We'll hear new music from SUM, pay tribute to the late Sharon Jones, and hear Milton Nascimento's reimagining of John Lennon's "Imagine."
UpFront Soul #2016.50 Playlist
Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" on A&M SUM "Test the Waters" from "SUM" on Belvilus Entertainment Music Bernard Purdie "Conscious" from "Lialeh" Joan Armatrading "In These Times" from "Me Myself I World Tour Live at Wolf Trap" on 429 Records Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings "Better Things" from "Better Things" on Dap-Tone Slavic Soul Party "Mount Harissa" from "Duke Ellington's Far East Suite" Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings "This Land is Your Land" from "Naturally" on Dap-Tone Milton Nascimento "Imagine" from "Anos 2000" Phil Upchurch "Nothing But the Soul" from "You Can't Sit Down" The Brothers of Soul "Life is Like A Maze" from "100 Funk Essentials" The Jack Moves "Seasons Change" from "The Jack Moves" on WaxPoetics The Jazz Crusaders "Freedom Sound" from "Freedom Sound & Lookin' Ahead" Hour 2 Sam Cooke "Love You Most of All" from "The Man Who Invented Soul" on RCA Solomon Burke "Baby (I Wanna Be Loved)" from "Home In Your Heart" on Rhino Mahalia Jackson "Didn't It Rain" from "Moving On Up a Little Higher" on Shanachie Aretha Franklin "Maybe I'm A Fool" from "Sunday Morning Classics" Abbey Lincoln "Long As You're Living" from "abbey is blue" on Riverside Benny Spellman "I'm In Love" from "Benny Spellman Selected Favorites" Femi Kuti "1, 2, 3, 4" from "Africa Shrine" Mulatu Astatke "Yekatit" from "Mochilla Presents Timeless: Mulatu Astatke" Don Sugarcane Harris "Don't You Think I've Paid Enough" from "Sugarcane" Jackie Shane "Don't Play That Song" from "Live At The Sapphire Tavern" Mahalia Jackson "Thy Will Be Done" from "Mahalia Jackson In Concert Easter Sunday, 1967" on Sony Ella Fitzgerald "My Funny Valentine" from "Live '61" Fred Fisher Atalobhor & His Ogiza Dance Band "Say the Truth" from "International Funk" Bob James "Night Crawler" from "Heads" on CBS Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963" on RCA