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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Replays Wednesday 10-11pm
Live Tuesday 8-9pm
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Jazz After Dark, May 6, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Take The "A" Train
  • Duke Ellington, Bojangles
  • Duke Ellington, Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  • Duke Ellington, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) [Live]
  • Duke Ellington, Sophisticated Lady (Live)
  • Duke Ellington with Rosemary Clooney, Blue Rose
  • Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra, Honey Hill
  • Paul Gonsalves, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Medley: Kinda Dukish, and Rockin' in Rhythm
  • Duke Ellington, C Jam Blues
  • Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Let's Do It (Live)
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Something to Live For (Live)
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) [Live at The Cote d'Azur]

Jazz After Dark, April 29, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Fats Waller, After You've Gone
  • Bunny Berigan, Black Bottom
  • Billie Holiday, God Bless the Child
  • Red Garland, I Can't Give You Anything but Love (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Milt Jackson, Blues at Twilight
  • Nat Adderley, I've Got a Crush on You (feat. Wes Montgomery & Sam Jones)
  • Barney Kessel, New Rhumba
  • Gia Maione, Louis Prima, Sam Butera & The Witnesses, When a Man Loves a Woman
  • Claude Bolling, Sentimentale
  • Butch Thompson, Home (When Shadows Fall - Red Maddock vocals)
  • Hank Jones, Mads Vinding & Billy Hart, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Jazz After Dark, April 22, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Clyde McCoy, Sugar Blues
  • New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Oh! Susannah, Dust Off That Old Piano
  • Coleman Hawkins & Buck Washington, On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Sidney Bechet, Ce môssieu qui parle (This Gentleman Who Speaks)
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet, Somebody Loves Me
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Tuxedo Junction
  • Art Farmer & Gigi Gryce, A Night At Tony's
  • Red Garland, If I Were a Bell (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Red Garland, The Very Thought of You (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Nat Adderley, Violets for Your Furs (feat. Wes Montgomery & Sam Jones)
  • Wynton Kelly, Skatin'
  • Dianne Reeves, Lullaby of Broadway
  • Stanley Turrentine, Salt Song

Jazz After Dark, April 15, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Benny Carter, All of Me
  • Erroll Garner Trio, I'll Remember April
  • Charlie Parker, K.C. Blues
  • Stan Getz, 'Round About Midnight
  • Ella Fitzgerald, From This Moment On
  • Oscar Peterson & Louis Armstrong, Moon Song
  • Blossom Dearie, Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
  • Buddy Greco, Fly Me to The Moon
  • Duke Ellington, All the Things You Are
  • Betty Roché, Day by Day
  • Yusef Lateef, Like It Is
  • Billy Butler, Satin Doll
  • Paul Desmond, Embarcadero

Jazz After Dark, April 8, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Mose Allison: The Seventh Son, Cabin In the Sky, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Dinner On the Ground
  • Miles Davis, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Don't Be That Way
  • Les McCann, The Truth
  • Eddie Harris, Exodus (Single Version)
  • Les McCann & Eddie Harris, You Got It in Your Soulness
  • Quincy Jones, Dead End
  • Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Compared to What

Jazz After Dark, April 1, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
  • Chick Webb, I Ain't Got Nobody
  • John Coltrane w Dinah Washington, Fast Movin' Mama
  • Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana
  • Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Johnny Hodges, Early Morning Rock
  • Clark Terry, C-Jam Blues
  • Cal Tjader,  Descarga Cubana
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Stardust
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Fine and Mellow
  • Johnny Hodges & Gerry Mulligan, Back Beat
  • Abbey Lincoln, Throw It Away
  • Clark Terry and Bobby Brookmeyer, Bye Bye Blackbird

Jazz After Dark, March 25, 2025

Tonight’s show is a retrospective on Louis Armstrong’s career, with selections from across the decades:

  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Potato Head Blues, 1927

From 1928 – 31: 

  • What Did I Do to Be So Black And Blue
  • The Peanut Vendor
  • Louis Armstrong Orchestra:
  • When You're Smiling
  • On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Red Sails in the Sunset
  • Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Farewell to Storyville
  • Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Atlanta Blues
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Can't We Be Friends
  • Louis Armstrong & Russell Garcia, Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way
  • Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Struttin' with Some Barbecue
  • Louis Armstrong & Sy Oliver, I Can't Give You Anything but Love
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place (Live on The Ed Sullivan Show, Dec. 17, 1961)
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Azalea

Louis Armstrong vocals, 1960s:

  • A Kiss to Build a Dream On
  • What a Wonderful World

Jazz After Dark, March 18, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Bix Beiderbecke, Copenhagen
  • Glenn Miller, Adios
  • Benny Goodman, Rose Room
  • Benny Goodman, Big John's Special
  • Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Fools Rush In
  • Doris Day and Les Brown, Sentimental Journey
  • Billie Holiday, What A Little Moonlight Can Do
  • Ella Fitzgerald, You're the Top
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Serenade in Blue
  • Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
  • Nat "King" Cole, Nature Boy
  • Kenny Burrell Octet, A String of Pearls
  • Dave Brubeck, Upstage Rumba
  • Clark Terry and Paul Gonsalves, Funky
  • Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill, Macarena
  • Clark Terry, Jam Session with Oscar Peterson, Misty
  • Dianne Reeves (with Clark Terry), I Hadn't Anyone ‘til You

Jazz After Dark, March 11, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Louis Armstrong, What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue
  • Gene Krupa and His Orchestra with Anita O’Day and Roy Eldridge, Let Me Off Uptown
  • Frank Sinatra, Stormy Weather
  • Art Pepper with Sonny Redd, These Foolish Things
  • Ahmad Jamal, Music! Music! Music!
  • James Clay, Pavanne
  • Stuff Smith, They Can't Take That Away from Me
  • Ella Fitzgerald, The Man I Love
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Over the Rainbow
  • Eubie Blake, Spanish Venus
  • Charlie Byrd, Saudade de Bahía
  • Gerry Mulligan, Walking Shoes
  • Cassandra Wilson, O Sole Mio Funk
  • New Orleans' Own the Dukes of Dixieland, Petite Fleur

Jazz After Dark, March 4, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Louis Armstrong Orchestra, Star Dust
  • The Bud Freeman Trio, Three Little Words
  • Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Long Gone (From the Bowlin' Green)
  • Artie Shaw And His Gramercy, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
  • Terry Pollard, Emaline
  • Nat King Cole, When I Fall in Love
  • Billy Taylor, Poinciana
  • Hank Mobley, If I Should Lose You
  • John Coltrane, Naima
  • Arnett Cobb, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
  • Oscar Peterson, C-Jam Blues
  • Frank Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra Ella Fitzgerald the Lady is a Tramp
  • Joe Henderson, Miles Ahead
  • Wolfgang Haffner, Children of Sanchez
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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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