We'll open up with the late, great Bobby Hutcherson, kick back with Jimmy Cliff, and hear a wild and wonderful brass band version of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" courtesy of the Hot 8 Brass Band.
UpFront Soul #2016.35 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" on A&M Bobby Hutcherson "Hangin' Out (With You)" from "Hangin' Out (With You)" Butcher Brown "Jheri Curl Juice" from "Grown Folk" Roberta Flack "Go Up Moses" from "Quiet Fire" on Atlantic Joan Armatrading "Wishing" from "To The Limit" on A&M Johnny Hammond "I Don't Know How to Love Him (from the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar")" from "I Don't Know How to Love Him (from the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar")" Jimmy Cliff "You Can Get It If You Really Want" from "the Harder they come" on Universal Rasheed Ali "A Mother's Dream" from "A Mother's Dream" Miles Davis & Gil Evans "Prayer" from "Porgy & Bess" Joe Hicks "Life & Death in G & A" from "I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower" Eddie Harris "Cold Duck Time" from "Artist's Choice: The Eddie Harris Anthology"
Hour 2
Mahalia Jackson "Lord Don't Let Me Fail" from "Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting With Mahalia Jackson" on COLUMBIA/LEGACY The Magnificent Sevenths Brass Band "Feel So Good" from "Authentic New Orleans Jazz Funeral" Bobby Marchan "Oooh La La" from "Bobby Marchan - A Man Apart" Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" from "The Man Who Invented Soul Disc 1" Yusef Lateef "Bishop Schools" from "Detroit" on Savoy Nina Simone "Ooh Child" from "Essential Nina Simone Vol.2" Larry and Tommy "Here Comes the Judge" from "Super Funk 1" JC Davis "A New Day (is Here at Last-alternate take)" from "A New Day! The Complete Mus-I-Col Recordings of JC Davis" Mary Jane Hooper "I'm in a Lovin' Groove" from "I'm a Good Woman Vol. 3" Geraldo Pino & the Heartbeats "Power to the People" from "Heavy Heavy Heavy" Abdullah Ebrahim "Mannenberg" from "Essential South African Jazz: The Jo'burg Sessions" Miriam Makeba "Teya Teya (Original single 1972)" from "Teya Teya / Lovely Lies" Hot 8 Brass Band "Sexual Healing" from "Butter Soundtrack" Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963" on RCA