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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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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