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.

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 24, 2023Tue, 10/24/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorWe have the music of Cole Porter tonight, with performances by Julie London, Tal Farlow, Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, Sonny Stitt, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, June Katz, Bireli Lagrene, Steve Gadd, Harold Mabern Trio, and Terry Gibbs. |
Jazz After Dark, Oct. 17, 2023Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight’s show: Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker, Anita O'Day, Phineas Newborn Jr., Lou Donaldson, Ella Fitzgerald, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Nancy Wilson & The Great Jazz Trio, McCoy Tyner, Piano Connection, and Ahmad Jamal. |
Jazz After Dark, Oct. 10, 2023Tue, 10/10/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight’s show: Peggy Lee, Georgie Auld & His Orchestra with Sarah Vaughan on vocals, Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, Earl Bostic, Oscar Peterson, Yusef Lateef, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Pepper, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Milt Jackson, Milt Jackson & The Ray Brown Big Band, Ledisi, and Chet Baker with Paul Desmond. |
Jazz After Dark, Oct. 3, 2023Tue, 10/03/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight’s show: Sam Butera, then piano from Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk with Gerry Mulligan, Erroll Garner, and Sonny Clark. Vocals by Anita O'Day, then Cornell Dupree, and Abdullah Ibrahim with Buddy Tate. |
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 26, 2023Tue, 09/26/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTwo featured artists on Jazz After Dark tonight: Pepper Adams and Ben Webster. We’ll hear Adams with Toots Thielemans, as well as an extended blues jazz set. Then Ben Webster with Ella Fitzgerald, and with Oscar Peterson, followed by some of his solo and live recordings. |
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 19, 2023Tue, 09/19/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight’s show: Lester Young live At Carnegie Hall, 1946, then Duke Ellington with Lee Gaines on vocals, Dave Brubeck, Artie Shaw, Chet Baker Quartet, Tommy Flanagan Trio, Ella Fitzgerald, Teddy Wilson with Eiji Kitamura, Mel Tormé with Gerry Mulligan & George Shearing, and Erroll Garner. |
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 12, 2023Tue, 09/12/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorFirst we’ll hear some early Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Jelly Roll Morton, Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, and Charlie Parker. Then we have a set from our featured artist, Chico Hamilton, followed by Duke Ellington, Ella again, Lee Morgan, Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete, Boogaloo Joe Jones, and Stan Getz. |
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 5, 2023Tue, 09/05/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorWe have New Orleans jazz, bossa nova, and more tonight: Billie Holiday, Bunny Berigan (Danny Richards vocals), Georgie Auld & His Orchestra, New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Benny Carter, Louis Armstrong, The 6 & 7/8ths String Band, Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Sweet Emma & Her Dixieland Boys, Johnny Hodges, João Gilberto & Milton Banana, Luiz Bonfá, Carlos Lyra & Quarteto de Oscar Castro Neves, Nara Leão, Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, and the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. |
Jazz After Dark, Aug. 29, 2023Tue, 08/29/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorSix longer pieces tonight: Artie Shaw, Tommy Flanagan, Art Pepper, Woody Shaw & Louis Hayes, Chet Baker with Jim Hall and Hubert Laws, and Lee Konitz and the Brazilian Band. |
Jazz After Dark, Aug. 22, 2023Tue, 08/22/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorMellow sax and West Coast cool tonight: Sonny Clark, Duke Ellington with Johnny Hodges, Oliver Nelson (Jimmy Forrest sax), Roland Kirk, Benny Carter, Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, and Stanley Turrentine. |
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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.
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