Jazz After Dark, March 17, 2026

On tonight's show: Count Basie, Dance of the Gremlins Lester Young and His Orchestra, Back to the Land The Complete Illinois Jacquet, Jumpin' At The Woodside Sarah Vaughan, Street of Dreams (78 rpm Version) Sarah Vaughan, Black Coffee Helen O'Connell, All of Me Tiny Grimes, Annie Laurie (Jerome Richardson sax) Jerome Richardson, Candied Sweets George Lewis, Mecca Flat Blues Kai Winding, Michie (Slow Version) Kai Winding, Michie (Fast Version) Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, Samba de Uma Nota So Stan Getz, Night and Day Dick Wellstood, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Take the 'A' Train

Longer sets on tonight's show: Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis, Clementine John Lewis, Almost Like Being in Love The L.A. Four, Manhã de Carnaval Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan, Blues in Thirds Art Pepper, Over the Rainbow Tommy Flanagan, Dignified Appearance Biréli Lagrène, I've Got You Under My Skin Tommy Flanagan, The Heather on the Hill

On tonight's show: Blossom Dearie, I Won't Dance Art Pepper, Broadway Ella Fitzgerald, Rocks in My Bed Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller And Yusef Lateef, Flutie Anita O'Day, What a Little Moonlight Can Do Yusef Lateef, Kongsberg Yusef Lateef, Six Miles Next Door Al Hibbler & Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Don't Get Around Much Anymore Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bye Bye Blackbird 2 Rahsaan Roland Kirk, I'll Be Seeing You Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real Gerry Mulligan, Walk on The Water

On tonight's show: Red Norvo, Remember Count Basie and His Orchestra, Tickle Toe (78rpm Version) Bennie Moten, Moten Swing Ziggy Elman, I Have Everything to Live For Dinah Washington, John Coltrane, I Can't Remember Ella Fitzgerald, So Rare Helen O'Connell, Bye Bye Blues Jimmy Smith, One O'Clock Jump Duke Ellington, Moonbow Miles Davis, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (45-RPM Single Edit) Hugh Masekela, Inner Crisis Count Basie, Mean to me Count Basie, Blues for Joe Turner Al Di Meola, Coral Fraser MacPherson Quartet, Come Sunday

On tonight's show: Red Norvo, Remember Count Basie and His Orchestra, Tickle Toe (78rpm Version) Bennie Moten, Moten Swing Ziggy Elman, I Have Everything to Live For Dinah Washington, John Coltrane, I Can't Remember Ella Fitzgerald, So Rare Helen O'Connell, Bye Bye Blues Jimmy Smith, One O'Clock Jump Duke Ellington, Moonbow Miles Davis, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (45-RPM Single Edit) Hugh Masekela, Inner Crisis Count Basie, Mean to me Count Basie, Blues for Joe Turner Al Di Meola, Coral Fraser MacPherson Quartet, Come Sunday

On tonight's show: Cab Calloway, Minne The Moocher Jimmie Lunceford, My Blue Heaven Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Red Norvo, Hank Jones: Diga Diga Doo Gene Krupa, Mulligan Stew Count Basie and His Orchestra, Splanky The Vinnie Burke Quartet, Time Out Stan Getz Quartet & Mose Allison, Down Beat Sonny Criss, Memories Of You Zoot Sims, On the Alamo Dinah Washington, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (feat. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra) Grant Green, Born to Be Blue Sarah Vaughan, Till the End of Time Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun (1964 Version) Yusef Lateef, Slippin' And Slidin'

On tonight's show: Fletcher Henderson, Hot and Anxious Benny Goodman, Moon Glow  Laurindo Almeida - Jazz West Coast, Speak Low Benny Carter, June in January Gigi Gryce Quartet, It Don't Mean A Thing Buddy Greco, Something's Gotta Give Tiny Grimes, Frankie and Johnny (feat. Jerome Richardson) Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra & Dodo Marmarosa, The Moose Chet Baker, It Never Entered My Mind Ella Fitzgerald, You're My Thrill Erroll Garner, That Amsterdam Swing Chris Barber, I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate Cornell Dupree, 'Round Midnight Diane Lines, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby Dick Wellstood, Red Sails in the Sunset  

On tonight's show: Bix Beiderbecke, Three Blind Mice Buddy DeFranco, Little Girl Blue Barney Kessel, Blues For A Playboy Tal Farlow, Night and Day Annie Ross and Zoot Sims, You're Driving Me Crazy Annie Ross, I'm Nobody's Baby Howard Roberts, Dirty Old Bossa Nova Chuck Wayne Trio, Lady's Love Song Nara Leão, Desafinado Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Sunday Ella Fitzgerald, Days of Wine and Roses Cedar Walton, This Guys In Love With You Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, Miles Ahead Jimmy Cobb, Book's Bossa (Roy Hargrove trumpet)

On tonight's show: Bix Beiderbecke, Three Blind Mice Buddy DeFranco, Little Girl Blue Barney Kessel, Blues For A Playboy Tal Farlow, Night and Day Annie Ross and Zoot Sims, You're Driving Me Crazy Annie Ross, I'm Nobody's Baby Howard Roberts, Dirty Old Bossa Nova Chuck Wayne Trio, Lady's Love Song Nara Leão, Desafinado Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Sunday Ella Fitzgerald, Days of Wine and Roses Cedar Walton, This Guys In Love With You Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, Miles Ahead Jimmy Cobb, Book's Bossa (Roy Hargrove trumpet)

On tonight's show: Milt Jackson & Ray Charles, Love On My Mind Cannonball Adderley, Another Kind of Soul Lou Donaldson, Blues Walk Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Pennies From Heaven Gene Ammons, Blue Ammons Bobby Timmons, Dat Dare Horace Silver, Sister Sadie Stanley Turrentine, Gravy Train Brother Jack McDuff, Talkin' 'Bout My Woman Gabor Szabo, Gary McFarland & Lena Horne, The Fool On the Hill Houston Person (Etta Jones vocals), Don't Misunderstand Houston Person, All Soul