Old favorites and jazz standards tonight:
Fats Waller & His Rhythm *
Benny Goodman *
Count Basie *
Artie Shaw *
Erroll Garner *
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra *
Thelonious Monk *
Billie Holiday *
Django Reinhardt *
Julie London *
Cannonball Adderley *
Dave Brubeck *
John Coltrane *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Tony Bennett *
New Orleans, Ella, cool, standards, funk, and blues jazz tonight --
George Lewis *
Art Pepper *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Gerry Mulligan Chet Baker *
Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan *
Eric Dolphy *
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington *
Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges *
Benny Carter, Jam Session with Oscar Peterson *
Count Basie and His Orchestra *
Benny Golson Funky Quintet *
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band & Robert Randolph *
Coming up tonight....
Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges *
The Nat "King" Cole Trio *
Ike Quebec Quintet *
Peggy Lee *
Charlie Parker & His Quintet *
Sarah Vaughan *
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington *
Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz *
Pete Fountain *
Oscar Peterson *
Paul Desmond *
Herbie Mann & Joao Gilberto With Antonio Carlos Jobim *
Eddie Jefferson *
Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges *
Ella Fitzgerald & Jimmy Jones Trio with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra *
Stanley Jordan *
Coming up tonight, lots of live performances by some jazz greats:
Count Basie *
Benny Goodman *
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington *
Ramsey Lewis Trio *
Dave Brubeck *
Gabor Szabo *
Clark Terry, jam session with Oscar Peterson *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Oscar Peterson *
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Johnny Hodges *
The Rosenberg Trio *
Grover Washington Jr. *
Count Basie *
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli *
Artie Shaw *
Erroll Garner *
Rosemary Clooney with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra *
Lee Morgan *
Ella Fitzgerald & Buddy Bregman Orchestra *
Ben Webster Quintet *
Jimmy Witherspoon, Gerry Mulligan, and Ben Webster *
Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker *
George Shearing & The Montgomery Brothers *
Charlie Byrd *
Pete Fountain *
Paul Desmond *
Jim Cox *
Benny Goodman *
Edith Piaf *
Earl Bostic *
Pete Fountain -- New Orleans jazz medley *
B.B. King *
Chet Baker *
Ella Fitzgerald & Buddy Bregman Orchestra *
Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz *
Abdullah Ibrahim & Buddy Tate *
Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie *
Stanley Jordan *
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton *
Focus on the 40's and 50's tonight!
Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb and His Orchestra *
Glenn Miller *
Benny Goodman *
Artie Shaw *
Helen Forrest with Harry James *
Erroll Garner *
Les Brown *
Gia Maione, Louis Prima, Sam Butera & The Witnesses *
Art Pepper *
Earl Bostic *
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington *
Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Toots Thielemans *
Toots Thielemans *
Buddy Rich *
Shirley Horn *
Diana Krall *
Bobby Darin * Mack The Knife --
Buddy Tate * Kansas City Local --
Earl Bostic * Flamingo --
Earl Bostic * Harlem Nocturne --
Jimmy Witherspoon & Gerry Mulligan * Trouble In Mind --
Cal Tjader * Cubano Chant --
Ella Fitzgerald * Too Darn Hot --
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington * Cottontail --
Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz * Desafinado (45 Rpm Issue Single) --
Coleman Hawkins * Cry Like the Wind --
Buddy Rich * Loose --
Buddy Rich * Wack Wack --
Herb Alpert & Hugh Masekela * She-Been --
Shirley Horn * My, How The Time Goes By --
Boots Randolph * King of the Road (Live) --
Boots Randolph * L-O-V-E --
Live show pre-empted by election coverage. Playlist for 6/9 and 6/11 rebroadcast:
Benny Goodman * Swing Into Spring --
Teddy Wilson * You Go To My Head -- 1945
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet * I Can't Get Started -- 1945
Tadd Dameron's Sextet * Lady Bird -- 1948
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong * A Fine Romance (1957 Version) -- 1956-57
Sonny Rollins * St. Thomas -- 1956
Eubie Blake * Troublesome Ivories --
Ramsey Lewis * Spanish Grease -- 1972
Gerry Mulligan & Mel Tormé * Walkin' Shoes -- 1982
Chet Baker * Blues In The Closet -- 1962
Boots Randolph * Harlem Nocturne -- 1964
Claude Bolling * Yesterdays -- 1970
Modern Jazz Quartet * Rose of the Rio Grande -- 1972
Bobby MCFerrin & YoYoMa * Hush Little Baby -- 1992
I've got a speaking engagement May 24, so the Davis Garden Show program will be a compilation of conversations Lois and I have had recently all about tomatoes. See you next week!