All live performances tonight: Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Roy Eldridge, Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, George Benson, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis.
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Jazz classics tonight:
- Sentimental Journey -- Doris Day with Les Brown
- I Loves You Porgy -- Billie Holiday, Bobby Tucker on piano
- My Funny Valentine -- Artie Shaw
- In a Sentimental Mood -- Duke Ellington
- They Can't Take That Away From Me -- Joni James
- C Jam Blues -- Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges
- Calling Dr. Funk -- The Vince Guaraldi Quartet
- Fly Me to the Moon -- Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra
- Honeysuckle Rose -- Les Paul
- Muskrat Ramble -- Louis Armstrong
- My Favorite Things, Part 1 -- John Coltrane Quartet
- O Pato (The Duck) -- Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- Chet Baker
- Four -- Stan Getz
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We're featuring Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines tonight. We’ll hear Armstrong with Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver, and with his All Stars, as well as selections from Porgy & Bess with Ella Fitzgerald. Then we have Earl "Fatha" Hines in a live concert, some solo work, and with Johnny Hodges.
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On this episode: winter and seasonal music from Dave Brubeck, Kenny Burrell, Art Pepper, Al Di Meola, The Brubeck Brothers Quartet, The Taylor Eigsti Trio, Johnny Varro, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Red Garland Trio, Cyrus Chestnut, and Dave Brubeck again.
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Tonight’s show is the 600th episode of Jazz After Dark! We’ll hear selections from 1934 – 1969: Benny Carter, Sidney Bechet with Noble Sissle, Lena Horne, Stan Kenton and His Orchestra, Helen Carr, Gerry Mulligan, and Harold Land. Also: Ella Fitzgerald live from Copenhagen in 1959, in a newly released recording, and then Russ Freeman, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Paul Desmond, and Ben Webster.
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Coming up tonight: Louis Armstrong & Sy Oliver, Johnny Hodges, Peggy Lee & Harold Mooney, Gerry Mulligan & Johnny Hodges, Cal Tjader, Willie Bobo, Stanley Turrentine, Dave Brubeck, Eubie Blake, Mongo Santamaría, Butch Thompson, Perico Sambeat, and Kenny Burrell.
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We have some signature songs by great jazz performers tonight:
- Original Jelly Roll Blues/Jelly Roll Morton
- Potato Head Blues/Louis Armstrong and His Hot 7
- Begin the Beguine/Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
- Stompin' At the Savoy/Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
- One O'Clock Jump/Count Basie
- Round Midnight/Thelonious Monk Quintet
- Body And Soul/Coleman Hawkins
- Duke's Place/Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington
- Take The ''A'' Train/Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
- Take Five/Dave Brubeck
- My Favorite Things (Single Version)/John Coltrane
- One for my baby/Frank Sinatra
- Steppin' Out With My Baby/Tony Bennett
- So What/Miles Davis
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Tonight’s show: Thelonious Monk, Oscar Aleman, Ruby Braff, Ben Tucker & Freddie Gambrell, Duke Ellington with Johnny Hodges, Frank Strozier, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Blakey, and Benny Carter.
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Toe-tapping jazz tonight: Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, Gene Krupa, Stuff Smith, Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, Sergio Mendes, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Hodges & Septet, Billy Taylor, Duke Ellington, Boots Randolph, Mongo Santamaria, New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Louise Tobin with Peanuts Hucko, Zoot Sims, and Dal Richards & His Orchestra.
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We're commemorating jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis and record producer Creed Taylor tonight.
We’ll hear Ramsey Lewis from the '60s and '70s and then in a duet with Nancy Wilson. From Creed Taylor’s CTI label, we’ll hear George Benson, Johnny Hammond, Hubert Laws, Chet Baker with Paul Desmond and Bob James, Grover Washington, Jr., and Ron Carter.
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