Weâll swing with Blanche Calloway and her little brother Cab, get soulful with Rasheed Ali, and delve into Afrobeat with Femi Kuti, his dad Fela, and Kaleta & Super Yamba Band, plus weâll hear Indigenous jazz from Jim Pepper and Don Cherry.
UpFront Soul #2020.49 Playlist PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Charles Earland "Message from a Black Man" from Living Black! Leon Bridges "Better Man" from Coming Home Richard "Groove" Holmes "Oklahoma Toad" from Welcome Home! Soul Jazz Masters 1619 Bad Ass Band "I Am Mine" from 1619 Bad Ass Band (Digitally Remastered) Al Green "Hot Wire" from Back Up Train Sly "Spirit" from I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-1970 Barsheem "(White World, Black World) Find Happy" from What Is To Be Major on Beautiful Robin Music Saun & Starr "If Only" from Saun & Starr Ahmad Jamal "Haitian Market Place" from Macanudo Somi "Love Juju #1" from The Lagos Music Salon Stormie Winters "Foolish Dreamer" from Rare Soul Authentic Vinyl Editions Richard "Groove" Holmes "Mean Old Frisco Blues" from Welcome Home! Soul Jazz Masters Solomon Burke "Cry to Me" from Home In Your Heart Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Jericho" from Gospel Train + Sister on Tour (Bonus Track Version) Carlton Pearson Featuring Joshua Nelson "How I Got Over" from Live at Azusa 3 on Atlantic Mahalia Jackson "Didn't It Rain" from Moving On Up A Little Higher Don Cherry "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from Organic Music Society Jim Pepper "Yon A Ho" from Pepper's Pow Wow Erskine Hawkins & His 'Bama State Collegians "Swinging In Harlem" from The World of Swing Cab Calloway "Minnie the Moocher (Rare 1933 Alternate Take)" from Cocaine Blues: Vintage Songs About Cocaine & Heroin Blanche Calloway "Just a Crazy Song" Kaleta & Super Yamba Band "Black Man's Cry (Live)" Fela Kuti "Swegbe & Pako" from The Underground Spiritual Game Femi Kuti "Action Time" from No Place for My Dream Santiago "Feelin' Good" on Athens of the North Blackbuster "Old Man" from Funk Mode Rasheed Ali "We Got Soul" from 1968 Black Power on Digital Rain Factory Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M