After Hours 3

Hard to believe that I am on volume three of this pick. I really was originally thinking I might get lucky and do a couple of these. The more I hear, the more I like it though. I have been playing all the volumes in my house. Hopefully you are liking them too. I called it After Hours, because it reminds me of an after hour smoky jazz club. Makes me want to light up a cigar and drink a brandy. Go listen to the others in the series. This one features mostly female torch singers and a few AI females. Definitely not traditional.

After Hours 3

40 Rickie Lee Jones - Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying

41 Abbey Lincoln - Blue Monk

42 Diana Krall - Almost Blue

43 Lana Del Rey - Blue Velvet

44 Vintage Echoes - Pour Me Slow

45 Peggy Lee - Black Coffee

46 Cosmai - I Love Paul

47 Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox featuring Haley Reinhart - Seven Nation Army

48 Shirley Horn - Here's to Life

49 Kaite Bush - Physical

50 Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind

51 Billie Holiday - You Don't Know What Love Is

52 Blossom Dearie - Once Upon A Summertime

53 Helen Merrill - What's New

54 June Christy - Something Cool

55 Dinah Washington - Drinking Again

56 Kaite Bush - Oops

57 Cassandra Wilson - Strange Fruit

58 Julie London - Cry Me A River

59 Sarah Vaughan - September Song

After Hours 2

Yesterday’s pick set the scene — tonight’s keeps the lights low and the room quieter. The air feels thicker, the piano slower, the bass heavier, like it’s learned something from the silence. This one leans deeper into that after-midnight calm — where the smoke curls, the clock forgets, and every note feels like it’s playing just for you. Several AI tunes made the cut again (that was the point after all), but the mood stays human — worn, warm, and wide awake at 2 a.m.

After Hours 2

22 Remix Realms - Billie Jean

23 Jimmy Scott - I'm Through With Love

24 Anarch-I-Wamba - Knocked Down

25 Nat King Cole - Lonely One

26 Arthur Prysock - I Worry About You

27 True Believers - One Tequila

28 Zero Sugar - Lounge Lightning

29 Lou Rawls - Willow Weep For Me

30 Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

31 re-SOUL - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

32 Art-I Ramone - Sedated

33 AI Tendencies - Institutionalized

34 Andy Bey - In A Sentimental Mood

35 Mark Murphy - My Foolish Heart

36 Mel Torme - Blue Moon

37 Zero Sugar - A(i)ck Shun

38 Richard Cheese - Just Like Heaven

39 Doug Hilton - The Moonlight Mocks Me (It's Cold and Blue)

After Hours 1

When the lights fade and the last glass clinks, the real music begins. This pick drifts through a 1950s saloon haze — slow, smoky jazz wrapped in barroom quiet. Sparse piano and brushed snares sway around a thumping upright bass, while a low baritone croon leans close, all grit and midnight warmth. At the mic, Zero Sugar’s own boxer — no howls, just bark and heart — croons the kind of tunes made for the hour after the night ends. A couple of AI tunes here, but the rest...

After Hours 1

01 Johnny Hartman - Unforgettable

02 re-SOUL - Baby Shark

03 Dean Martin - I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)

04 Tony Bennett - I Wanna Be Around

05 Don Nelson featuring Jimmy Rowles, Leroy Vinnegar & Stan Levey - The Wind

06 Ray Charles - Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)

07 Midnight Jazz - Velvet Corners

08 Sam Cooke - Lost And Lookin'

09 Mose Allison - Lost Mind

10 Raviel Blackthorne - Tonight, I'm A Little Too Broken

11 Sammy Davis Jr. - I'm A Fool To Want You

12 Sound Of Moc - She Wore Blue Under Streetlights

13 Chet Baker - Almost Blue

14 Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

15 Lee Hazlewood - Your Sweet Love

16 Electric Prunes - Too Much To Dream (After Hours Mix)

17 Zero Sugar - Love Is Like Lounging

18 Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues

19 Jack Jones - Here's That Rainy Day

20 Zero Sugar - Faux On The Run

21 Chris Connor - Lush Life