We'll check out a swingin' tune from soul jazz guitar great Melvin Sparks, hear Jazz Futures' tribute to Medgar Evers, and dig Rufus Harley's jazz bagpipe cover of a Pete Seeger tune.
UpFront Soul #2018.10 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" on A&M Melvin Sparks "If You Want My Love" from "If You Want My Love" on Rocafort Grant Green, Jr. "Selma March" from "Selma March" Flipside "Music Gets Me High" from "Music Gets Me High" on Athens of the North Rasheed Ali "A Badge and a Gun" from "A Badge and A Gun" on Digital Rain Factory Jazz Futures "Medgar Evers Blues" from "Live in Concert" Nina Simone "Old Jim Crow" from "Protest Anthology" on Andy Stroud Inc. Black Sugar "Funky Man" from "Black Sugar" on Munster The Headhunters "Daffy's Dance" from "Survival Of The Fittest" on Arista Afro Kelenkye Band "Jungle Funk" from "Jungle Funk" Don 'Sugarcane' Harris "Don't You Think I've Paid Enough" from "Sugarcane" Rufus Harley "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" from "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" Somi "Still Your Girl" from "The Lagos Music Salon" Hour 2 Al Green "One Woman" from "Back Up Train" The Abysinnian Baptist Choir "Sweet Jesus" from "Shakin' The Rafters: Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir Under The Direction of Professor Alex Bradford" Nina Simone "Everything Must Change" from "Baltimore" on CTI Original Five Blind Boys "My Robe Will Fit Me" from "Screaming Gospel Holy Rollers Vol.1" Nina Simone "Forget" from "Baltimore" on CTI Sam Cooke "Driftin' Blues" from "The Man Who Invented Soul" on RCA Femi Kuti "Dem bobo" from "Africa Shrine" Main Street "Slipped Disc" from "Get Down On It: Funky Soul Music" Orlando Julius "Efoye SD" from "Super Afro Soul" on Vampi Soul Joe Bataan "Under The Street Lamp" from "Joe Bataan Anthology" on KOCH RECORDS Jimmy McGriff "Dig On It" from "Killer Jazz Funk From Groove Merchant Vault - Return of Jazz Funk" Robbie Hill's Family Affair "I Just Want To Be (Like Myself)" from "Wheedle's Groove - Seattle's Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-75" Ella Fitzgerald "My Funny Valentine" from "Live '61" Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings "Get Up and Get Out" from "Give the People What They Want" on Daptone Recording Company The Soul Survivors "Expressway to Your Heart" from "Do You Feel It" Bob James "Night Crawler" from "Heads" on CBS Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963" on RCA