On tonight’s show: Sarah Vaughan & the Hugo Peretti Orchestra, Tommy Flanagan and Paul Chambers with Pepper Adams, Kenny Burrell & Kenny Clarke, Johnny Richards, Clark Terry with Paul Gonsalves, Horace Silver, Gene Ammons, Dave Brubeck, Mose Allison, Ella Fitzgerald, the Benny Carter All-Star Sax Ensemble, and Miles Davis with Quincy Jones.
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Tonight we'll hear from: Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Gigi Gryce, Chico Hamilton, Louis Armstrong with Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Mel Tormé, Helen Merrill, and Lee Konitz & the Brazilian Band.
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We have six extended sets tonight:
- Lionel Hampton Jam Session -- Blues
- Herbie Hancock -- Watermelon Man
- Charlie Byrd -- Blues Sonata: Scherzo for an Old Shoe
- Al Jarreau -- Burst In With the Dawn
- Chet Baker -- Stella By Starlight
- Abdullah Ibrahim -- Blues For A Hip King
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On tonight’s broadcast, swing era and the 1950s: Cab Calloway, Fats Waller with Jack Teagarden & Eddie Condon, Louis Armstrong, Quintette du Hot Club de France, Sammy Price And His Bluesicians, Ella Fitzgerald, Shorty Rogers, Oscar Peterson, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Wilkins And His Orchestra, Bobby Hackett, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, the Charlie Parker Quintet, the John Kirby Sextet, Nat "King" Cole, Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper and Conte Candoli, Stanley Turrentine, Al Hirt, Eddie Jefferson, Ellis Marsalis, and the Fraser Macpherson Quartet.
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Today, from the 1940s and 50s, we have Nat King Cole, Sonny Stitt, Herbie Nichols, Ella Fitzgerald & the Oscar Peterson Trio, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The selections from the 1960s are performed by Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, and Claude Bolling. Then we’ll hear from Pedro Iturralde with Donna Hightower, Charlie Byrd and The Washington Guitar Quintet, Milt Buckner, and Houston Person.
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On this episode: From the 1920s and 30s we’ll hear Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra, Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, and Coleman Hawkins. Then we move to the '40s and '50s with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Modern Jazz Quartet, Sarah Vaughan, Miles Davis, and Mose Allison, and then we’ll take it out with Weather Report, and Cal Tjader, from the 1970s.
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: From 1955-1963 we'll hear Kai Winding with J.J. Johnson, Bobby Hackett, John Lewis, Erroll Garner, Chet Baker, Gigi Gryce Quartet, Miles Davis, Elek Bacsik, McCoy Tyner, and Art Blakey. Then we'll hear 1980s performances by Archie Shepp with Horace Parlan, and Butch Thompson.
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Tonight: Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, Italian jazz from the 1940s; then 1957 to 1965 with Teddy Wilson, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Art Pepper, Carmen McRae, Oscar Peterson, and Chico Hamilton; and then we take it out with a late-career pairing of the Dave Brubeck Quartet with Jim Hall in 2007.
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We have selections from 1937 to 1973 tonight. We’ll hear Artie Shaw, Coleman Hawkins Orchestra, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Django Reinhardt, Billie Holiday & Lester Young, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis Sextet, Modern Jazz Quartet, John Coltrane Quartet, Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, and James Moody.
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