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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Jazz After Dark, April 28, 2026

Coming up tonight, some early jazz plus jazz themes from movies. We'll hear from George Gershwin, Ray Eberle, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Julie London, Gil Evans, Winifred Atwell, Boots Randolph, Kai Winding, Henry Mancini, Wes Montgomery, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Reitherman & Phil Harris, Louis Armstrong, Shirley Bassey, Vince Guaraldi, and the Claude Bolling Big Band.

Jazz After Dark, April 7, 2026

Tonight's show has boogie woogie and more by Artie Shaw, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith, New Orleans' Own the Dukes of Dixieland, Mongo Santamaria, Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis, Santana (Greg Rolie keyboard), Gabor Szabo, Paco De Lucia, the Rosenberg Trio, Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie, Sue Palmer, and the Spencer Wyatt Big Band.

Jazz After Dark, March 24, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Count Basie, Dance of the Gremlins
  • Lester Young and His Orchestra, Back to the Land
  • The Complete Illinois Jacquet, Jumpin' At The Woodside
  • Sarah Vaughan, Street of Dreams (78 rpm Version)
  • Sarah Vaughan, Black Coffee
  • Helen O'Connell, All of Me
  • Tiny Grimes, Annie Laurie (Jerome Richardson sax)
  • Jerome Richardson, Candied Sweets
  • George Lewis, Mecca Flat Blues
  • Kai Winding, Michie (Slow Version)
  • Kai Winding, Michie (Fast Version)
  • Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, Samba de Uma Nota So
  • Stan Getz, Night and Day
  • Dick Wellstood, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Take the 'A' Train

Jazz After Dark, March 10, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Blossom Dearie, I Won't Dance
  • Art Pepper, Broadway
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Rocks in My Bed
  • Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller And Yusef Lateef, Flutie
  • Anita O'Day, What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • Yusef Lateef, Kongsberg
  • Yusef Lateef, Six Miles Next Door
  • Al Hibbler & Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bye Bye Blackbird 2
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, I'll Be Seeing You
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real
  • Gerry Mulligan, Walk on The Water

Jazz After Dark, March 3, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Red Norvo, Remember
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Tickle Toe (78rpm Version)
  • Bennie Moten, Moten Swing
  • Ziggy Elman, I Have Everything to Live For
  • Dinah Washington, John Coltrane, I Can't Remember
  • Ella Fitzgerald, So Rare
  • Helen O'Connell, Bye Bye Blues
  • Jimmy Smith, One O'Clock Jump
  • Duke Ellington, Moonbow
  • Miles Davis, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (45-RPM Single Edit)
  • Hugh Masekela, Inner Crisis
  • Count Basie, Mean to me
  • Count Basie, Blues for Joe Turner
  • Al Di Meola, Coral
  • Fraser MacPherson Quartet, Come Sunday

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 24, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Cab Calloway, Minne The Moocher
  • Jimmie Lunceford, My Blue Heaven
  • Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Red Norvo, Hank Jones: Diga Diga Doo
  • Gene Krupa, Mulligan Stew
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Splanky
  • The Vinnie Burke Quartet, Time Out
  • Stan Getz Quartet & Mose Allison, Down Beat
  • Sonny Criss, Memories Of You
  • Zoot Sims, On the Alamo
  • Dinah Washington, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (feat. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra)
  • Grant Green, Born to Be Blue
  • Sarah Vaughan, Till the End of Time
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun (1964 Version)
  • Yusef Lateef, Slippin' And Slidin'
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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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