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Jazz After Dark, March 26, 2024

Tonight we’ll hear:

  • Billie Holiday, Good Morning Heartache
  • Benny Goodman, Oh! Baby
  • Ella Fitzgerald, My Funny Valentine (Live)
  • Django Reinhardt, Nuages
  • Chet Baker, How Long Has This Been Going On
  • Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana (Live)
  • Cannonball Adderley, Straight No Chaser
  • Yusef Lateef, Kongsberg
  • Ramsey Lewis Trio, You Don't Know Me
  • Gerry Mulligan, Walk On The Water
  • Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef, Trouble In Mind (Live)
  • Charlie Byrd and the Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza

Jazz After Dark, March 19, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Nat King Cole Trio, Honeysuckle Rose
  • Thelonious Monk, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Gerry Mulligan, The Preacher
  • Miles Davis,  Will O' the Wisp
  • Sergio Mendes, On Green Dolphin Street
  • Herbie Mann & The Bill Evans Trio, Nirvana
  • Ed Thigpen, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Rosa & Tommy Flanagan, Old Devil Moon
  • Don Ellis, Quiet Longing
  • Milcho Leviev & Multiple Personalities, Invincible
  • Ramsey Lewis, Do What You Wanna
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Echoes of Primitive Ohio and Chili Dogs
  • Count Basie, (We Ain't Got) No Special Thing
  • The Crusaders, Stomp and Buck Dance

Jazz After Dark, March 12, 2024

It’s mostly blues, funk, and soul jazz tonight.

  • Dave Brubeck Quintet, Alan Dawson’s drum solo from Take Five
  • Art Tatum, Blues In C
  • Lou Donaldson, Grits And Gravy
  • Benny Carter, Cotton Tail
  • Horace Silver, The Skunky Funky Blues
  • Horace Silver Quintet, The Preacher
  • James Rivers, Smokey the Funky Soprano
  • Chico O'Farrill, Guaguasi
  • Benny Golson Funky Quintet, Blues March
  • Houston Person, Please Send Me Someone to Love

Jazz After Dark, March 5, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Erroll Garner, All of Me
  • Artie Shaw, Too Marvelous for Words
  • Earl Bostic, Always
  • Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges, Sentimental Lady
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Paul Gonsalves & Enrique Villegas - i can't get started
  • Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan, Unfinished Woman
  • Boogaloo Joe Jones, Jamaica Farewell
  • Dianne Reeves, I Concentrate On You
  • Jim Hall, Two's Blues
  • Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza
  • David Benoit, Charlie Brown Theme
  • Biréli Lagrène, Come Fly with Me

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 27, 2024

We have jazz classics tonight:

  • Louis Armstrong, West End Blues
  • Benny Goodman, Sing Sing Sing
  • Billie Holiday, I Wished On the Moon
  • Coleman Hawkins & Stanley Black, Honeysuckle Rose
  • Count Basie (Jimmy Rushing vocals), Exactly Like You
  • Fats Waller, Georgia On My Mind
  • Django Reinhardt, Swing Guitar
  • Ella Fitzgerald and the Ray Charles Singers, Smooth Sailing
  • Sonny Rollins, St. Thomas
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio, Fenwyck's Farfel
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio, Cast Your Fate to the Wind
  • Dave Brubeck, Kathy's Waltz
  • Thelonious Monk, 01 - Round Midnight (Take 2)
  • Duke Ellington, C Jam Blues
  • Erroll Garner, Misty

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 20, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Will Bradley Trio (Don Raye vocals), Down The Road A Piece
  • Billie Holiday, Baby, I Don't Cry Over You
  • Miles Davis, Baby Won't You Please Come Home
  • Johnny Hodges, Blues-A-Plenty
  • Mary Lou Williams, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Mary Lou Williams, Olinga
  • Sarah Vaughan, Gloomy Sunday
  • Sarah Vaughan, Have You Met Miss Jones?
  • Sarah Vaughan live concert, Rainy Days and Monday
  • Tommy Flanagan, Beyond The Bluebird
  • Gerry Mulligan with Dave Brubeck, These Foolish Things
  • Junior Mance, Stormy Weather

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 13, 2024

Jazz for Valentine’s Day:

  • Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
  • Jimmy Yancey, State Street Special
  • Nat King Cole, L-O-V-E
  • Jimmy Hamilton, I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  • Hal McKusick, What's New
  • Pérez Prado & His Orchestra, Besame Mucho
  • Bobby Timmons, Chet Baker and His Crew, Lucious Lu
  • The Ella Fitzgerald Quarter, My Funny Valentine
  • Lee Morgan, P.S. I Love You
  • Pete Fountain, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
  • Pete Fountain, Poor Butterfly
  • Stan Getz, Love Is Here to Stay
  • Toots Thielemans, Please send me someone to love
  • Etta Jones, You Better Go Now
  • Joe Pass, Blues for Alican

Jazz After Dark, Feb. 6, 2024

Jazz classics tonight:

  • Benny Goodman, Stardust
  • Fats Waller, The Joint Is Jumpin'
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Stairway To The Stars
  • Billie Holiday ,  God Bless the Child
  • Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker, Shaw 'Nuff
  • Charlie Parker, Lover Man
  • Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump
  • Don Shirley, Water Boy
  • Dave Brubeck Trio, Body and Soul
  • Duke Ellington, Jimmy Blanton, Pitter Panther Patter
  • Oliver Nelson, Stolen Moments
  • Cannonball Adderley, Sabbath Prayer
  • Ella Fitzgerald, It's All Right With Me
  • Horace Silver, Song for My Father

Jazz After Dark, Jan. 30, 2024

Classics tonight on Jazz After Dark:

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, I'm Alabama Bound

Teddy Wilson, How High the Moon

Art Tatum, Makin' Whoopee

Winifred Atwell, Boogie in the Groove

Winifred Atwell, The Charleston

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?

Les McCann, The Truth

Les McCann Ltd. & Lou Rawls, (They Call It) Stormy Monday

Ray Charles, Birth of the Blues

Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete, Star Song

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