartet
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Jo Jones
• Dylan Cramer

Jazz goes classical tonight! With Hubert Laws, Claude Bolling, and Bobby McFerrin with Yo Yo Ma. Some bossa nova with Jim Hall and Eriko Ishihara, rumba by Horace Silver. Ella’s live at Budapest, Steven Mayer does improvisations of Art Tatum, and Bobby Watson gives us some “post-Motown bop.” All on Jazz After Dark tonight.  

• Rosemary Clooney With Bing Crosby
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Hubert Laws
• Bobby Watson
• Horace Silver
• Bobby McFerrin with YoYoMa
• Tommy Flanagan
• Steven Mayer
• Eriko Ishihara
• Jim Hall
• Claude Bolling

Some great performers tonight! Vocals, Dixieland, soul jazz, funk, and more.

• King Cole Trio
• Sweet Emma & Her Dixieland Boys
• Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Arnett Cobb
• Anita O'Day
• Sam Lazar
• Count Basie and His Orchestra
• Chico Hamilton Lowell George Little Feat
• Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco de Lucía
• Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan
• Sarah Vaughan
• George Shearing