On tonight’s show:
- Bing Crosby, Sweet Georgia Brown, 1932
- Chu Berry, Body and Soul, 1938
- The Spencer Trio, Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? 1938
- Winifred Atwell, Choo Choo Samba, 1950s
- Claude Williamson Trio, Stella by Starlight, 1956
- Illinois Jacquet, Have You Met Miss Jones? 1957
- Doris Day, There Will Never Be Another You, 1957
- Clark Terry, Take the A Train, 1957
- Duke Ellington, Night and Day, 1958
- Howard Roberts, When the Sun Comes Out, 1959
- Ella Fitzgerald, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Live at the Crescendo), 1961
- Oscar Peterson Trio, Moten Swing, 1963
- Paul Desmond, The Theme from Black Orpheus, 1963
- Zoot Sims, The Girl from Ipanema, 1977
- The Rosenberg Trio, Django, 1995
- The Spencer Wyatt Big Band, Blues in The Bucket, 2001
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On tonight's show:
- Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra, Pompton Turnpike
- Artie Shaw And His New Music, Free Wheeling
- Erskine Hawkins, Tippin' In
- Don Byas, I Got Rhythm
- Louis Armstrong, When You're Smiling
- Gerry Mulligan, Sextet
- Etta Jones, Bye Bye Blackbird
- Herb Alpert, A Taste of Honey
- Eubie Blake, Tricky Fingers
- Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill, The Peanut Vendor
- Ella Fitzgerald & The Tommy Flanagan Trio, Night and Day
- Herb Alpert & Hugh Masekela, Besame Mucho
- Sonny Rollins, And Then My Love I Found You
- Art Pepper & George Cables, Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
- Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola & John McLaughlin, Manhã de Carnaval
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Longer sets, mellow jazz tonight:
- Gabor Szabo, Autumn Leaves / Speak to Me of Love
- Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, Body and Soul
- Johnny Griffin, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
- Stan Getz, Kenny Barron, East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
- Pharoah Sanders, I Want to Talk About You
- WDR Big Band Köln & Milt Jackson, Bag's Groove
- Al Jarreau, We Got By (Live)
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On tonight's show:
- Gene Krupa with Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge
- Billie Holiday
- Art Pepper
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Chet Baker
- Duke Ellington
- Count Basie and His Orchestra
- Stanley Turrentine
- Dianne Reeves
- Claude Bolling with Alexandre Lagoya
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On tonight's show:
- King Cole Trio, Swingin' The Blues
- Jimmy Scott & Lionel Hampton, Everybody's Somebody's Fool
- Gerald Wiggins, Coffee Time
- Russ Freeman, Art Pepper Quartet, Everything Happens to Me
- Phineas Newborn Jr. and All Stars, Take It Slow, Joe
- Kenny Dorham Quintet, But Beautiful
- Anita O'Day, That Old Feeling
- Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, In a Mellotone
- Ella Fitzgerald, I'll Never Fall In Love Again
- Stanley Turrentine, I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
- Pharoah Sanders, The Nearness of You
- Milt Jackson and the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Bags' Groove
- Dianne Reeves, What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Panama
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On our 700th episode of Jazz After Dark tonight:
- Billie Holiday, Crazy He Calls Me
- Nat King Cole, Orange-Colored Sky
- Louis Prima, Body And Soul
- Louis Armstrong, When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)
- Mose Allison, Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Tony Bennett, (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco
- Earl Hines, Black Coffee
- Billy Taylor Trio, On The Street Where You Live
- Ben Webster, Misty
- Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place (Aka C - Jam Blues)
- The Mills Brothers, Cab Driver
- Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, Koto Song
- Stanley Turrentine, I Could Never Repay Your Love
- Antônio Carlos Jobim, Takatanga
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On tonight’s show:
- Johnny Dodds, 29th And Dearborn
- Artie Shaw, When the Quail Come Back to Saint Quentin
- Georgie Auld & His Orchestra, A Hundred Years from Today (vocals Sarah Vaughan)
- Louis Armstrong, Someday You'll Be Sorry
- Lucky Thompson, Mood Indigo
- Billie Holiday & Tony Scott and His Orchestra, Trav'lin Light
- Billy Bauer, You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- Eriko Ishihara, You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves, Blues for Daddy-O's Jazz Patio Blues
- Red Garland, One O'Clock Jump
- Art Pepper, 'Round Midnight
- Ella Fitzgerald, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Ahmad Jamal, Excerpt from the Blues
- Yusef Lateef, Love Theme from the Robe
- Wynton Kelly, Comin' In the Back Door
- Chico Hamilton, Fancy
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For New Year's Eve, tonight's show includes:
- Artie Shaw & His Orchestra, Begin the Beguine
- Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
- Jerry Gray, The Anvil Chorus
- Ella Fitzgerald, Night and Day
- Arnett Cobb, Ray Bryant, Party Time
- Duke Ellington, Satin Doll
- Erroll Garner, How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me
- Mel Tormé, Let's Face the Music and Dance
- Peggy Lee, Fever
- Machito with Cannonball Adderley, Congo Mulence
- Helen Humes, Bill Bailey
- Louis Prima & Keely Smith, All Night Long
- Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, Waiting on The Champagne
- Winifred Atwell, Slaughter On 10th Ave
- Sidney Bechet, I Get a Kick Out of You
- Duke Ellington, Rhapsody in Blue
- Pete Fountain, Marching 'Round the Mountain
- Guy Lombardo, Auld Lang Syne
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Seasonal and holiday jazz and more tonight:
- Ella Fitzgerald, Holiday In Harlem (feat. Chick Webb and His Orchestra)
- Louis Armstrong, Cool Yule (feat. The Commanders)
- Ella Fitzgerald, Good Morning Blues
- Ramsey Lewis Trio, Merry Christmas Baby
- Ramsey Lewis Trio, Christmas Blues
- Sonny Rollins, God Bless The Child (Jim Hall guitar)
- Jimmy Smith, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Vince Guaraldi Trio, Greensleeves
- Don Ellis, 8 Nicole
- Art Pepper, Winter Moon
- Toshiko Akiyoshi, Winter Wonderland
- Birelli Lagrene, Acoustic Moments
- Jimmy Smith, Silent Night jazzed
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On tonight’s show:
- Édith Piaf, La vie en rose (Live Paris 3 Avril 1954)
- Ella Fitzgerald, Cry Me a River (Live at Zardi's 1956)
- Duke Ellington, Tea for Two
- Charlie Shavers & Coleman Hawkins, Jumpin' with Symphony Sid
- Lena Horne, Let Me Love You and It's All Right with Me (Live at The Waldorf Astoria)
- Ahmad Jamal, I'll Take Romance and My Funny Valentine
- Carmen McRae, Take Five (Live at Sugar Hill with Dave Brubeck)
- George Benson, Take Five (Live at Carnegie Hall)
- Toots Thielemans with Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson, The Mooche
- Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Bli Blip (with Dianne Reeves)
- Etta Jones & Houston Person, Deed I Do
- Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, C Jam Blues
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