We'll celebrate Latin soul and jazz with Arturo O' Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Joe Bataan, and the TNT Band, plus we'll hear new music from Joan Armatrading and Khu.eex, and celebrate the genius and broad musical reach of Frank Zappa with tracks from The Persuasions and Don "Sugarcane" Harris.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1
UpFront Soul #2021.29 Playlist Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Charles Earland "Message from a Black Man" from Living Black! Rufus Harley "Nobody Knows the Trouble Us People Had Seen" from Re-Creation of the Gods Don Cherry "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from Organic Music Society Se¤or Coconut "Smoke on the Walter (Original Hamster Remix)" from Musica Moderna? Vol.1 DJ Jazzy Jeff, Raheem DeVaughn "My Peoples" from The Magnificent/Beat Generation Blackalicious "Searching" from Nia Biz Markie "Just a Friend (Live)" from Old School Rap Don "Sugarcane" Harris "A Little Soul Food" from Sugarcane Frank Zappa "Charva" from Lost Episodes The Persuasions "Electric Aunt Jemima" from Frankly A Capella The Pazant Brothers "Greasy Greens" from Skunk Juice Dirty Funk from the Big Apple The Soul Seven "Southside Funk" from The Funky 16 Corners Nat Turner Rebellion "Laugh to Keep From Crying" from Laugh to Keep From Crying Tom Bee "Reservation of education" from XIT Silent Warrior Joy Harjo "Calling the Spirit Back" from I Pray for My Enemies Khu.eex "Residential School" 107th Street Stickball Team "Let Me Do My Thing" from Athens of the North The Rubaiyats "Omar Khyyam" Willie Hutch "Keep on Doin' What You Do" from Soul Portrait Mavis Staples "You Are Not Alone" from You Are Not Alone Bobbi Humphrey "Blacks and Blues" from Blacks and Blues Joan Armatrading "To Be Loved" from Consequences Arturo O'Farrill "En La Oscuridad" from Virtual Birdland TNT Band "Musica Del Alma" from Fania Latin Soul Essentials Joe Bataan "Young, Gifted, and Brown" from Joe Bataan Anthology Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M