We'll open with Michele Thomas' sensational jazz tribute to Stevie Wonder, hear some vintage rebel music from South Africa, and kick back with some go-go from Trouble Funk. All this and more funk, soul, jazz, and gospel... coming your way on UpFront Soul!
UpFront Soul #2015.21 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" Michele Thomas "Big Brother" from "Messenger" Ahmad Jamal "M.A.S.H. Theme" from "M*A*S*H (Soundtrack)" Esquerita "On Broadway" from "Sinner Man: The Lost Session" Gloria Jones "Tainted Love" from "Songs Before Other Acts Made Them Famous" Trouble Funk "Good Times" from "In Times of Trouble" Anthony Hamilton "Writing on the Wall" from "Back To Love" National Wake "Wake of the Nation" from "Walk in Africa 1979-81" Gil Scott-Heron "Not Needed" from "Real Eyes" The Soul Children "I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To" from "I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To" Nina Simone "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" from "The Essential Nina Simone" Tia Fuller "Simpli-city" from "Angelic Warrior" Copperwire "Mahalia Einstein" from "Earthbound"
Hour 2 B.B King "Help the Poor" from "Talent, 30 Original Songs: B.B. King" Les James Trio "Joe's Thing" from "Alive" Bobby McFerrin "25:15:00" from "SpiritYouAll" L. C. Cooke "Put Me Down Easy" from "Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story" King Curtis "Linda" from "Have Tenor Sax, Will Blow" The Sheiks "Eternal Love" from "Jamaica To Toronto: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974" Bobby Womack "Take Me" from "Take Me" Miles Davis "Once Upon a Summertime" from "Quiet Nights" Billy Paul "Jesus Boy (You Only Look Like A Man)" from "Going East" Mahalia Jackson "Elijah Rock" from "Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting With Mahalia Jackson" Dorothy Ashby "Rascality" from "Jazz Harp Essentials" Nina Simone "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" from "The Essential Nina Simone" Mulatu Astatke "The Radcliffe" from "Mochilla Presents Timeless: Mulatu Astatke" Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963"