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, Nov. 5, 2024

Programming note: the Tuesday 8 p.m. broadcast is pre-empted by election coverage. This program will play at the Friday 11 p.m. rebroadcast time.

Upbeat jazz favorites tonight: 

  • Bunny Berigan (Kay Little vocals), Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
  • Nat King Cole, Route 66
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Vince Guaraldi, Skating
  • Jacy Parker, Here Comes Trouble Again
  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Oscar Peterson, Take the "A" Train
  • Antônio Carlos Jobim, Takatanga
  • Gerry Mulligan, One to Ten in Ohio
  • Don Ellis, Sidonie
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The Entertainer (Done in the style of The Blues)
  • Hubert Laws, Passacaglia, guitar solo
  • Herb Alpert & Hugh Masekela, Kalahari Nights
  • Paco De Lucía, John McLaughlin & Al Di Meola, Manha de Carnaval

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 29, 2024

On tonight's show:

  • Teddy Wilson, Stompin' at the Savoy
  • Art Tatum, Where or When
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Dream a Little Dream of Me
  • Artie Shaw, Monsoon
  • Artie Shaw, Cream Puff
  • Peggy Lee, Love Me or Leave Me
  • Buddy DeFranco, Funky's Oncle
  • Johnny Hodges, Jeep Bounces Back
  • Don Ellis, Quiet Longing
  • Duke Ellington (Betty Roché vocals), I Love My Lovin' Lover
  • Boots Randolph, Billy's Bounce
  • Chet Baker, Crazy She Calls Me
  • Chet Baker with Paul Desmond, You Can't Go Home Again
  • Eiji Kitamura, I Wanna Go Home

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 22, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Count Basie, Pennies from Heaven
  • Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Ad Lib Blues
  • Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Almost Like Being in Love
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio, Fascinating Rhythm
  • Blossom Dearie, Just in Time
  • Yusef Lateef, The Plum Blossom
  • Stan Getz, Melancolico
  • Teddy Edwards, Heart and Soul
  • Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train
  • Dave Brubeck, Tokyo Traffic
  • Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer, Trav'lin' Light
  • Zoot Sims, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
  • Zoot Sims, I've Got a Crush on You
  • Zoot Sims, Embraceable You

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 15, 2024

Tonight's show:

  • Count Basie, Jumpin' At The Woodside
  • Jelly Roll Morton, Don't You Leave Me Here
  • Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge, Skylark
  • Cab Calloway, 06 - Special Delivery
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio, Never Never Land
  • Ruby Braff, Barbary Coast
  • Arnett Cobb with Ray Bryant, Cocktails for Two and Blues in the Closet
  • Arnett Cobb with Tommy Flanagan, Blue Lou
  • Arnett Cobb with Bobby Timmons, Down by the Riverside
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Tommy Flanagan, Little White Lies (Live)
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and His Orchestra, The Count Basie Orchestra & Tommy Flanagan, Indian Summer (Live)
  • Jaki Byard with Tommy Flanagan, Satin Doll
  • Claude Bolling Big Band, Duke's Beat

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 8, 2024

Jazz classics tonight.

  • Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump
  • Ella Fitzgerald, A-Tisket A-Tasket
  • Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, In the Mood
  • Sidney Bechet, Blue Horizon
  • Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen, When The Saints Go Marching In
  • Earl Bostic, Flamingo
  • Lester Young, Stardust
  • Stan Kenton, The Creep
  • Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, Nuages
  • Billie Holiday, Lady Sings The Blues
  • Gerry Mulligan, Bags' Groove
  • Blossom Dearie, 'Deed I Do
  • Dave Brubeck, Blue Rondo a La Turk
  • Miles Davis, Summertime
  • Stan Getz, Manhã de Carnaval
  • Paul Desmond, Take Te

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 1, 2024

Tonight’s playlist was suggested by a listener, and it tells a story.

  • Peggy Lee, Please Send Me Someone To Love
  • Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & His Orchestra, Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
  • Etta James, The Man I Love
  • Mel Tormé, All I Need Is A Girl
  • Louis Armstrong, Love Walked In
  • Helen Forrest, Make Love To Me
  • Lena Horne, Come on Strong
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Bésame Mucho
  • Billie Holiday, Stars Fell on Alabama
  • Peggy Lee, Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?
  • Frank Sinatra, Day By Day
  • Billie Holiday, Comes Love
  • Frank Sinatra, Hey! Jealous Lover
  • Louis Jordan, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
  • Helen Humes, He Don't Love Me Anymore
  • Esther Phillips, I Wish You Love

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 24, 2024

Farewell to summer on tonight’s show:

  • Billie Holiday, I Cover The Waterfront
  • Cal Tjader, Summertime (Vince Guaraldi piano solo)
  • Paul Gonsalves, Yesterdays
  • Stan Getz, Balanço No Samba
  • Teddy Edwards, Smokin'
  • Dave Brubeck & Tony Bennett, That Old Black Magic
  • Dave Brubeck, Lonesome
  • Buddy Rich, Lament For Lester
  • Count Basie, Blues For Joe Turner
  • James Moody, Moody's Mood
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Teach Me Tonight (Live)
  • Ron Carter, Take Ten
  • Gerald Wiggins, Summertime

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 17, 2024

Jazz from the 1930s and '40s tonight. We’ll hear:

  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, The Last Time
  • Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra, I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
  • Clyde McCoy, Sugar Blues
  • Bob Crosby and His Orchestra, The Big Noise from Winnetka
  • Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Lulu's Back In Town
  • Jimmie Lunceford, For Dancers Only
  • Duke Ellington, New East ST. Louis Toodle-Oo
  • Sidney Bechet with Noble Sissle, Viper Mad
  • Fats Waller, Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
  • Benny Carter, Beale Street Blues
  • Benny Goodman, One O'Clock Jump
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Stairway To The Stars
  • Glenn Miller, Rhapsody in Blue
  • Erskine Hawkins, After Hours (Digitally Remastered)
  • Charlie Christian, Six Appeal (My Daddy Rocks Me)
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, Am I Blue?
  • Bunny Berigan, Skylark
  • Thelonious Monk, 'Round Midnight
  • Les Brown, Leap Frog

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 10, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Duke Ellington, It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Count Basie (Jimmy Rushing vocals), You Can Depend On Me
  • Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge, Ball Of Fire
  • Erskine Hawkins, Tippin' In
  • Gia Maione, Louis Prima, Sam Butera & The Witnesses, When a Man Loves a Woman
  • Miles Davis Quartet, When I Fall In Love
  • Gigi Gryce Octet, Purple Shades
  • Art Pepper, You're Driving Me Crazy
  • Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Lullaby Of The Leaves
  • Jimmy Witherspoon, Trouble In Mind
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Them There Eyes (Live Chicago Opera House)
  • Kenny Burrell, Wavy Gravy
  • Pete Fountain, Bye Bye, Bill Bailey
  • Horace Silver, Sighin' and Cryin'
  • The Taylor Eigsti Trio, They Can't Take That Away From Me

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 3, 2024

New Orleans jazz and more tonight:

  • Louis Armstrong, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
  • Pete Johnson And Albert Ammons, Boogie Woogie Man
  • Will Bradley, Basin Street Boogie
  • Tommy Dorsey, Swing Low, Swing Chariot
  • Ella Fitzgerald with Sy Oliver, Basin Street Blues
  • Artie Shaw, Imagination
  • Woody Herman Sextet, Princess M
  • Jim Robinson's New Orleans Band, Ice Cream
  • Pete Fountain, Lazy River
  • Louis Armstrong, Bourbon Street Parade
  • Billie & DeDe Pierce, Algiers Hoodoo Blues
  • Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Rip 'Em Up, Joe, and We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City
  • New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Just a Little While to Stay Here
  • Piano Connection, Hit That Nail
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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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