This week, JoJo and the fugitives serve up Chips Chicken Banana Split, we look back at this year's Newport Jazz Festival with Nicole Mitchell and Gregory Porter, and we remember Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets.
UpFront Soul #2018.33 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading / Back to the Night / Back to the Night / A&M JoJo and the Fugitives / Chips Chicken Banana Split / Jamaica to Toronto: Soul, Funk & Reggae 1967-74 / The Dayton Sidewinders / Slippin' Into Darkness / Let's Go Down to Funksville / Grace Love & the True Loves / Nobody Sweeter / Grace Love & the True Loves / Sean Haefeli / Breaking Away / Just Beneath a Dream / Nicole Mitchell / Above the Sky / Aquarius / Gregory Porter / Water / Water / Motema Last Poets with Bernard Purdie / Blessed Are Those Who Struggle / Delights of the Garden / Reuben Wilson / The Cisco Kid / Killer Jazz Funk from Groove Merchant / Trouble Funk / Drop the Bomb / Good to Go / Stevie Wonder / As / Songs In The Key Of Life / Tamla Yusef Lateef / Mississippi Mud / The Doctor is In?and Out / The Internet / La Di Da / Hive Mind / Hour 2 Wilson Pickett / It's Too Late / American Legend / Sharon Jones / Searching for a New Day / Soul of a Woman / Rev. Kelsey / I'm a Royal Child / Screaming Gospel Holy Rollers vol 1 / Al Green / Guilty / Back Up Train / Solomon Burke / Words / Home In Your Heart / Rhino Original Five Blind Boys / I'm A Soldier / Screaming Gospel Holy Rollers Vol.1 / Emma Donovan & The Putbacks / Down City Streets / Down City Streets / Dr. Lonnie Smith / Come Together / Rise Up! / Palmetto Little Clara & Les Chacals / Pas De Playboy Pour Moi / Un Pas Apres L'Autre / Q-Sounds Recordings Pointer Sisters / Yes We Can, Can / Yes We Can Can: The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings / Allen Toussaint / Happy Times / The Best Of Allen Toussaint / Montecarlo Jazz Recordings Soul Brass Band / I Used To Love Her / I Used To Love Her / William DeVaughn / Be Thankful for What You Got / Black Power: Music of a Revolution / shout! factory Bob James / Night Crawler / Heads / CBS Sam Cooke / Havin' a Party / Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 / RCA