Jazz standards by classic performers tonight.
Louis Armstrong and His Hot 7 with Potato Head Blues, Artie Shaw doing Begin the Beguine, Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian with Rose Room and Benny Goodman doing Body and Soul. We'll hear Erroll Garner with his composition Misty, Andy Kirk doing A Mellow Bit Of Rhythm. Miles Davis performs 'Round About Midnight, Louis Prima with Body And Soul, Ella Fitzgerald sings Fascinating Rhythm. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play Lullaby Of Birdland; Billie Pool with Stormy Weather, Duke Ellington doing One O'Clock Jump. Ella Fitzgerald: performs You'll Have to Swing It, and then we take it out with Dianne Reeves singing Ain't Nobody's Business (If I Do).
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Our featured performer tonight is Tommy Flanagan, mellow jazz pianist whose recording career spanned more than four decades with his own band, as sideman on countless albums, and as the primary accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald for over a decade.
We’ll hear the Tommy Flanagan Trio; Tommy Flanagan with Paul Chambers, Pepper Adams, Kenny Burrell & Kenny Clarke. Then playing with the Benny Golson Quartet, Illinois Jacquet, Benny Carter, and backing Ella Fitzgerald.
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Sidney Bechet, Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter, Billy Taylor, Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, Duke Ellington, and Claude Bolling.
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, Richard Twardzik Russ Freeman, Clark Terry, Shelly Manne & His Men, The Modest Jazz Trio, Luiz Bonfá & Stan Getz, Sam Rivers, Pepper Adams Quintet with Thad Jones, Lee Morgan, and The Dave Brubeck Quartet
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Bunny Berigan, Sarah Vaughan with Georgie Auld & His Orchestra, Peggy Lee. Gene Ammons, Nat King Cole, Johnny Hodges, Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Don Ellis, Abdullah Ibrahim & Buddy Tate, Shirley Horn, and Pharoah Sanders & William Henderson
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Music of Cole Porter tonight on Jazz After Dark. Prolific composer of the 20th Century, many of his songs became jazz standards thanks to vocal albums by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Julie London. We'll also hear instrumental versions from Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Duke Ellington, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Stephane Grapelli, and Stuff Smith, as well as contemporary vocal covers by Dianne Reeves and Diana Krall.
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Charlie Parker, Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Nat King Cole, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfá, Gerry Mulligan & Jane Duboc, Billy Taylor Trio, Jelly Roll Johnson, Bria Skonberg, Bill Evans & Jim Hall, Jim Hall with Pat Metheny.
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Jack Teagarden, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Vince Guaraldi, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Cannonball Adderley, Claude Bolling Big Band, Gerry Mulligan, Marc Copland & Vic Juris
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Louis Armstrong, Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald, Art Pepper, Louis Prima, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra with Lawrence Brown, Frank Sinatra, Earl Fatha Hines, Tony Bennett, Paul Desmond, Dave Weckl
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: spanning eight decades. Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Gerald Wiggins, Ella Fitzgerald, Yusef Lateef, Stanley Turrentine, Count Basie with Zoot Sims, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Harold Mabern Trio, Jimmy Rosenberg and The Rosenberg Trio.
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