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Jazz After Dark, July 22, 2025

Coming up tonight, it’s Duke Ellington and some of the great musicians who worked with him. The songs:

  • Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra, Cotton Club Stomp
  • Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra, I Was Made to Love You
  • Duke Ellington, Come Sunday (with Mahalia Jackson)
  • Billy Strayhorn, Take the "A" Train
  • Johnny Hodges, Art Pepper Quintett / What's New
  • Johnny Hodges & Duke Ellington, Moon Glow
  • Johnny Hodges with Ray Nance vocals, Just Squeeze Me
  • Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
  • Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges, Wabash Blues
  • Duke Ellington, Take the "A" Train
  • Paul Gonsalves, I'm Beginning to See the Light
  • Harry Carney & The Duke's Men, Five O’clock Drag
  • Harry Carney, Paul Gonsalves, Harold Ashby & The Duke's Men, Backstairs
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Duke's Place

Jazz After Dark, July 15, 2025

Jazz with French style tonight:

  • Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France, Echoes of France (La Marseillaise)
  • Django Reinhardt, How High The Moon
  • Charlie Parker, April In Paris
  • Sidney Bechet, Petite Fleur
  • Jazzmen Detroit (Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Pepper Adams, Kenny Burrell & Kenny Clarke), Afternoon in Paris
  • Ella Fitzgerald, I Love Paris
  • Joséphine Baker, Don't Touch My Tomatoes
  • Nina Simone, Ne Me Quitte Pas
  • Toots Thielemans, Ne Me Quitte Pas
  • Jimmy Rowles & Michael Moore , Waltz 70
  • Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love
  • The Hot Club of San Francisco, Jitterbug Waltz
  • Stéphane Grappelli & McCoy Tyner, Summertime
  • Claude Bolling & Stephane Grappelli, Blue Skies

Jazz After Dark, July 8, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Joe Venuti's Blue Four, Raggin' The Scale
  • Coleman Hawkins, After You've Gone
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, A Sailboat In the Moonlight
  • Artie Shaw, Diga Diga Doo
  • Oscar Aleman, Diga Diga Do
  • Oscar Aleman, Mia Casita Pequeñita
  • Oscar Aleman, Improvisaciones Sobre Boogie Woogie
  • Benny Carter, June Is Busting Out All Over
  • Cannonball Adderley, Love For Sale
  • Art Blakey, Let's Take 16 Bars
  • Wes Montgomery, Something Like Bags
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Imagine My Frustration
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet ft. Jim Hall, Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  • Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, I'm A Stranger Here Myself

Jazz After Dark, July 1, 2025

Some old-fashioned jazz tonight:

  • Benny Goodman, Swing into Spring
  • Fletcher Henderson, Livery Stable Blues
  • Fletcher Henderson, Grand Terrace Swing
  • Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Moten Swing
  • Benny Goodman, Life Goes to a Party
  • Benny Goodman, Fascinating Rhythm
  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Black Beauty
  • Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge, Pass The Bounce
  • George Lewis, Panama
  • Louis Armstrong, Sweethearts On Parade
  • Oscar Peterson & Louis Armstrong, Moon Song
  • Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet, Exactly LIke You
  • Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet, Embraceable You
  • New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, When the Saints Go Marching In
  • New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Bourbon Street Parade
  • Louise Tobin and Peanuts Hucko, I Am Confessin'

Jazz After Dark, June 24, 2025

On tonight’s show:

  • Count Basie, vocal Helen Humes, My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  • Oscar Aleman, Cherokee
  • Charlie Parker, I'll Remember April
  • Stan Getz, Four
  • Sarah Vaughan, All the Things You Are
  • Miles Davis, Oleo
  • Frank Sinatra, Have You Met Miss Jones
  • Sonny Stitt, Confirmation
  • Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete, Days of Wine and Roses
  • Boots Randolph, The Girl from Ipanema
  • Erroll Garner, All the Things You Are
  • The Taylor Eigsti Trio, In A Sentimental Mood

Jazz After Dark, June 17, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Chick Webb, In A Little Spanish Town
  • Kansas City Six, Countless Blues
  • Artie Shaw, Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Stairway to the Stars (Single Version)
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Nona
  • Billie Holiday, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Gerry Mulligan, Disc Jockey Jump
  • Lena Horne, Cole Porter Medley
  • Ahmad Jamal, No Greater Love (Live)
  • Sonny Clark Trio, Softly As In a Morning Sunrise
  • Herbie Mann, Consolacao (Consolation)
  • Shirley Scott with Stanley Turrentine, Deep Down Soul

Jazz After Dark, June 10, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes and His Three Blind Mice, St. Louis Blues
  • Benny Goodman, Exactly Like You
  • Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
  • Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters, Jubilesta 
  • Lester Young & The Kansas City Six, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
  • Count Basie, Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
  • Anita O'Day, Watch the Birdie [Album Version]
  • Freddy Martin, Tonight We Love
  • Major Glenn Miller & The American Band Of The Allied Expeditionary Force, Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Oop Bop Sh' Bam
  • Sidney Bechet, Old Stack O'Lee Blues
  • Artie Shaw, Stop and Go Mambo
  • Etta Jones,  Long Long Journey
  • Ahmad Jamal, - Raincheck
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Just One Of Those Things
  • The Don Ellis Orchestra, Alone

Jazz After Dark, May 27, 2025

On tonight's show:

  • Billie Holiday, What a Little Moonlight
  • Oscar Peterson, I've Got You Under My Skin
  • Ahmad Jamal, Ahmad's Blues
  • Boots Randolph, Stack of Dollars
  • Yusef Lateef, Ain't Misbehavin'
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Thanks for the Memory (1966 Version)
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Lonely Street
  • Eddie Lockjaw Davis with Paul Gonsalves, The Man with The Horn
  • Zoot Sims, Up a Lazy River
  • Abbey Lincoln, You Gotta Pay the Band
  • Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, A Ballad
  • Gerry Mulligan, Out Back of The Barn
  • Gerry Mulligan & Jane Duboc, Wave
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