Tonight on Jazz After Dark: songs from 1927 to 1969. Fats Waller, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra with Johnny Hodges, Roland Kirk, Nat King Cole, Al Hirt, Miles Davis, Bud Powell Trio (Kenny Clark drum solo), Johnny Hodges, Herbie Mann, and then Ella Fitzgerald with the Ernie Heckscher Big Band & Tommy Flanagan.
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Tonight’s show: Duke Ellington, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman Quartet, Sidney Bechet, Oscar Peterson (with Billie Holiday), Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Buddy Collette, George Barnes Quartet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Hank Jones, Jimmy Rosenberg, and Count Basie and the Kansas City Septem.
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Tonight’s show: Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, the Thelonious Monk Quintet, Ethel Ennis, Bing Crosby with Louis Armstrong, the Billy Taylor Trio, Lou Donaldson, Abbe Lane, Louis Armstrong, Etta Jones, Stanley Turrentine & The Three Sounds, Ike Quebec, Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter.
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Tonight we’ll hear: Edmond Hall, Erskine Hawkins, Helen Carr, the Gigi Gryce Quartet, Jean-Pierre Sasson, Ella Fitzgerald with Plas Johnson, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Wilson, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Count Basie, Big Miller & Tommy Banks, Tony Bennett, and Stanley Turrentine.
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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: vocals by Louis Armstrong, then cool jazz, soul jazz, and lots of rhythm. Instrumentals by Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, Chico Hamilton, Erroll Garner, Herbie Mann, Ray Barretto, Ramsey Lewis, Billy Butler, and the Jonny Lewis Quartet.
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Tonight’s program features Lester Young and Billie Holiday from the 1940s in the first half. We’ll year Young with the Kansas City Six, with Nat "King" Cole and Buddy Rich, and accompanying Holiday. West Coast cool in the second half: Bud Shank, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz with Kenny Barron, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and Victor Biglione.
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Mellow jazz tonight on Jazz After Dark: Benny Carter & Oscar Peterson Trio, Tommy Flanagan, Art Pepper, Miles Davis, Lester Young, Johnny Hodges, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Peggy Lee, Sonny Clark, Trudy Desmond, Houston Person, and Ramsey Lewis.
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All live performances tonight: Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Roy Eldridge, Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, George Benson, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis.
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Jazz classics tonight:
- Sentimental Journey -- Doris Day with Les Brown
- I Loves You Porgy -- Billie Holiday, Bobby Tucker on piano
- My Funny Valentine -- Artie Shaw
- In a Sentimental Mood -- Duke Ellington
- They Can't Take That Away From Me -- Joni James
- C Jam Blues -- Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges
- Calling Dr. Funk -- The Vince Guaraldi Quartet
- Fly Me to the Moon -- Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra
- Honeysuckle Rose -- Les Paul
- Muskrat Ramble -- Louis Armstrong
- My Favorite Things, Part 1 -- John Coltrane Quartet
- O Pato (The Duck) -- Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- Chet Baker
- Four -- Stan Getz
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We're featuring Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines tonight. We’ll hear Armstrong with Billie Holiday, Sy Oliver, and with his All Stars, as well as selections from Porgy & Bess with Ella Fitzgerald. Then we have Earl "Fatha" Hines in a live concert, some solo work, and with Johnny Hodges.
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