Jazz After Dark Archives

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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 27, 2024

1950s jazz tonight:

  • Pearl Bailey, They Didn't Believe Me
  • Earl Bostic, Bostic's Boogie Blues
  • Don Elliott and the Cool Jazz Stars, Muskrat Ramble
  • Terry Pollard, Where or When (2015 - Remaster)
  • Ethel Ennis, Blue Prelude
  • Art Farmer & Gigi Gryce, Social Call
  • Art Pepper/Sonny Redd, Deep Purple
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines, 'S Wonderful
  • Cal Tjader, Summertime1Clarinet
  • Ruby Braff, But Not For Me
  • Helen Humes, When I Grow Too Old To Dream
  • Ella Fitzgerald, All of Me
  • Mose Allison, Creek Bank
  • Wynton Kelly, Softly As In a Morning Sunrise

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 20, 2024

We have a Duke Ellington retrospective tonight on Jazz After Dark with selections from 1928 to 1964, accompanied by Cootie Williams, Johnny Hodges, Barney Bigard and his Jazzopators, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, and more. The song list:

  • Stevedore Stomp
  • Diga Diga Doo
  • Watchin'
  • Stormy Weather
  • A Sailboat In The Moonlight
  • Sponge Cake And Spinach
  • Harmony in Harlem
  • Tulip or Turnip (Live at Newport)
  • Night and Day
  • Drop Me Off In Harlem
  • The Swingers Get the Blues, Too
  • In A Sentimental Mood
  • One O'Clock Jump
  • Tuxedo Junction
  • Caravan
  • Isfahan

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 13, 2024

On tonight's show:

  • Glenn Miller, Johnson Rag
  • Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra, Georgia On My Mind
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, Solitude (78 RPM Version)
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
  • Bobby Darin, Mack The Knife
  • Nat King Cole, Let There Be Love
  • Erroll Garner, Misty
  • Miles Davis, Blue In Green
  • Ramsey Lewis, The Tennessee Waltz (Live)
  • Ramsey Lewis, I'll Wait For You
  • Budd Johnson, Bill Pemberton, Oliver Jackson & Earl "Fatha" Hines, Summertime
  • Astrud Gilberto, Agua De Beber (feat. Antônio Carlos Jobim)
  • Kenny Burrell, The Preacher
  • Paul Desmond, Modern Jazz Quartet, You Go to My Head
  • Ray Charles, Oh Bess, Where's My Bess

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 6, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • King Cole Trio, Baby, Baby, All the Time
  • Django Reinhardt, Manoir de mes Rêves
  • Django Reinhardt, Brazil
  • Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves, Daylight Express
  • Sonny Clark, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, Fajista (Master Take)
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, Blues in B Flat
  • Vince Guaraldi, Blues for Peanuts
  • Vince Guaraldi, Jitterbug Waltz
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Sweet and Slow
  • Dianne Reeves, Who's Minding the Store?
  • Dianne Reeves, When I Fall In Love (Instrumental)
  • Diana Krall, 'Deed I Do

Jazz After Dark, July 30, 2024

On tonight's show:

  • Bunny Berigan (Kay Little vocals), Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
  • Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Grandpa's Spells
  • King Cole Trio, I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
  • Don Ewell  with Sidney Bechet, Careless Love
  • Earl Bostic, What, No Pearls
  • Duke Ellington (Ray Nance vocals), Tulip or Turnip
  • Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Perdido
  • Sarah Vaughan, They Can't Take That Away From Me
  • Gerry Mulligan, Good Bait
  • Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra, Manteca
  • Dinah Washington, Time After Time
  • Henry Mancini, The Pink Panther Theme
  • Boots Randolph, Crazy Rhythm
  • Eddie Jefferson, Sister Sadie
  • Claude Bolling, Begin The Beguine
  • Tony Bennett, Steppin' Out With My Baby
  • Ennio Morricone, The Crave
  • The Spencer Wyatt Big Band, Blue Note Boogie

Jazz After Dark, July 23, 2024

Summertime sounds tonight:

  • Luiz Bonfá, Manha de Carnaval
  • Sexteto de Sergio Mendes, Samba de uma nota só
  • Vince Guaraldi, On Green Dolphin Street
  • Clare Fischer, So Danco Samba
  • Chet Baker, Sausalito
  • Gabor Szabo, Corcovado
  • Gabor Szabo, Concerto de Aranjuez
  • Yusef Lateef, Sun Dog
  • Antônio Carlos Jobim, Joe Farrell, and Hubert Laws, Stone Flower
  • The Charlie Byrd Trio, Wave (Live)
  • The Charlie Byrd Trio, Trouble In Mind (Live)
  • Ana Caram, Só Tinha de Ser Com Você
  • Francisco Aguabella, Tumbaito
  • Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, Summertime

Jazz After Dark, July 16, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Summertime
  • Benny Goodman, Jersey Bounce
  • Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge, Knock Me A Kiss
  • Lena Horne, The Lady Is A Tramp
  • Edmond Hall and the Hot Jazz Stars, Indiana
  • Jimmy McPartland's Hot Jazz Stars, Muskrat Ramble
  • Terry Pollard and Her Septet, Mamblues
  • Terry Pollard and Her Septet, Cat Meets Chick
  • Tony Bennett, Firefly
  • Ben Webster & Gerry Mulligan, Sunday
  • Bobby Darin, Beyond The Sea
  • Cal Tjader, Soul Burst (Guajera)
  • Duke Ellington, Take The "A" Train (Vocal)
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, It's Only A Paper Moon
  • Ray Charles, It Ain't Necessarily So (instrumental)

Jazz After Dark, July 2, 2024

On tonight's show:

  • Billie Holiday, You're My Thrill
  • Stan Getz & J. J. Johnson with the Oscar Peterson Trio, My Funny Valentine
  • Sidney Bechet, Struttin' With Some Barbecue
  • Sidney Bechet, American Rhythm
  • Duke Ellington, Solitude
  • John Coltrane, After The Rain
  • Boots Randolph, Body and Soul
  • Billy Taylor, Capricious
  • Eddie Jefferson, A Crazy Romance (The Preacher)
  • Ella Fitzgerald & The Jimmy Jones Trio, It's Only a Paper Moon
  • Paul Gonsalves & Enrique Villegas, 05 - a. gone with the wind - b. tenderly - c. ramona
  • Dorothy Donegan, Makin' Whoopee I
  • Ramsey Lewis, Baby What You Want Me To Do
  • Helen Merrill, Anyplace I hang my hat is home

Jazz After Dark, June 25, 2024

On tonight’s episode:

  • Earl Bostic, C Jam Blues
  • Glenn Miller, Td's Boogie Woogie
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb and His Orchestra, You Showed Me the Way
  • Artie Shaw, That Old Feeeling
  • Benny Goodman, Runnin' Wild
  • Erroll Garner, On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Helen Forrest/Harry James, Skylark
  • Les Brown, Leap Frog
  • Nat King Cole, (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
  • Terry Pollard and Her Septet, The Man I Love
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, The Mooche
  • Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, O Pato
  • Count Basie & Joe Williams, Alright, Okay, You Win
  • Toots Thielemans, Indian Nuts
  • Shirley Horn, Forget Me
  • Diana Krall and Stanley Turrentine, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
  • Jim Cox (The Majestic soundtrack), Boogie Woogie Stomp
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