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, Jan. 18, 2022Tue, 01/18/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: first we’ll hear from Ethel Ennis, Sonny Stitt, Etta Jones, John Coltrane, and Wes Montgomery. Then a set with Benny Carter: with Ben Webster and Barney Bigard in 1962, from a live performance in 1977, and with the American Jazz Orchestra in 1987. We’ll take it out with Zoot Sims, and Jimmy Scott. |
Jazz After Dark January 11 2022Tue, 01/11/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorMusic from the 1930s, 40s and 50s: Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie, Connie Haines and Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, and Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson on vocals and then with Johnny Hodges. We’ll hear Lu Watters and Kid Ory, the King Cole Trio, Dinah Washington with John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, Anita O'Day, Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, and the Billy Taylor Quartet. |
Jazz After Dark January 04 2022Tue, 01/04/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: Helen Humes, Shorty Rogers, Ella Fitzgerald, Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan with Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Joni James, Roland Kirk, Dave Brubeck, and Al Di Meola. |
Jazz After Dark December 28 2021Tue, 12/28/2021 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: a special program with just five songs. We’ll hear: Ella Fitzgerald -- Blues in the Night (1961 Version) |
Jazz After Dark December 21 2021Tue, 12/21/2021 - 5:00pm | Don ShorComing up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Seasonal sounds and more: Vince Guaraldi Trio, Dave Brubeck, Bola Sete, Ella Fitzgerald, Ellis Marsalis, Al Di Meola, Cyrus Chestnut, Dave Bass Trio, and Toms Mucenieks. |
Jazz After Dark December 14 2021Tue, 12/14/2021 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: the 1940s, with Mary Lou Williams' Girl Stars, Dizzy Gillespie with the Stan Getz Sextet, Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, and Earl Hines. Then 1955-6 with Herbie Mann, Herbie Nichols, Ella Fitzgerald, the Oscar Peterson Trio, and the Claude Williamson Trio. From 1962-3 we'll hear Sam Lazar, Charlie Byrd, and McCoy Tyner, and then Milcho Leviev takes it out with a 2006 version of Blues in Elf by Don Ellis. |
Jazz After Dark December 07 2021Tue, 12/07/2021 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: Jelly Roll Morton, Bobby Hackett, Joe Marsala, John Kirby Sextet, Sidney Bechet. Miles Davis with Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, and Thelonious Monk. Dinah Washington, John Lewis, Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, and the B Sharp Jazz Quartet. |
Jazz After Dark November 30 2021Tue, 11/30/2021 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra with Harry James, all from 1938-9. Then Phineas Newborn Jr. and the All Stars, some soul jazz from The Jimmy Giuffre 3. Horace Silver, Art Pepper & George Cables, Dave Turner with Guido Basso, Stanley Jordan, Buddy DeFranco with Terry Gibbs, and The Duke Robillard Jazz Trio. |
Jazz After Dark November 23 2021Tue, 11/23/2021 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis with The Modern Jazz Giants, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Bobby Hackett and Jack Teagarden, Billie Poole, Nancy Wilson, Eddie Harris, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, and Ramsey Lewis. |
Jazz After Dark November 16 2021Tue, 11/16/2021 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: Swing from Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford; Sidney Bechet and His Blue Note Jazzmen, Benny Carter & Oscar Peterson Trio, Gigi Gryce Quartet. Vocal set: Nat "King" Cole, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett. Then Art Pepper, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Rouse, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Albert Tootie Heath. |
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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.
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