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
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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.
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Five longer sets on Jazz After Dark tonight. We’ll hear:
• Freedom Jazz Dance -- Eddie Harris
• So What -- Miles Davis
• My Favorite Things -- John Coltrane
• The Sidewinder -- Lee Morgan
• Round Midnight -- Charlie Rouse
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We have jazz standards tonight by Billie Holiday, Louis Prima, Artie Shaw, Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald & Buddy Bregman, Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Joni James, Chuck Wayne Trio, Budd Johnson with Earl "Fatha" Hines, Oscar Peterson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dianne Reeves, The Duke Robillard Jazz Trio, and Larry Carlton.
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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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Cool jazz and some bossa nova tonight: Miles Davis, the Jimmy Giuffre 3, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Clare Fischer, Paul Desmond, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Johnny Hodges, Charlie Rouse, and Dave Brubeck.
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We focus on jazz piano tonight. We’ll hear from The Tommy Flanagan Trio, Al Cohn & Zoot Sims, Johnny Hodges, Monty Alexander, Nancy Wilson & Ramsey Lewis, Richard Elliot, Hank Jones, Houston Person, Ben Paterson, Johnny Varro, and Toots Thielemans.
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Tonight’s show has lots of rhythm, spanning 1926 to 1999: Benny Goodman, Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers, Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Red Norvo, Hank Jones. Also Machito with Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson, Dave Brubeck with Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Ron Carter with Eric Dolphy and Mal Waldron, Ray Bryant, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Herbie Mann, The Crusaders, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Wynton Marsalis.
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Tonight’s show: Oscar Aleman, Fats Waller with Jack Teagarden & Eddie Condon, Julie London, Dave Brubeck, Freddie Gambrell, Benny Carter with Ben Webster & Barney Bigard, Jimmy Smith & Lalo Schifrin, Frank Strozier, Oscar Peterson, Stanley Turrentine, Dianne Reeves, and Cornell Dupree.
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Tonight’s show: the music of George and Ira Gershwin. First George Gershwin himself, then Benny Goodman, Helen Merrill, Mel Tormé with Marty Paich, Julie London, Miles Davis, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, the Vince Guaraldi Trio, Stan Getz, Art Pepper & Bill Perkins, Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Joe Pass, Dianne Reeves, and Marian McPartland with Gene Harris.
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