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Spanning the decades with jazz! Selections from the 30s, the 60s, and the 90s.

• Benny Goodman 
• The Mills Brothers & Ella Fitzgerald
• Billie Holiday 
• Peggy Lee 
• Django Reinhardt 
• Modern Jazz Quartet
• Mundell Lowe And His All Stars 
• Sam Lazar  *  Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd 
• Vince Guaraldi 
• Chico Hamilton 
• Eva Cassidy 
• Lew Tabackin
• Dianne Reeves 
• Toots Thielemans

An hour of upbeat jazz for a summer evening!

• Major Glenn Miller & The American Band Of The Allied Expeditionary Force
• Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
• Frank Sinatra; Tommy Dorsey; Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
• Jimmy Hamilton
• Ahmad Jamal
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Keely Smith; Louis Prima
• Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges
• Big Miller; Bob Florence Big Band
• Big Miller; Bob Florence Big Band
• Cannonball Adderley
• Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
• Jo Jones
• Bria Skonberg; Dal Richards; Jamie Croil
• Chet Baker

Summertime means Bossa Nova!

Jazz from the 30’s and 40’s tonight!  

• Harry Roy & His Orchestra
• Billie Holiday
• Benny Goodman
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Charlie Christian
• Bunny Berigan (Kay Little vocals)
• Erroll Garner
• Artie Shaw
• Glenn Miller
• Thelonious Monk
• King Cole Trio
• Miles Davis
• Charlie Parker
• Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, MIlt Jackson
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Getz, Quinichette & Sims

Great jazz from live performances tonight! 

• Joe Williams with The Count Basie Orchestra
• Ella Fitzgerald in Japan 
• Ramsey Lewis 
• Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan at Carnegie Hall 
• George Benson at Carnegie
• Dave Brubeck Quartet 25th Anniversary Reunion
• Mel Tormé, the Classic Concert Live
• Jaki Byard and Tommy Flanagan
• Toots Thielemans
• The Taylor Eigsti Trio, Live at Filoli
  

Jazz from soul and folk tonight. Soul jazz from the early 60’s: Hank Crawford * Gene Ammons * Lou Donaldson. Leadbelly songs by Clifford Jordan and Sandra Douglass. Then some early Pat Metheny, followed by 1990’s work: Eva Cassidy * Winston Walls & Brother Jack McDuff * Abbey Lincoln.

Davis Enterprise film critic Derrick Bang reviews Miles Ahead.

Coming up at 3 pm today, Gary Chew has some Miles on Third Streaming.

Jazz After Dark program featuring Miles Davis re-broadcasts Saturday at 9 pm, and Gary's show rebroadcasts immediately after.

Jazz After Dark archive.  Just click and play!

Miles Ahead, the new biographical movie about Miles Davis starring Don Cheadle in the title role, opens this week in theaters in Sacramento. A fitting time for Jazz After Dark to feature Miles Davis. Nine Grammy awards, 48 studio albums, 36 live albums: Miles Davis was one of the most influential and creative musicians of all time. We’ll hear selections from some of Miles’ work recorded 1951 – 1958: Bags' Groove * Miles: The New Miles Davis * Blue Moods * Dig * Porgy & Bess * Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet. Then work by others celebrating some of his signature pieces. Eddie Jefferson vocalizing So What, Al Jarreau on Heaven and Earth, and two by Shirley Horn: You Won’t Forget Me, with Miles in a rare performance as sideman, and then Shirley’s version of Summertime. Finally, Maids of Cadiz from the last Miles Davis album, Miles Davis and Quincy Jones Live at Montreux.

New Orleans jazz tonight! Pete Fountain * Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday * Louis Armstrong * Jim Robinson's New Orleans Band * Gerry Mulligan Quartet * Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers * Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington * Bobby Hackett * Louis Prima * James Rivers * New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland * James Rivers * Preservation Hall Jazz Band * Roy Clark & Joe Pass