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, Feb. 17, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Fletcher Henderson, Hot and Anxious
  • Benny Goodman, Moon Glow
  •  Laurindo Almeida - Jazz West Coast, Speak Low
  • Benny Carter, June in January
  • Gigi Gryce Quartet, It Don't Mean A Thing
  • Buddy Greco, Something's Gotta Give
  • Tiny Grimes, Frankie and Johnny (feat. Jerome Richardson)
  • Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra & Dodo Marmarosa, The Moose
  • Chet Baker, It Never Entered My Mind
  • Ella Fitzgerald, You're My Thrill
  • Erroll Garner, That Amsterdam Swing
  • Chris Barber, I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
  • Cornell Dupree, 'Round Midnight
  • Diane Lines, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
  • Dick Wellstood, Red Sails in the Sunset

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 10, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Bix Beiderbecke, Three Blind Mice
  • Buddy DeFranco, Little Girl Blue
  • Barney Kessel, Blues For A Playboy
  • Tal Farlow, Night and Day
  • Annie Ross and Zoot Sims, You're Driving Me Crazy
  • Annie Ross, I'm Nobody's Baby
  • Howard Roberts, Dirty Old Bossa Nova
  • Chuck Wayne Trio, Lady's Love Song
  • Nara Leão, Desafinado
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Sunday
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Days of Wine and Roses
  • Cedar Walton, This Guys In Love With You
  • Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, Miles Ahead
  • Jimmy Cobb, Book's Bossa (Roy Hargrove trumpet)

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 3, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Milt Jackson & Ray Charles, Love On My Mind
  • Cannonball Adderley, Another Kind of Soul
  • Lou Donaldson, Blues Walk
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Pennies From Heaven
  • Gene Ammons, Blue Ammons
  • Bobby Timmons, Dat Dare
  • Horace Silver, Sister Sadie
  • Stanley Turrentine, Gravy Train
  • Brother Jack McDuff, Talkin' 'Bout My Woman
  • Gabor Szabo, Gary McFarland & Lena Horne, The Fool On the Hill
  • Houston Person (Etta Jones vocals), Don't Misunderstand
  • Houston Person, All Soul

Jazz After Dark, Jan. 27, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Gigi Gryce Quartet, In A Sentimental Mood
  • Sarah Vaughan with Count Basie and his Orchestra, The Gentleman is a Dope
  • Horace Silver Quintet, Señor Blues [Bill Henderson vocals]
  • Annie Ross, I Don't Want to Cry Anymore
  • Hank Crawford, Angel Eyes
  • Ella Fitzgerald, That Old Back Magic
  • Wynton Kelly, Temperance
  • Don Wikerson, Camp Meetin'
  • Art Blakey, The Song Is You
  • Catherine Russell, I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
  • Lucky Thompson, Soul Carnival

Jazz After Dark, Jan. 20, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, Me, Myself and I
  • Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, The One I Love
  • Doris Day with John Rarig & The Mellomen, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
  • Claude Williamson Trio, Just One of Those Things
  • Red Garland, I Know Why (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Louie Bellson & Pearl Bailey, Zing Went the Strings of My Heart
  • Sonny Clark, I'm Just a Lucky So and So
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Bossa Nova U.S.A. (Live)
  • Art Farmer Quartet, Sing Me Softly of The Blues
  • Horace Parlan, Oh So Blue
  • Poncho Sanchez, Bésame Mamá
  • Bernardo Sassetti with Borja Barrueta, Javier Colina & Perico Sambeat, Please Tell Me Now

Jazz After Dark, Jan. 6, 2026

On tonight's show:

  • Benny Goodman, Oh! Look At Me Now (feat. Helen Forrest)
  • The Mills Brothers, Paper Doll (Single)
  • Art Farmer & Gigi Gryce, Blue Lights
  • Pérez Prado & His Orchestra, Maria Bonita
  • Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan with Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans, Airmail Special
  • Chet Baker, Moonlight Becomes You
  • Stan Getz, 'Tis Autumn
  • Clark Terry (Mary Osborne, guitar), Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
  • Chico O'Farrill & Clark Terry, Spanish Rice
  • Clark Terry, Jam Session & Oscar Peterson, Misty
  • Paul Gonsalves, Clark's Bars
  • Paul Gonsalves, It's Something That You Ought To Know
  • Claude Bolling & Alexandre Lagoya, Afriçaine
  • Diana Krall, Only Trust Your Heart
  • Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, Samba Triste

Jazz After Dark, Dec. 30, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Milenberg Joys
  • Wingy Manone and His Orchestra, Black Coffee
  • Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams, Walkin' And Swingin'
  • Casa Loma Orchestra, Smoke Rings
  • Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise
  • Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra, After Hours
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Undecided (feat. Chick Webb and His Orchestra)
  • Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Moonlight Serenade
  • Benny Goodman Orchestra, Sing, Sing, Sing
  • Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra, Charlie Horse
  • Peanuts Holland, It's Wonderful
  • Marty Paich, Easy Listnin'
  • George Lewis, Doctor Jazz
  • George Lewis, Lou-Easy-an-i-a
  • Heritage Hall Jazz Band, Bill Bailey (Featuring Blanche Thomas)
  • Boots Randolph, Take The "A" Train

Jazz After Dark, Dec. 23, 2025

On tonight's show, West Coast cool and some seasonal jazz:

  • The Dave Brubeck Trio, Indiana
  • Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Nights at the Turntable
  • Shorty Rogers & Teddy Charles, Margo
  • Stan Getz, You Turned the Tables on Me
  • Art Pepper, Begin the Beguine
  • Zoot Sims, You're Driving Me Crazy
  • Zoot Sims, Slingin Hash
  • Bud Shank, New Groove
  • Cal Tjader, The Bilbao Song
  • Vince Guaraldi Quintet, Linus and Lucy
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio, Christmas Is Coming
  • Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, Balcony Rock
  • Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, Blue Dove
  • The Modern Jazz Quartet, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That

Jazz After Dark, Dec. 16, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Ella Fitzgerald, Holiday in Harlem (feat. Chick Webb and His Orchestra)
  • Joe Holiday, Blue Holiday
  • Louis Armstrong & Benny Carter and His Orchestra, Christmas in New Orleans
  • Benny Carter, Roses in December
  • Duke Ellington, December Blues
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio, Christmas Time Is Here
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio, Greensleeves
  • Wes Montgomery, Snowfall
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
  • Art Pepper, Winter Moon
  • Chet Baker, Silent Night
  • Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, Concierto De Aranjuez
  • Al Di Meola, Etude

Jazz After Dark, Dec. 9, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Hoagy Carmichael, Stardust
  • The Little Red Blount Quartet & Helen O'Connell, Tangerine
  • Miles Davis Nonet, Boplicity
  • John Lewis, Easy Living
  • Anita O'Day, A Lover Is Blue
  • Kai Winding, Black Coffee
  • Kai Winding, Sidewinder
  • The Ella Fitzgerald Quartet, Body and Soul
  • Stéphane Grappelli & Stuff Smith, This Can't Be Love
  • Urbie Green, Please Send Me Someone to Love
  • Toots Thielemans, Joe Pass, and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedesen, Someday My Prince Will Come
  • Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, Maids of Cadiz
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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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