Jazz After Dark Archives

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Jazz After Dark, June 6, 2023

Tonight on Jazz After Dark: a retrospective of the career of jazz pianist Earl Hines. His career spanned 1920 to 1983 and bridged early jazz, swing, bebop, and more. In his later career resurgence he did many solo performances and duets, producing over a hundred albums in the 1960s and '70s.

We’ll hear selections from his early work with Louis Armstrong, some swing recordings from Chicago in the 1930s, some live performances solo and with his orchestra from the 1950s and '60s, and then duets with Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Rushing, and Paul Gonsalves. Then a bit of Gershwin and a live performance from 1973.

Jazz After Dark, May 23, 2023

First up tonight: Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Benny Carter & Oscar Peterson Trio, Clark Terry with Marian Bruce on vocals, and in a jam session with Oscar Peterson, as well as his All-Star Sax Ensemble.

Then lots of Duke Ellington: from his live performances at Newport and in London, as well as studio recordings from the early 1960s, duet with Coleman Hawkins, and more.

Jazz After Dark, May 16, 2023

Classic jazz performances tonight:

Duke Ellington -- Take The A-Train

Louis Armstrong -- Ain't Misbehavin'

Sidney Bechet -- Blue Horizon 1944

Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane -- Honeysuckle Rose

Stan Kenton -- The Creep

Billie Holiday -- Fine and Mellow

Dave Brubeck -- Take Five

Peggy Lee  -- Black Coffee

Woody Herman Sextet -- Moten Swing

Ella Fitzgerald -- That Old Black Magic

Chet Baker -- Over the Rainbow

Sarah Vaughan -- Fascinating Rhythm

Stan Getz & Gary McFarland -- Manha De Carnaval (Morning of Carnival)

Oscar Peterson -- Night Train (Alternate Take)

Earl Hines -- Save It Pretty Mama

Jazz After Dark, May 9, 2023

On tonight’s show, we’ll hear 1930s jazz in the first half: Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Lonnie Johnson, Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy, Coleman Hawkins, and Louis Armstrong. Then we'll have west coast cool with Shorty Rogers, Stan Getz, vocal by Doris Day, Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Peterson, Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, and Dave Brubeck.

Jazz After Dark, April 18, 2023

We have jazz from the 1940s and '50s tonight: Lu Watters with Kid Ory and Albert Nicholas, Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Edmond Hall, Cab Calloway, Lester Young & His Band, Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Billie Holiday With Eddie Heywwod and His Orchestra, Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter, Charlie Shavers & Coleman Hawkins with Lil Greenwood, and the Ronnell Bright Trio.

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