A selection of jazz, funk, soul and blues songs from across the decades that speak to our present moment. Recorded late last night as I followed the news from the protests across the U.S. (note:...
A selection of jazz, funk, soul and blues songs from across the decades that speak to our present moment. Recorded late last night as I followed the news from the protests across the U.S.
(note: show also contains just a little bit of non-musical commentary from me, which I'm not entirely comfortable with, but it felt right at the time.)
Playlist:
Max Roach - Troubled Waters
Charles Mingus - Original Faubus Fables
Femi Kuti - Fight To Win
John Legend & The Roots - Hard Times
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Eddie Palmieri - Everything Is Everything
Abbey Lincoln - Let Up
Aaron Neville - Fragile World
Nina Simone - Backlash Blues
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'
Svare Forsland & Lil' Queenie Harris - Cryin' In The Streets
Gil Scott-Heron - Must Be Something
John Coltrane - Alabama
Black Blood & Chocolate Pickles - Mississippi Mud
Buckshot LeFonque - The Blackwidow Blues
Ken Boothe - Is It Because I'm Black
Joe Henderson - If You're Not Part Of The Solution You're Part Of The Problem
Donny Hathaway - Tryin' Times
Della Reese - Compared To What
Blind Willie Johnson - Lord I Just Can't Keep From Cryin'
Albert Rivera - The Injustice Of Justice
A selection of jazz, funk, soul and blues songs from across the decades that speak to our present moment. Recorded late last night as I followed the news from the protests across the U.S.
(note: show also contains just a little bit of non-musical commentary from me, which I'm not entirely comfortable with, but it felt right at the time.)
Playlist:
Max Roach - Troubled Waters
Charles Mingus - Original Faubus Fables
Femi Kuti - Fight To Win
John Legend & The Roots - Hard Times
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Eddie Palmieri - Everything Is Everything
Abbey Lincoln - Let Up
Aaron Neville - Fragile World
Nina Simone - Backlash Blues
Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'
Svare Forsland & Lil' Queenie Harris - Cryin' In The Streets
Gil Scott-Heron - Must Be Something
John Coltrane - Alabama
Black Blood & Chocolate Pickles - Mississippi Mud
Buckshot LeFonque - The Blackwidow Blues
Ken Boothe - Is It Because I'm Black
Joe Henderson - If You're Not Part Of The Solution You're Part Of The Problem
Donny Hathaway - Tryin' Times
Della Reese - Compared To What
Blind Willie Johnson - Lord I Just Can't Keep From Cryin'
Albert Rivera - The Injustice Of Justice