We'll pay tribute to the late Walter Becker, hear a couple of tunes from sometime Steely Dan drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, and hear Duke Ellington's "concerto grosso for jazz band and orchestra:" Harlem.
UpFront Soul #2017.34 Playlist Hour 1
Joan Armatrading / Back to the Night / Back to the Night / A&M Steely Dan / Home at Last / Aja / ABC Curtis Mayfield / Think / Superfly / Curtom Bernard Purdie / If You Never Cried / Soul Drums / Don "Sugarcane" Harris / Tears are Made of Dreams / Sugarcane / Ahmad Jamal / M.A.S.H. Theme / M*A*S*H (Soundtrack) / Legacy/Columbia Rasputin's Stash / Dark Moon / Hidden Stash / Athens of the North Carla Thomas / I Like What You're Doing to Me / Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration / Stax Chico Hamilton / Conquistadors 2005 / Conquistadors 2005 / Rasheed Ali / I Confess / 1968 Love Power / Digital Rain Factory Junior Byron / Trying to Hold On / Trying to Hold On / Cultures of Soul Butcher Brown / Bedroom Time / GrownFolk / RAMP / The Old One Two / Gilles Peterson Digs America 2 - Searching At The End Of An Era / Herbie Hancock / The Eye of the Hurricane / Maiden Voyage / Blue Note Hour 2 Al Green / Get Back Baby / Tired of Being Alone / Ann Peebles / Until You Came Into My Life / I Can't Stand The Rain / Fat Possum The Grace Gospel Singers / Higher / Screaming Gospel Holy Rollers Vol 2 / Maxine Brown / Sunny / Out of Sight / Sony Japan Jimmy McGriff / Stump Juice / Jimmy McGriff - Pisces / Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Nobody's Baby / 100 Days, 100 Nights / Daptone/VME Cassandra Wilson / You Go To My Head / Coming Forth by Day / Legacy Recordings Cornell Dupree / Shake It Well / Saturday Night Fever (Digitally Remastered) / Joan Armatrading / Opportunity / Show Some Emotion / Leon Bridges / Flowers / Coming Home / Columbia Bernard "Pretty" Purdie / Soul Clappin' / Soul Drums / Gary U.S. Bonds / Funky Lies / Certified Soul (Digitally Remastered) / Duke Ellington / Harlem / The Great London Concerts / Jazz Heritage Bob James / Night Crawler / Heads / CBS Sam Cooke / Havin' a Party / Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 / RCA