Jazz After Dark

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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, 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'

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
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Comments

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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