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, June 11, 2024

On tonight's show:

  • Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Couldn't Help It
  • Chick Webb, Deep In a Dream (1939, feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
  • Harry James, All Of Me (Helen Ward vocals)
  • Sonny Stitt, Skylark
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Duke Ellington, Kinda Dukish & Rockin' in Rhythm
  • Brew Moore, Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
  • Art Pepper, Walkin' Shoes
  • Art Pepper and Sonny Redd, What's New
  • Art Pepper, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
  • Art Pepper, 'Round Midnight
  • Stuff Smith, Undecided
  • Jimmy Smith, Organ Grinder's Swing (feat. Kenny Burrell & Grady Tate)
  • Yusef Lateef, Six Miles Next Door
  • Dave Brubeck, Koto Song

Jazz After Dark, May 28, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Benny Carter, Beale Street Blues
  • Artie Shaw, Special Delivery Stomp
  • Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Blues In the Night
  • Lester Young, I Got Rhythm
  • Ray Anthony, The Man With A Horn
  • Art Pepper, Patricia
  • Johnny Hodges, Take the "A" Train
  • Stan Getz Quartet & Mose Allison, Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun
  • Ernie Wilkins And His Orchestra, All Of You
  • Benny Goodman & Quartet, I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
  • João Gilberto & Stan Getz, Corcovado
  • Ramsey Lewis, Come Sunday
  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Ella Fitzgerald, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Live At Cote D'Azur, France, 1966

Jazz After Dark, May 21, 2024

On this episode:

  • Louis Armstrong, Basin Street Blues
  • Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
  • Louis Armstrong, Mahogany Hall Stomp
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
  • Lee Morgan, All the Way
  • Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Chet Baker, My Funny Valentine
  • Pete Fountain, Milenberg Joys
  • Buddy Rich, Willowcrest
  • Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, Autumn In New York
  • Don Ellis, Image of Maria
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dorthaan's Walk

Jazz After Dark, May 14, 2024

Jazz masters on this episode:

  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Ory's Creole Trombone
  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Potato Head Blues
  • Artie Shaw, At Sundown
  • Sidney Bechet, Si tu vois ma mère
  • Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet, I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Billie Holiday & Lester Young, Fine and Mellow
  • Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, Line for Lyons
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, The Cat Walk
  • Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Drop Me Off in Harlem
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo
  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Oscar Peterson, Take the "A" Train
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Basie - Straight Ahead
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, That Warm Feeling

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
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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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