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, May 7, 2024

On this episode:

  • Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra (Beiderbecke), Singin' The Blues
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Red Norvo, Hank Jones, Sleepwalker Boogie
  • Art Pepper, Jazz Me Blues
  • Milt Jackson, Sermonette
  • Ron Carter, Eric Dolphy And Mal Waldron, Bass Duet
  • Machito with Cannonball Adderley, Congo Mulence
  • Dave Brubeck/Tony Bennett, That Old Black Magic
  • Ray Bryant(p), Walter Booker Jr.(b) & Freddie Waits(ds), Gotta Travel On
  • Ray Charles, Sidewinder
  • Joni James, Just One Of Those Things
  • Herbie Mann, Never Ending Song of Love (LP Version)
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines, Pretty Baby
  • The Crusaders, Double Bubble
  • Wynton Marsalis, New Orleans Bump

Jazz After Dark, April 30, 2024

Classic jazz tonight:

  • Erskine Hawkins, After Hours
  • Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump
  • Benny Goodman (Helen Ward vocals), You Turned the Tables On Me
  • Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Jeru
  • Doris Day with Les Brown, Sentimental Journey
  • Doris Day, Makin' Whoopee
  • Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet, Mamblues
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Love For Sale
  • Art Pepper with Conte Candoli, Old Devil Moon
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines, Black Coffee
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, I'm Beginning to See the Light
  • Abbey Lincoln, Brother Can You Spare A Dime
  • Stephane Grappelli & Barney Kessel, It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

Jazz After Dark, April 23, 2024

On this episode: we’ve got some '30s jazz first, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, and Lester Young. Then samba and bossa nova, with Stan Getz our featured artist, working with Gary McFarland, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and we’ll hear Paul Desmond and Walter Wanderley.

For the rest of the program, it’s Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, The Rosenberg Trio, Dianne Reeves with Fabrizio Bosso, Allen Toussaint, and Jim Hall.

Jazz After Dark, April 16, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Gene Krupa, Opus One (Anita O'Day vocals)
  • Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
  • Ella Fitzgerald, I Loves You Porgy
  • Chet Baker, Extra Mild
  • Helen Merrill, Night And Day
  • Benny Carter, Cherry
  • Joni James, Dream A Little Dream Of Me
  • Grover Washington, Jr., Lover Man
  • Don Ellis, 8 Nicole
  • Dorothy Donegan, These Foolish Things
  • Cal Tjader/Carmen McRae, Besame Mucho
  • Oscar Peterson with Joe Pass, A-Tisket, A-Tasket
  • Boogaloo Joe Jones, Brown Bag

Jazz After Dark, April 9, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Peggy Lee, I Don't Know Enough About You
  • Erroll Garner, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Art Pepper, Nutmeg
  • Julie London, Blue Moon
  • Jimmy Smith, Embraceable You
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Frank Devol's Orchestra, Goody, Goody
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, I'm Beginning To See The Light
  • Gene Krupa (Anita O'Day vocals), Georgia On My Mind
  • Oscar Peterson & Ray Brown, You Are My Sunshine (Live)
  • Cal Tjader, Linda Chicana
  • Abdullah Ibrahim, Just You, Just Me
  • June Katz, Smooth Sailin'
  • Stan Getz, Kenny Barron, Soul Eyes

Jazz After Dark, April 2, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Glenn Miller, Chattanooga Choo Choo
  • Artie Shaw, Back Bay Shuffle
  • Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, L'Uccellin volo' volo'
  • Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, Il Ritmo dell'amore
  • Sidney Bechet, Sweet Lorraine
  • Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith , Here Comes The Boogie Man - 20 -
  • Benny Goodman, Wholly Cats
  • Erroll Garner, Somebody Loves Me
  • Erroll Garner, Stardust
  • Illinois Jacquet, Memories Of You
  • Tommy Dorsey, I'll Never Smile Again/Tico Tico
  • Ella Fitzgerald (with The Delta Rhythm Boys), For Sentimental Reasons
  • Mary Lou Williams' Girl Stars, Harmony Grits
  • The Mills Brothers, I'll Be Around
  • The Mills Brothers, Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)

Jazz After Dark, March 26, 2024

Tonight we’ll hear:

  • Billie Holiday, Good Morning Heartache
  • Benny Goodman, Oh! Baby
  • Ella Fitzgerald, My Funny Valentine (Live)
  • Django Reinhardt, Nuages
  • Chet Baker, How Long Has This Been Going On
  • Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana (Live)
  • Cannonball Adderley, Straight No Chaser
  • Yusef Lateef, Kongsberg
  • Ramsey Lewis Trio, You Don't Know Me
  • Gerry Mulligan, Walk On The Water
  • Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef, Trouble In Mind (Live)
  • Charlie Byrd and the Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza

Jazz After Dark, March 19, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Nat King Cole Trio, Honeysuckle Rose
  • Thelonious Monk, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Gerry Mulligan, The Preacher
  • Miles Davis,  Will O' the Wisp
  • Sergio Mendes, On Green Dolphin Street
  • Herbie Mann & The Bill Evans Trio, Nirvana
  • Ed Thigpen, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Rosa & Tommy Flanagan, Old Devil Moon
  • Don Ellis, Quiet Longing
  • Milcho Leviev & Multiple Personalities, Invincible
  • Ramsey Lewis, Do What You Wanna
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Echoes of Primitive Ohio and Chili Dogs
  • Count Basie, (We Ain't Got) No Special Thing
  • The Crusaders, Stomp and Buck Dance

Jazz After Dark, March 12, 2024

It’s mostly blues, funk, and soul jazz tonight.

  • Dave Brubeck Quintet, Alan Dawson’s drum solo from Take Five
  • Art Tatum, Blues In C
  • Lou Donaldson, Grits And Gravy
  • Benny Carter, Cotton Tail
  • Horace Silver, The Skunky Funky Blues
  • Horace Silver Quintet, The Preacher
  • James Rivers, Smokey the Funky Soprano
  • Chico O'Farrill, Guaguasi
  • Benny Golson Funky Quintet, Blues March
  • Houston Person, Please Send Me Someone to Love

Jazz After Dark, March 5, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Erroll Garner, All of Me
  • Artie Shaw, Too Marvelous for Words
  • Earl Bostic, Always
  • Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges, Sentimental Lady
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Paul Gonsalves & Enrique Villegas - i can't get started
  • Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan, Unfinished Woman
  • Boogaloo Joe Jones, Jamaica Farewell
  • Dianne Reeves, I Concentrate On You
  • Jim Hall, Two's Blues
  • Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza
  • David Benoit, Charlie Brown Theme
  • Biréli Lagrène, Come Fly with Me
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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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