On this episode: we’ve got some '30s jazz first, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, and Lester Young. Then samba and bossa nova, with Stan Getz our featured artist, working with Gary McFarland, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and we’ll hear Paul Desmond and Walter Wanderley. For the rest of the program, it’s Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, The Rosenberg Trio, Dianne Reeves with Fabrizio Bosso, Allen Toussaint, and Jim Hall ..read more

On tonight’s show: Gene Krupa, Opus One (Anita O'Day vocals) Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White Ella Fitzgerald, I Loves You Porgy Chet Baker, Extra Mild Helen Merrill, Night And Day Benny Carter, Cherry Joni James, Dream A Little Dream Of Me Grover Washington, Jr., Lover Man Don Ellis, 8 Nicole Dorothy Donegan, These Foolish Things Cal Tjader/Carmen McRae, Besame Mucho Oscar Peterson with Joe Pass, A-Tisket, A-Tasket Boogaloo Joe Jones, Brown Bag ..read more

On tonight’s show: Peggy Lee, I Don't Know Enough About You Erroll Garner, I Cover the Waterfront Art Pepper, Nutmeg Julie London, Blue Moon Jimmy Smith, Embraceable You Ella Fitzgerald & Frank Devol's Orchestra, Goody, Goody Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, I'm Beginning To See The Light Gene Krupa (Anita O'Day vocals), Georgia On My Mind Oscar Peterson & Ray Brown, You Are My Sunshine (Live) Cal Tjader, Linda Chicana Abdullah Ibrahim, Just You, Just Me June Katz, Smooth Sailin' Stan Getz, Kenny Barron, Soul Eyes ..read more

Tonight we’ll hear: Billie Holiday, Good Morning Heartache Benny Goodman, Oh! Baby Ella Fitzgerald, My Funny Valentine (Live) Django Reinhardt, Nuages Chet Baker, How Long Has This Been Going On Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana (Live) Cannonball Adderley, Straight No Chaser Yusef Lateef, Kongsberg Ramsey Lewis Trio, You Don't Know Me Gerry Mulligan, Walk On The Water Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef, Trouble In Mind (Live) Charlie Byrd and the Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza   ..read more

On tonight’s show: Nat King Cole Trio, Honeysuckle Rose Thelonious Monk, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Gerry Mulligan, The Preacher Miles Davis,  Will O' the Wisp Sergio Mendes, On Green Dolphin Street Herbie Mann & The Bill Evans Trio, Nirvana Ed Thigpen, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Rosa & Tommy Flanagan, Old Devil Moon Don Ellis, Quiet Longing Milcho Leviev & Multiple Personalities, Invincible Ramsey Lewis, Do What You Wanna Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Echoes of Primitive Ohio and Chili Dogs Count Basie, (We Ain't Got) No Special Thing The Crusaders, Stomp and Buck ..read more

It’s mostly blues, funk, and soul jazz tonight. Dave Brubeck Quintet, Alan Dawson’s drum solo from Take Five Art Tatum, Blues In C Lou Donaldson, Grits And Gravy Benny Carter, Cotton Tail Horace Silver, The Skunky Funky Blues Horace Silver Quintet, The Preacher James Rivers, Smokey the Funky Soprano Chico O'Farrill, Guaguasi Benny Golson Funky Quintet, Blues March Houston Person, Please Send Me Someone to Love ..read more

On tonight’s show: Erroll Garner, All of Me Artie Shaw, Too Marvelous for Words Earl Bostic, Always Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges, Sentimental Lady Ella Fitzgerald, Sweet Georgia Brown Paul Gonsalves & Enrique Villegas - i can't get started Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan, Unfinished Woman Boogaloo Joe Jones, Jamaica Farewell Dianne Reeves, I Concentrate On You Jim Hall, Two's Blues Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza David Benoit, Charlie Brown Theme Biréli Lagrène, Come Fly with Me ..read more

We have jazz classics tonight: Louis Armstrong, West End Blues Benny Goodman, Sing Sing Sing Billie Holiday, I Wished On the Moon Coleman Hawkins & Stanley Black, Honeysuckle Rose Count Basie (Jimmy Rushing vocals), Exactly Like You Fats Waller, Georgia On My Mind Django Reinhardt, Swing Guitar Ella Fitzgerald and the Ray Charles Singers, Smooth Sailing Sonny Rollins, St. Thomas Vince Guaraldi Trio, Fenwyck's Farfel Vince Guaraldi Trio, Cast Your Fate to the Wind Dave Brubeck, Kathy's Waltz Thelonious Monk, 01 - Round Midnight (Take 2) Duke Ellington, C Jam Blues Erroll Garner, Misty ..read more

Jazz classics tonight: Louis Armstrong, West End Blues Benny Goodman, Sing Sing Sing Billie Holiday, I Wished On the Moon Coleman Hawkins & Stanley Black, Honeysuckle Rose Count Basie (Jimmy Rushing vocals), Exactly Like You Fats Waller, Georgia On My Mind Django Reinhardt, Swing Guitar Ella Fitzgerald and the Ray Charles Singers, Smooth Sailing Sonny Rollins, St. Thomas Vince Guaraldi Trio, Fenwyck's Farfel Vince Guaraldi Trio, Cast Your Fate to the Wind Dave Brubeck, Kathy's Waltz Thelonious Monk, 01 - Round Midnight (Take 2) Duke Ellington, C Jam Blues Erroll Garner, Misty   ..read more

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 Ramsey Lewis Trio/Eldee Young, My Babe (Live) Ramsey Lewis Trio, The Caves (Live) Claude Bolling Big Band, Clap In Five Claude Bolling, Coup de Chapeau ..read more