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, Oct. 14, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Lester Young, Lester Leaps In
  • Count Basie & The Kansas City Seven, Dickie's Dream
  • Billie Holiday, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Betty Roché, Blue Moon
  • Lester Young, Up 'N' Adam
  • Sarah Vaughan with Count Basie and his Orchestra, Perdido
  • Gerry Mulligan, Turnstile
  • Vince Guaraldi, Corcovado
  • John Lewis & Bill Perkins with Jim Hall, Skylark
  • Ike Quebec, Buzzard Lope
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Blues in the Night (1961 Version)
  • Stanley Turrentine, I Wish I Knew
  • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Boogie Bumper

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 7, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Arnett Cobb with Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones, Art Taylor & Buck Clark, Walkin'
  • Al Hirt, Tin Roof Blues
  • Lou Donaldson, Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  • Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, The Preacher
  • Hank Mobley, Soul Station
  • Gerry Mulligan, Venus de Milo
  • Cal Tjader, Willie Bobo, Mongo Santamaria & The Eddie Cano Big Band, Key Largo
  • Shirley Scott, 411 West
  • Herbie Hancock, Watermelon Man
  • Howard Roberts, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
  • Boogaloo Joe Jones, The Beat Goes On

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 30, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Griff Williams and His Orchestra, Saturday Night In Central Park
  • Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Moten Swing
  • Duke Ellington, Satin Doll
  • Glenn Miller Sound, In the Mood
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Taxi War Dance
  • Nat King Cole, Baby, Baby All the Time
  • Peggy Lee, Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Tuxedo Junction
  • Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra, Annie's Dance
  • Frank Sinatra, Come dance with me
  • Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, Exactly Like You
  • Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra, Stardust
  • Sergio Mendes, Oba-la-la
  • Billy Taylor, Capricious
  • Zoot Sims, Someone to Watch Over Me
  • Dorothy Donegan, Time After Time
  • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Maddest Kind of Love

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 23, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • George Gershwin, Havanola
  • Artie Shaw, I've Got a Crush on You
  • Buddy Greco, How Long Has This Been Going On
  • Frank Morgan with Gigi Gryce, Embraceable You
  • Frank Sinatra, I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
  • Hadda Brooks, Rhapsody in Blue
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, But Not for Me
  • Aretha Franklin, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Stuff Smith, Somebody Loves Me
  • Ella Fitzgerald, That Certain Feeling
  • Pete Fountain, I Got Rhythm
  • Pearl Bailey, Summertime
  • Etta Jones, They Can't Take That Away from Me
  • Stanley Turrentine, Someone to Watch Over Me

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 16, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime
  • Benny Goodman, Stompin' At The Savoy
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Oh, Lady Be Good
  • Earl Hines, Lightly and Politely
  • Joe Sullivan, I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • Tal Farlow, Cherokee
  • Claude Williamson Trio, Round Midnight
  • Earl Bostic, East of the Sun
  • Paul Desmond, Body and Soul
  • Toots Thielemans, Flirt
  • Hank Mobley, Soft Impressions
  • McCoy Tyner, Days of Wine and Roses
  • Al Jarreau, So Long Girl
  • Lew Tabackin, Yesterdays
  • Houston Person, Put It Right There

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 9, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Glenn Miller, Little Brown Jug
  • Duke Ellington, Take The A Train
  • Lester Young & His Band, These Foolish Things
  • Art Tatum, Willow Weep For Me
  • Count Basie, Cherokee
  • Charlie Shavers and Maxine Sullivan, Dark Eyes
  • Claude Williamson Trio, Stompin' at the Savoy
  • Tony Scott, My Funny Valentine
  • Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Let's Fall in Love
  • Art Pepper, You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Harry Carney & The Duke's Men, Jeepers Creepers
  • McCoy Tyner, Satin Doll
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, Tippin' In
  • Zoot Sims, Somebody Loves Me

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 2, 2025

West Coast cool jazz on tonight’s show:

  • Buddy Tate, Vine Street Breakdown
  • Shelly Manne & His Men, Summer Night
  • Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me
  • Cy Touff, It's Sand'Man
  • Miles Davis, Just Squeeze Me
  • Shorty Rogers, Infinity promenade
  • Gerry Mulligan, May-Reh
  • Stan Getz, I Only Have Eyes for You
  • Dave Brubeck Trio, Indiana
  • Dave Brubeck, Zen is When
  • Chet Baker, Star Eyes
  • Cal Tjader, Morning
  • Tito Puente, Take Five

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 26, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, The Man I Love
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Nona
  • Buck Clayton, Buck's Bon Voyage
  • Red Garland, Stompin' At the Savoy (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Ahmad Jamal, Old Devil Moon
  • Ahmad Jamal, No Greater Love (Live)
  • Yusef Lateef, Oboe Blues
  • Ahmad Jamal, Rhumba No 2
  • Gil Evans, Chant of the Weed
  • Helen Merrill with Gil Evans, People will say we're in love
  • The Mills Brothers, Cab Driver
  • Chet Baker, Line for Lyons (Live)
  • Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef, I Remember Italy (Live)

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 19, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Louis Armstrong, Sittin' In The Sun
  • Nat "King" Cole, Route 66
  • Julie London, Goody Goody
  • Mundell Lowe, Crazy Rhythm
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Horace Parlan, There Is No Greater Love
  • Etta Jones, And the Angels Sing
  • Jacy Parker, But Beautiful
  • Bud Shank, A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
  • Nina Simone, Mood Indigo
  • The Jazz At the Philharmonic All-Stars, I Surrender Dear (feat. Roy Eldridge)
  • Abdullah Ibrahim, Manenberg (Revisited)
  • The Charlie Byrd Trio, Jive at Five (Live)

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 12, 2025

Six longer sets tonight:

  • Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Charlie Shavers, and more, Funky Blues
  • Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan, 'Round Midnight (feat. Wilbur Ware & Shadow Wilson)
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Ben's Blues
  • Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges, Harry Edison trumpet, Basin Street Blues
  • Miles Davis, Solea
  • Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz, The Two Lonely People
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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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