Jazz After Dark Archives

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Jazz After Dark, Nov. 15, 2022

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.

Jazz After Dark, Nov. 8, 2022

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.

Jazz After Dark, Nov. 1, 2022

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.

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 11, 2022

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.

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 4, 2022

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.

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 27, 2022

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.

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 20, 2022

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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