We'll hear new soul jazz from Courtney Pine and Omar, feature a set of Herbie Hancock originals and covers, and head to South Africa to hear from Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba.
UpFront Soul #2017.33 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading / Back to the Night / Back to the Night / A&M Courtney Pine feat. Omar / Butterfly / Butterfly / Freestyle Dave Pike / Sweet Tater Pie / Sweet Tater Pie / Atlantic Herbie Hancock feat. Tina Turner / Edith and the Kingpin / River: The Joni Letters / Emma Donovan / Black Woman / Dawn / Mop Mop / Kamakumba / Music for Dreams - Sunset Sessions Vol. 2 - Compiled by Kenneth Bager / Femi Kuti / If Them Want to Hear / Africa Shrine / Don Bryant / What Kind of Love / Don't Give up on Love / Fat Possum Records Hugh Masekela / A Person is a Sometime Thing / Early Hugh Masekela / Mary Love / Lay This Burden / Lay This Burden / Modern Miriam Makeba / West Wind Unification (Original single 1973) / Mo"louyame / West Wind Unification / Ebo Taylor / Amponsah / Ghana Funk / Hour 2 Jackie Shane / I've Really Got the Blues / Any Other Way / Numero Group Hank Ballard & the Midnighters / It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day) / Sexy Ways: The Best of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters / Herman Harris / Give Yourself to Jesus / Greg Belson's Divine Disco / Barbara George / I Know / Rock Classics Volume III / Ripete Records Esquerita / Letter Full of Tears / Sinner Man: The Lost Session / Norton Genie Brooks / Fine Time - Original / Genie Brooks' South Side Of Soul Street / Sugar Pie DeSanto / Be Happy / The Feelin's Too Strong / Be Happy (Digital 45) / Jimmy McGriff / Fat Cakes / Killer Jazz Funk From Groove Merchant Vault - Return of Jazz Funk / Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Keep On Looking / 100 Days, 100 Nights / Daptone/VME Jerry Lawson / Peace Like a River / Just a Mortal Man / Red Beet Records Junior Walker / Gimme that Beat / Gimme that Beat / Soul Leon Bridges / Smooth Sailin / Coming Home / Columbia 1619 Bad Ass Band / Rain (Always Finds Me Crying) / 1619 Bad Ass Band (Digitally Remastered) / Benny Spellman / I Didn't Know / Benny Spellman Selected Favorites / Our Trust In God / Our Trust In God / Screaming Gospel Holy Rollers Vol 2 / Orchestre Laye Thiam / Massani Cice / Senegal 70: Sonic Gems & Previosly Unreleased Recordings from the '70s / Bob James / Night Crawler / Heads / CBS Sam Cooke / Havin' a Party / Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 / RCA