Jazz After Dark

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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Live Tuesday 8-9pm
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Jazz After Dark, Sept. 9, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Glenn Miller, Little Brown Jug
  • Duke Ellington, Take The A Train
  • Lester Young & His Band, These Foolish Things
  • Art Tatum, Willow Weep For Me
  • Count Basie, Cherokee
  • Charlie Shavers and Maxine Sullivan, Dark Eyes
  • Claude Williamson Trio, Stompin' at the Savoy
  • Tony Scott, My Funny Valentine
  • Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Let's Fall in Love
  • Art Pepper, You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Harry Carney & The Duke's Men, Jeepers Creepers
  • McCoy Tyner, Satin Doll
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, Tippin' In
  • Zoot Sims, Somebody Loves Me

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 2, 2025

West Coast cool jazz on tonight’s show:

  • Buddy Tate, Vine Street Breakdown
  • Shelly Manne & His Men, Summer Night
  • Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me
  • Cy Touff, It's Sand'Man
  • Miles Davis, Just Squeeze Me
  • Shorty Rogers, Infinity promenade
  • Gerry Mulligan, May-Reh
  • Stan Getz, I Only Have Eyes for You
  • Dave Brubeck Trio, Indiana
  • Dave Brubeck, Zen is When
  • Chet Baker, Star Eyes
  • Cal Tjader, Morning
  • Tito Puente, Take Five

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 26, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, The Man I Love
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Nona
  • Buck Clayton, Buck's Bon Voyage
  • Red Garland, Stompin' At the Savoy (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Ahmad Jamal, Old Devil Moon
  • Ahmad Jamal, No Greater Love (Live)
  • Yusef Lateef, Oboe Blues
  • Ahmad Jamal, Rhumba No 2
  • Gil Evans, Chant of the Weed
  • Helen Merrill with Gil Evans, People will say we're in love
  • The Mills Brothers, Cab Driver
  • Chet Baker, Line for Lyons (Live)
  • Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef, I Remember Italy (Live)

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 19, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Louis Armstrong, Sittin' In The Sun
  • Nat "King" Cole, Route 66
  • Julie London, Goody Goody
  • Mundell Lowe, Crazy Rhythm
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Horace Parlan, There Is No Greater Love
  • Etta Jones, And the Angels Sing
  • Jacy Parker, But Beautiful
  • Bud Shank, A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
  • Nina Simone, Mood Indigo
  • The Jazz At the Philharmonic All-Stars, I Surrender Dear (feat. Roy Eldridge)
  • Abdullah Ibrahim, Manenberg (Revisited)
  • The Charlie Byrd Trio, Jive at Five (Live)

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 12, 2025

Six longer sets tonight:

  • Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Charlie Shavers, and more, Funky Blues
  • Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan, 'Round Midnight (feat. Wilbur Ware & Shadow Wilson)
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Ben's Blues
  • Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges, Harry Edison trumpet, Basin Street Blues
  • Miles Davis, Solea
  • Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz, The Two Lonely People

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 5, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime
  • Major Glenn Miller & The American Band of The Allied Expeditionary Force, Caribbean Clipper
  • Dave Pike, cattin' latin
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Good Times Blues
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Blues in Hoss's Flat (feat. Waymon Reed, Jimmy Forrest & Al Grey)
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Tommy Flanagan, Night and Day
  • Marcos Valle, So Nice (Summer Samba) - Marcos Valle
  • Charlie Byrd, Favela
  • Jim Hall, Curacao Doloroso
  • The Hot Club Of San Francisco, Giselle - Waltz D'Entichement
  • Grover Washington Jr., Estate (Ess-tah-tay)

Jazz After Dark, July 29, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Benny Carter, Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Artie Shaw, What Is This Thing Called Love?
  • Ella Fitzgerald, In a Mellow Tone
  • Miles Davis, Doxy
  • Billie Holiday, Embraceable You
  • Eddie Harris, Exodus
  • Gerry Mulligan & The Concert Jazz Band, Body and Soul
  • Kenny Burrell Octet, If I Should Lose You
  • Count Basie, Makin' Whoopee
  • Frank Sinatra, I've Got You Under My Skin
  • Eddie Lockjaw Davis with Paul Gonsalves, If I Should Lose You
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bye Bye Blackbird
  • Dianne Reeves, The Nearness of You / Misty
  • Ximo Tebar, St. Thomas

Jazz After Dark, July 22, 2025

Coming up tonight, it’s Duke Ellington and some of the great musicians who worked with him. The songs:

  • Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra, Cotton Club Stomp
  • Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra, I Was Made to Love You
  • Duke Ellington, Come Sunday (with Mahalia Jackson)
  • Billy Strayhorn, Take the "A" Train
  • Johnny Hodges, Art Pepper Quintett / What's New
  • Johnny Hodges & Duke Ellington, Moon Glow
  • Johnny Hodges with Ray Nance vocals, Just Squeeze Me
  • Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
  • Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges, Wabash Blues
  • Duke Ellington, Take the "A" Train
  • Paul Gonsalves, I'm Beginning to See the Light
  • Harry Carney & The Duke's Men, Five O’clock Drag
  • Harry Carney, Paul Gonsalves, Harold Ashby & The Duke's Men, Backstairs
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Duke's Place

Jazz After Dark, July 15, 2025

Jazz with French style tonight:

  • Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France, Echoes of France (La Marseillaise)
  • Django Reinhardt, How High The Moon
  • Charlie Parker, April In Paris
  • Sidney Bechet, Petite Fleur
  • Jazzmen Detroit (Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Pepper Adams, Kenny Burrell & Kenny Clarke), Afternoon in Paris
  • Ella Fitzgerald, I Love Paris
  • Joséphine Baker, Don't Touch My Tomatoes
  • Nina Simone, Ne Me Quitte Pas
  • Toots Thielemans, Ne Me Quitte Pas
  • Jimmy Rowles & Michael Moore , Waltz 70
  • Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love
  • The Hot Club of San Francisco, Jitterbug Waltz
  • Stéphane Grappelli & McCoy Tyner, Summertime
  • Claude Bolling & Stephane Grappelli, Blue Skies

Jazz After Dark, July 8, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Joe Venuti's Blue Four, Raggin' The Scale
  • Coleman Hawkins, After You've Gone
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, A Sailboat In the Moonlight
  • Artie Shaw, Diga Diga Doo
  • Oscar Aleman, Diga Diga Do
  • Oscar Aleman, Mia Casita Pequeñita
  • Oscar Aleman, Improvisaciones Sobre Boogie Woogie
  • Benny Carter, June Is Busting Out All Over
  • Cannonball Adderley, Love For Sale
  • Art Blakey, Let's Take 16 Bars
  • Wes Montgomery, Something Like Bags
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Imagine My Frustration
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet ft. Jim Hall, Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  • Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, I'm A Stranger Here Myself
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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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