We'll hear from Tank & the Bangas, check out the latest from Ahmad Jamal, and sample some Syrian soul from Bassel & the Supernaturals.
UpFront Soul #2017.25 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" on A&M Don Bryant "Nickel & A Nail" from "Don't Give up on Love" on Fat Possum Records, LLC. Ulysses Crockett "Funky Resurgance" from "Praise Poems vol 5" on Tramp Tank & the Bangas "Human" from "Think Tank" Paul Robeson "There's a Man Going 'Round Taking Names" from "Greatest Rarities Archive '56-'57" Ahmad Jamal "Marseille" from "Marseille" on Jazz Village Edith Peters "This is the Moment" from "This is the Moment" on Schema Records SZA "Supermodel" from "Ctrl" Vercky's/Orchestre Veve "Sex Veve" from "Congolese Funk, Afrobeat and Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978" Bassel & The Supernaturals "Illusion" from "Elements" The Cougars "I Wish It Would Rain" from "Jamaica To Toronto: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974" on Light In The Attic Willie Bobo "Sixty-Two Fifty" from "Hell Of An Act To Follow" Charles Taylor and the Charles Taylor Singers "I Must Live Until Morning" from "Screaming Gospel Holy Rollers Vol 2" Hour 2 Erma Franklin "Love is Blind" from "Erma Franklin: Piece of her Heart - The Epic and Shout Years" Sam Cooke "Let's Go Steady Again" from "The Man Who Invented Soul Disc 1" Al TNT Braggs "A Little Bit Closer" from "A Little Bit Closer" on Peacock Theola Kilgore "(Chain Gang) The Sound of My Man" from "(Chain Gang) The Sound of My Man" King Curtis "Let's Do the Hully Gully Twist" from "Trouble in Mind + It's Party Time (Bonus Track Version)" The Olympics "The Slop" from "Doin' the Hully Gully" on Essential Media Group Chet 'Poison' Ivey "The Slop" from "R&B Humdingers Volume 11" Los Sospechos "Jano's Revenge" from "Jano's Revenge" on Colemine Gary U.S. Bonds "Dr. Highblood" from "Certified Soul (Digitally Remastered)" Mahalia Jackson "Elijah Rock" from "Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting With Mahalia Jackson" on COLUMBIA/LEGACY Dorothy Ashby "Rascality" from "Jazz Harp Essentials" Nina Simone "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" from "The Essential Nina Simone" on RCA Joe Bataan "Young Gifted and Brown" from "Joe Bataan Anthology" on KOCH RECORDS Mickey & The Soul Generation "Get Down Brother" from "Iron Leg" on Quannum Projects Billy Paul "Let the Dollar Circulate" from "When Love is New" Lonnie Smith "Move Your Hand" from "Move Your Hand" on Blue Note Bob James "Night Crawler" from "Heads" on CBS Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963" on RCA