Jazz classics tonight:
- Benny Goodman, Stardust
- Fats Waller, The Joint Is Jumpin'
- Ella Fitzgerald, Stairway To The Stars
- Billie Holiday , God Bless the Child
- Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker, Shaw 'Nuff
- Charlie Parker, Lover Man
- Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump
- Don Shirley, Water Boy
- Dave Brubeck Trio, Body and Soul
- Duke Ellington, Jimmy Blanton, Pitter Panther Patter
- Oliver Nelson, Stolen Moments
- Cannonball Adderley, Sabbath Prayer
- Ella Fitzgerald, It's All Right With Me
- Horace Silver, Song for My Father
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Classics tonight on Jazz After Dark:
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, I'm Alabama Bound
Teddy Wilson, How High the Moon
Art Tatum, Makin' Whoopee
Winifred Atwell, Boogie in the Groove
Winifred Atwell, The Charleston
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
Les McCann, The Truth
Les McCann Ltd. & Lou Rawls, (They Call It) Stormy Monday
Ray Charles, Birth of the Blues
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete, Star Song |
Some of the great female vocalists on Jazz After Dark tonight: Etta Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Ennis, Helen Humes, Lena Horne, Carmen McRae, Helen Merrill, Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan, Gerry Mulligan & Jane Duboc, Lena Horne, Jo Stafford, Nara Leão, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
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Our featured performers tonight: Art Tatum And His Band, Thelonious Monk & Clark Terry Quartet, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald in concert, Mel Tormé, and Gerry Mulligan.
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Tonight’s show: Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra, Barney Kessel, Annie Ross & Zoot Sims (Russ Freeman piano), Lee Morgan & Clifford Jordan, Clifford Jordan, Herb Ellis & Stuff Smith, Ella Fitzgerald & The Marty Paich Orchestra, Dorothy Donegan, and Deodato.
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On tonight’s show: Earl Bostic, Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Jefferson, Horace Parlan, Ray Bryan with Walter Booker Jr. & Freddie Waits, WDR Big Band Köln with Joe Williams and Milt Jackson, George Robert, Dal Richards & His Orchestra, and Ximo Tebar & the Ivam Jazz Ensemble.
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Upbeat jazz for the New Year: Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, Oscar Aleman, Harry Roy & His Orchestra, Earl Bostic, Heritage Hall Jazz Band, Pete Fountain, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sam Butera, Louis Prima, Claude Bolling, Jean-Luc Dayan & Steve La Spina, James Rivers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Boots Randolph.
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Seasonal music tonight: Toms Mucenieks with his minor key version of Silent Night Sad Christmas. Then Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington live on Ed Sullivan in December 1961, Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall, Ella Fitzgerald, Vince Guaraldi Trio and Vince Guaraldi in a live performance, Art Pepper, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Cyrus Chestnut, Dave Brubeck, Pharoah Sanders & William Henderson, Al Di Meola, and Enrico Pieranunzi. Then we’ll take it out with Mahalia Jackson’s rendition of "Silent Night."
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Upbeat jazz tonight: Pete Fountain, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Wes Montgomery, Ramsey Lewis, Nancy Wilson with Ramsey Lewis, Don Ellis, George Benson, June Katz, The Manhattan Transfer, Stanley Jordan, and The Godfathers of Groove.
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On tonight’s show: Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan with Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Nat King Cole, Gabor Szabo, Herbie Mann, Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, Shirley Horn, and Benny Carter.
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