Jazz After Dark April 28th, 2015
Tue, 04/28/2015 - 7:48pm | Don ShorAn hour of old school jazz tonight!
An hour of old school jazz tonight!
An hour of mellow jazz!
Mostly West Coast cool jazz tonight!
Getting started with jazz: tonight’s program was selected for a listener new to jazz. These are all legendary performers, songs chosen for historic significance or as iconic examples of that artist’s work. From the 1930’s to the 1960’s: a sampling of mid-20th Century jazz tonight! Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington * Coleman Hawkins Orchestra * Count Basie * Thelonious Monk * Sidney Bechet * Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan * Billie Holiday * Dave Brubeck * Charles Mingus * Ella Fitzgerald * John Coltrane * Sarah Vaughan * Chet Baker * Ramsey Lewis
New Orleans flavor jazz, and more!
Vocals, piano, sax, and soul jazz tonight!
An hour of mellow jazz
Featuring Clark Terry, and Abbey Lincoln, tonight!
Honoring Jimmy Scott tonight!
Some of the great ladies of jazz singing tonight! Vocals by Billie Holiday * Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan * Peggy Lee * Doris Day * Anita O'Day * Andrea Wolper with Ken Filiano * Dianne Reeves. Instrumental interludes provided by Earl Hines * Lorraine Geller * Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges * Cannonball Adderley