On this episode: Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Keep Smilin', Keep Laughin', Be Happy Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, I Can't Get Started Wynonie Mr Blues Harris, Earl Bostic, Earl Bostic - Ain't Misbehavin' Earl Bostic, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Original King Recording) Ella Fitzgerald, Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) Nat King Cole, I Know That You Know (Stuff Smith violin) Ruby Braff, Medley Bidin  My Time  But Not For Me ...

On tonight's show: Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Couldn't Help It Chick Webb, Deep In a Dream (1939, feat. Ella Fitzgerald) Harry James, All Of Me (Helen Ward vocals) Sonny Stitt, Skylark Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, I Cover the Waterfront Duke Ellington, Kinda Dukish & Rockin' in Rhythm Brew Moore, Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) Art Pepper, Walkin' Shoes Art Pepper and Sonny Redd, What's New Art Pepper, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Art...

Six longer sets tonight: Red Garland, Soul Junction Jimmy Smith, Midnight Special Art Pepper, You Go to My Head WDR Big Band Köln & Joe Williams, Milt Jackson, Since I Fell For You Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, One By One Wynton Marsalis, Doin' Your Thing

On tonight’s show: Benny Carter, Beale Street Blues Artie Shaw, Special Delivery Stomp Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Blues In the Night Lester Young, I Got Rhythm Ray Anthony, The Man With A Horn Art Pepper, Patricia Johnny Hodges, Take the "A" Train Stan Getz Quartet & Mose Allison, Polka Dots and Moonbeams Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun Ernie Wilkins And His Orchestra, All Of You Benny Goodman & Quartet, I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) João Gilberto & Stan Getz,...

On this episode: Louis Armstrong, Basin Street Blues Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans Louis Armstrong, Mahogany Hall Stomp Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You? Lee Morgan, All the Way Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Chet Baker, My Funny Valentine Pete Fountain, Milenberg Joys Buddy Rich, Willowcrest Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, Autumn In New York Don Ellis, Image of Maria Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dorthaan's Walk  

Jazz masters on this episode: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Ory's Creole Trombone Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Potato Head Blues Artie Shaw, At Sundown Sidney Bechet, Si tu vois ma mère Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet, I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, I Cover the Waterfront Billie Holiday & Lester Young, Fine and Mellow Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, Line for Lyons Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, The Cat Walk Duke Ellington with...

On this episode: Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra (Beiderbecke), Singin' The Blues Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Red Norvo, Hank Jones, Sleepwalker Boogie Art Pepper, Jazz Me Blues Milt Jackson, Sermonette Ron Carter, Eric Dolphy And Mal Waldron, Bass Duet Machito with Cannonball Adderley, Congo Mulence Dave Brubeck/Tony Bennett, That Old Black Magic Ray Bryant(p), Walter Booker Jr.(b) & Freddie Waits(ds), Gotta Travel On Ray Charles, Sidewinder Joni James, Just One...

Classic jazz tonight: Erskine Hawkins, After Hours Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump Benny Goodman (Helen Ward vocals), You Turned the Tables On Me Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Jeru Doris Day with Les Brown, Sentimental Journey Doris Day, Makin' Whoopee Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet, Mamblues Ella Fitzgerald, Love For Sale Art Pepper with Conte Candoli, Old Devil Moon Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place Earl "Fatha" Hines, Black Coffee Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges,...

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.

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

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...

On tonight’s show: Glenn Miller, Chattanooga Choo Choo Artie Shaw, Back Bay Shuffle Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, L'Uccellin volo' volo' Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, Il Ritmo dell'amore Sidney Bechet, Sweet Lorraine Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith , Here Comes The Boogie Man - 20 - Benny Goodman, Wholly Cats Erroll Garner, Somebody Loves Me Erroll Garner, Stardust Illinois Jacquet, Memories Of You Tommy Dorsey, I'll Never Smile Again/Tico Tico Ella Fitzgerald (with The Delta Rhythm Boys), For...

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  

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...

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

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...

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...

On tonight’s show: Will Bradley Trio (Don Raye vocals), Down The Road A Piece Billie Holiday, Baby, I Don't Cry Over You Miles Davis, Baby Won't You Please Come Home Johnny Hodges, Blues-A-Plenty Mary Lou Williams, It Ain't Necessarily So Mary Lou Williams, Olinga Sarah Vaughan, Gloomy Sunday Sarah Vaughan, Have You Met Miss Jones? Sarah Vaughan live concert, Rainy Days and Monday Tommy Flanagan, Beyond The Bluebird Gerry Mulligan with Dave Brubeck, These Foolish Things Junior Mance, Stormy...

Jazz for Valentine’s Day:   Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Jimmy Yancey, State Street Special Nat King Cole, L-O-V-E Jimmy Hamilton, I Can't Give You Anything But Love Hal McKusick, What's New Pérez Prado & His Orchestra, Besame Mucho Bobby Timmons, Chet Baker and His Crew, Lucious Lu The Ella Fitzgerald Quarter, My Funny Valentine Lee Morgan, P.S. I Love You Pete Fountain, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Pete Fountain, Poor...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.