This week’s Fresh Friday washes it all away, cleansed by the restorative soul of Bill Evans, The Jones Girls, The Isley Brothers, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Lou Donaldson, Marvin Gaye, De La Soul, and Aretha Franklin.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a jolt of high-wattage soul, electrified by The Staples Jr. Singers, The Lijadu Sisters, Black Star, Herbie Hancock, Curtis Mayfield, Kuku Sebsibe, Marvin Gaye, and Sly Stone.

It’s Fresh Friday and the livin’ is easy. This week’s mix is like aloe on a crispy day, soothed by the cooling soul of The Twinkle Brothers, Bu Pleasant, Q-Tip, RAMP, Rasa, Chick Corea, Roberta Flack, and Meluken Melesse.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a collaboration 12 years in the making, inspired by the reflective soul of The Royal Jesters, A Tribe Called Quest, Roberta Flack, Patrice Rushen, Curtis Mayfield, Can, Jackie Mittoo, and Digital Underground.

This week’s Fresh Friday doubles down on the good times, reflected by the soulful funk of Grace Jones, Grandmaster Flash, Ahmad Jamal, Ronnie Laws, Parliament, The Staples Singers, and Mos Def.

This week’s Fresh Friday towers boldly, propped up by the steady soul of George & Gwen McCrae, Nina Simone, Jimmy Smith, Kimono Kasai, Roy Ayers, Gil Scot-Heron, and Swamp Dogg.

This week’s Fresh Friday is bursting with harmony, ignited by the explosive soul of Mal Waldron, Lorez Alexandria, Valerie Simpson, David Axelrod, Phillis Dillon, Mulatu Astatke, Gwen McCrae, Bobby Hutcherson, and Ben Sidron.

This week’s Fresh Friday looks to the stars, set adrift by the enlightening soul of The Modern Jazz Quartet, Walt Barr, Charles Stepney, Herbie Hancock, Esther Philips, Marcos Valle, Wings, and Michael Jackson.

Let this week’s Fresh Friday rock you into a golden slumber, soothed by the gentle soul of The Zombies, Leroy Hutson, Kimiko Kasai, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Alèmayèhu Eshèté, Edwin Starr, Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, and Lowbites.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a balance of certainty and doubt, obscured by the weighty jazz of Letta Mbulu, David Axelrod, Doug & Jean Carn, Roy Ayers, Bill Evans, Hugh Masekela, and J.J. Johnson.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a mess of R&B and funk, overwhelmed by the soulful sounds of The Jones Girls, Little Sister, BLO, Black Children Sledge Funk Group, The Blackbyrds, Bobbi Humphrey, Les McCann, and The Twinkle Brothers.

This week’s Fresh Friday says goodbye to 2022, carried by the gusting soul of Wee, Yesterday’s New Quintet, The Nu’Rons, Black Star, Ahmad Jamal, Tewolde Redda, and Gil Scott-Heron with Makaya McCraven.

This week’s Fresh Friday hangs at the precipice, warmed by the soulful bouillabaisse of Aretha Franklin, Afrique, Willam Onyeabor, Bobby Timmons, Patrice Rushen, Arthur Conley, Fred & the New J.B.’s, and Garaldo Pino & the Heart Beats.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a soulful negotiation, pushed and pulled by the funky fresh sounds of Gal Costa, Ramsey Lewis, Barbara & Ernie, William DeVaughn, Freddie Hubbard, Seu Jorge, and The Jimmy Castor Bunch.

This week’s Fresh Friday holds its head high, lifted by the esteemed soul of Sam Cooke, Wings, Patrice Rushen, Bobby Hutcherson, The Lijadu Sisters, Dilla x The Beach Boys, and Ndikho Xaba.

This week’s Fresh Friday rises above, reflected by the soulful glints of Lonnie Liston Smith, Kimiko Kasai, Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd, The Meters, Deniece Williams, and Herp Albert.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a ray of sunshine through the early spring clouds, thawed by the warm sounds of Joe Eboh, The Apostles, Cymande, ESG, Love Apple, Hailu Mergia & The Walias, and Jean Paul ‘El Troglodita'.

This week’s Fresh Friday will wash it all away, warmed by the cleansing soul of Bill Evans, Gil Scott-Heron, Anthony Williams, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Sam Cooke, Bettye Swann, and A Tribe Called Quest.

This week’s Fresh Friday will salve your soul, sutured by the healing sounds of Wings, Kimiko Kasai, Roy Ayers, Ronnie Foster, Bobbi Humphrey, Deodato, Sweet Talks, and David Axelrod.

This week’s Fresh Thursday (?) is a soulful digestif to help wash down another challenging year, ripened by the sweet and complex sounds of Erasmo Carlos, Oy Onyioha, Los Disco Duro, The Jungle Brothers, Sweet Talks, Minnie Riperton, Pretty Purdie & the Playboys, and Charles Wright.

After ten years of Freshness, this week drops a collection of favorites from years’ past, with soul vibrations provided by Roy Ayers’ Ubiquity, Kansas City Express, Bohannon, Kool & the Gang, Art Blakey, El Chicano, Junior Parker, and the Impressions. (Cover featuring “Rescue” by Dawn Bassett)

This week’s Fresh Friday ventures to disrupt the monotony, spun round by the momentous soul of The Village Callers, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The Meters, The Esbee Family, Christy Essien, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Mayfield, and the Lijadu Sisters.

This week’s Fresh Friday honors music and musicians across Africa, pulsed by the soulful heartbeat of Mulatu Astatke (with the Heliocentrics), William Onyeabor, Hailu Mergia, Fela Kuti, The Dur-Dur Band, Alemayehu Eshete, Dollar Brand & Johnny Dyani, and Hugh Masekela (with Hedzolah Sounds).

This week’s Fresh Friday haunts like a lingering dream, featuring the misunderstood magic of Shel Silverstein, Bobby Charles, Kathleen Emery, Chick Corea, Jim Sullivan, McDonald & Giles, Love Apple, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, The Free Design, Brenton Wood, and Donovan.

This Week’s Fresh Friday turns a narrative page, propelled forward by the reflective soul of Curtis Mayfield, The Sylvers, The Real ShooBeeDoo, Don Thompson, Lalomie Washburn, 79.5, Larry Young, and Digital Underground.

This week’s Fresh Friday anticipates the light as we exit the tunnel, warmed by the soulful glow of Bill Evans, Donald Byrd, Gene Russell, Abbey Lincoln, Joe Henderson, Mary Lou Williams, Groove Holmes, and Nina Simone.

This week’s Fresh Friday sprouts beauty through the muck, watered by the delicate grooves of Nikki Giovanni, Erasmo Carlos, Michael Franks, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Blossom Dearie, David Axelrod, Don Cherry, Cymande, and Smokey Robinson.

Soak in this week’s Fresh Friday, awash with the cleansing soul of Azymuth, Eddie Kendrick, The Joneses, The Young-Holt Unlimited, Milt Jackson, Mind & Matter, Melvin Sparks, and the Chi-Lites.

This week’s Fresh Friday is fresh out, yet reassured by the illuminating glow of Bill Evans, Labi Siffre, The Chi-Lites, Art Farmer, Eddie Harris, Gwen McCrae, Pete Jolly, and The Wild Magnolias.

This week’s Fresh Friday frightens away the chaos, possessed by the fiery soul of The Jungle Brothers, Les McCann, Stevie Wonder, Ahmad Jamal, Gil Scott-Heron, EPMD, Hugh Masekela, The Rotary Connection, and De La Soul.

This week’s Fresh Friday offers a safe place to hole up until (if?) the chaos subsides, insulated by the protective grooves of Astrud Gilberto, Dorothy Ashby, Grant Green, Ron Carter, Oliver Nelson, Gene Russell, Bobby Timmons, and Odyssey.

Savor the last drops of summer with a fresh soul-ade that is sure to sate your thirst, sweetened by the syrupy funk of Lonnie Liston Smith, The Voices of East Harlem, Ramsey Lewis, Mind & Matter, The Fatback Band, Walter Lewis & the Blue Stars, Patrice Rushen, and Roy Ayers Ubiquity.

Step in rhythm to this week’s Fresh Friday, synchronized by the unifying funk of Fred Wesley and the J.B.’s, Blue Mitchell, Betty Wright, Leroy Hutson, The Counts, Ann Peebles, Groove Holmes, and the Blackbyrds.

Slather on some SPF 72 for this week’s sunshine-filled Fresh Friday, warmed by the Latin and Brazilian soul of The Chakachas, Cal Tjader, Astrud Gilberto & Stanley Turrentine, Azymuth, Elis & Tom, Marcos Valle, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Gilberto Gil.

We stand and support Black Lives. We use our privilege and our voices and our power to dismantle a racist system designed to terrorize and marginalize Black people and we do it loudly and without compromise.

In anticipation of Pride month, this Fresh Friday celebrates everyone who has ever felt unsafe to share their true selves. Pride cannot be contained or quarantined. It can be amplified by the outside world, but lives within you. It is an enduring expression of honesty, authenticity, and love.

Let this week’s Fresh Friday lift you above the moonlit skies, set adrift by the haunting sounds of Azymuth, Bill Withers, George Benson, Bohannon, Wings, The Heptones, Bill Evans & Jim Hall, and the Beastie Boys.

This week’s Fresh Friday offers appropriately distanced community at a time of isolation, unified by the soulful joy of Grover Monster, Manu Dibango, Kellee Patterson, Idris Muhammad, The Blackbyrds, Groove Holmes, The Pointer Sisters, Donald Byrd, and Hugh Masekela.

This week’s mix is just what the doctor ordered: a fresh Spring vaccine, restored by the inoculating soul of Gil Scott-Heron, The Jan Hammer Group, Marcos Valle, The Redd Holt Unlimited, Don Thompson, Lalomie Washburn, The New Birth, and Pete Jolly!

This week’s rain-soaked mix delivers the freshest of Fridays, nourished by the restorative soul of Rudy Ray Moore, The Kinks, Johnny Hammond, Nino Ferrer & Radiah, Otis Redding, Bill Evans, Lonnie Liston Smith, and Sly & The Family Stone! 

This week’s Fresh Friday shuffles and struts its way toward 2020, powered by the electrifying soul of Marlena Shaw, Jeanette “Lady” Day, Les McCann, Rose Royce, Marvin Gaye, Sly & The Family Stone, and Curtis Mayfield!

The week’s Fresh Friday finds balance amongst chaos, steadied by the high flying soul of The Valentinos, Blue Mitchell, Cymande, Lee Morgan, The Dramatics, Larry Young, The Miracles, and Gilberto Gil!

This week’s Fresh Friday was curated entirely by my friend and co-worker, Bojana Ostojic, who is moving on from Microsoft after 20+ years, celebrated by the soulful tones of Goran Bregovic, Supertramp, Otis Redding, The Doors, Natalie Merchant, Talking Heads, The Revivalists, Lahasa, and Nina Simone.

This week’s Fresh Friday gets things done like they’ve never been done, held together by the unified soul of EPMD, Betty Davis, Allen Toussaint, John Lennon, Barbara & Ernie, Nina Simone, James Brown, and Delroy Wilson.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a beautiful mess of rhythm, tangled by the soulful sounds of Lorez Alexandria, Luis Bonfá, Jimmy Smith, Pete Jolly, Cal Tjader, The Royal Jesters, The Har-You Percussion Group, and Blossom Dearie.

Set adrift on memory bliss with this week’s Fresh Friday, freed by the buoyant soul of Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bernard Wright, Eugene Record, The Jones Sisters, Prince, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, John Holt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Deodato.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a continuous pulse of jazz-infused empowerment, fueled by the nonstop rhythms of The Young-Holt Unlimited, Alan Hull, Reuben Wilson, Herbie Hancock, Dr. John, Nina Simone, Jim Sullivan, and Shirley Scott.

This week’s Fresh Friday illuminates the path of your inner world, guided by the stirring sounds of The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Whatnauts, Barbara & Ernie, Delroy Wilson, Charlie Earland, Tommy James & The Shondells, The Heptones, and Bob Dylan.

Bask in the earthy glow of this week’s Fresh Friday, restored by the organic sounds of Marcos Valle, Paul Simon, Ramsey Lewis, Ronnie Foster, Betty Wright, Harry Belafonte, The Free Design, and Wings…Mother Nature!

Surrender yourself to this week’s Fresh Friday, which features a cover by the amazing Ryan Hastings and the liberating tones of OMD, Queen, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Kinks, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Melanie, Bobby Taylor, and Brian Eno.

This week’s Fresh Friday welcomes the relief of spring, thawed by the sincere radiance of The Supremes, Prince, EPMD, Roy Ayers, The Swingle Singers, Bill Evans, Deniece Williams, Eddie Kendricks, and De La Soul.

This week’s Fresh Friday welcomes guest deejay, Miles (who curated the album selection, track-list, title, and cover), and sows the seeds of pre-spring funk, nourished by Jimi Hendrix, Lee Morgan, Prince, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and James Brown!

Fall into this week’s Fresh Friday, steadied by the foundational soul of Bernice Reagon, Roy Ayers, Eddie Harris, Blossom Dearie, Bill Evans & Jim Hall, Rusty Bryant, and The Singers Unlimited.

This week’s Fresh Friday concludes our ascension into 2019, elevated by the ambitious funk of Cymande, The Moments, Ahmad Jamal, The Four Mints, James Brown, William Bell, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band, and Gil Scott-Heron!

This week’s Fresh Friday pushes the borderline, replenished by the fulfilling funk of Aram Khachaturian, Dizzy Gillespie & Lalo Schifrin, Madonna, Ramsey Lewis, Michael Jackson, George Benson, and Blossom Dearie!

This week’s Fresh Friday longs for the sound of a distant train, echoed by the strange sounding soul of Sam Cooke, Cal Tjader, Kraftwerk, Serge Gainsbourg, Leon Spencer, The Free Design, Volta Jazz, Marie Laforêt, and Chet Baker.

Brothers and sisters, this week’s Fresh Friday (on a Tuesday) doesn’t know what the world is coming to, braved by the credible funk of Eddie Kendricks, Maya Angelou, Fela Kuti, Prince, Ann Peebles, Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra, & Tina Turner.

Enjoy every minute, moment, and second of this week's Fresh Friday, blessed by the ascendant soul of Gene Harris & The Three Sounds, Erik B & Rakim, Wayne Shorter, Girma Bèyènè, The Jungle Brothers, Ronnie Foster, Malo, and Aretha Franklin.

This week's Fresh Friday ensures that everything will turn out alright, soothed by the soulful swagger of The Free Design, Van Dyke Parks, Eddie Harris, The Turtles, Nina Simone, Lyn Collins, Gil Evans, Julius Brockington, and the Beach Boys.

This week's Fresh Friday is lost for words and features Donny Hathaway, Alice Coltrane, Trevor Dandy, The Blues Project, Gil Scott-Heron, Shuggie Otis, Deodato, and Miss Abrams & The Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class.

This week's Fresh Friday creates without fear, united by the curious funk of Nikki Giovanni, The Sisters Love, The Fatback Band, William DeVaughn, Curtis Mayfield, The Stylistics, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Baby Huey, Bohannon, and the Moments.

Greet the approaching summer breeze with an exposed midriff of soul, made vulnerable by the joyful sounds of Cymande, Ramsey Lewis, Ricardo Marrero & the Group, Syreeta, Johnson Hawkins Tatum & Durr, Michael Jackson, The Beastles, Eric B & Rakim, and Sly & the Family Stone! 

Rejoice in the salvation of this week's Fresh Friday, warmed by the radiant soul of George Benson, Shuggie Otis, Malo, Hugh Masekela, Charles Wright, Jimmy McGriff, Hopeton Lewis, and Otis Redding! 

As we prepare for the beginning of the end, this week's Fresh Friday turns up the heat, coerced by the funky reverb of Pigmeat Markham, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Dr. John, Charles Mingus, Arthur Verocai, Linda Lewis, Boogie Down Productions, and James & Bobby Purify!

This week's Fresh Friday lights the runway as we join together to pilot 2018 toward more peaceful skies, lifted by the soulful flow of Gene Harris, Asha Puthli, The Soul Searchers, Freddie Hubbard, Heatwave, The Impressions, and MFSB!

As we near the season finale of "Shitshow 2017," cleanse in the self-reflective waters of Sam Cooke, The Pretty Things, John Phillips, Manu Dibango, Bobby Hutcherson, Marlena Shaw, Ronnie Foster, and Nina Simone. 

Sprawl in the late season sunshine that is this week's Fresh Friday, cozied by the soulful radiance of Jon Lucien, Ann Peebles, Hailu Mergia, The Blackbyrds, Marie Laforêt, Eddie Harris, Brother to Brother, and Merry Clayton!

This week's Fresh Friday is a slow burn of soulful inner vision, simmered by the sounds of Francois Hardy, Esther Phillips, Bill Withers, James Brown, Andrew Hill, Serge Gainsbourg, Sarah Vaughan, Mavis Staples, and The New Birth.

Ah, the devil is loose, the devil is loose, go and get him...armed with the powerful sounds of Asha Puthli, Ike Turner, Coke Escovado, Eddie Palmieri, Doug & Jean Carn, Al Green, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and RAMP.

This week's Fresh Friday enlists LOVE to irradiate the darkness as we embark upon the Upside Down, ushered by Timmy Thomas, The Chi-Lites, Smokey Robinson, Odyssey, The Joneses, The Stylistics, and The Jackson Five with Dimitri from Paris.

This week's Fresh Friday offers a restorative amuse-bouche to cleanse the stark and acidic palate that was two thousand sixteen, featuring the ambrosial tones of Public Enemy, Rufus Thomas, Oliver Nelson, Freddie Hubbard, Eric B. & Rakim, the J.B.'s, The Beach Boys with J Dilla, Miles Davis, and Sly & the Family Stone!

This week's Fresh Friday is a life raft atop a torrent of "the fuck?," kept afloat by the soulful prowess of Wee, The Blackbyrds, Curtis Mayfield, Diana Ross, Goody Goody, Donald Byrd, Ricardo Marrero & The Group, and Madonna.

This week's Fresh Friday is a lit match in the dark, too weak to brighten a path forward, but enough to illuminate those around us, a nod that we're in this together. Ignited by the sparks of Jimi Hendrix, Roberta Flack, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, Syreeta, The Stylistics, Ann Peebles, Merry Clayton, and Bernice Reagon.

When drowning in a sea of sorrow, sad songs aren't the undertow...they give the ability to breath underwater.

This week's Fresh Friday marauds for your ears, plundered by the vibes of Nikki Giovanni, Billy Cobham, A Tribe Called Quest, Booker T & The M.G.'s, Ahmad Jamal, The Beastie Boys, Sly Stone, Herbie Hancock, and The Jimmy Castor Bunch!

Sun showers and silver linings highlight this week's Fresh Friday, lifted up by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Bobby Caldwell, Idris Muhammad, The Intruders, Dexter Wansel, Tony Aiken & Future 2000, and Betty Everett!

Strap in and make ready for an interstellar love odyssey, fueled by the stirring sounds of Smokey Robinson, The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Aretha Franklin, Sam & Dave, Gal Costa, George McCrae, Bettye Swann, Nina Simone, and The Persuasions!

This week's Fresh Friday begets a soulful revolution, ignited by the fiery rhythms of The Joneses, Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces, Denise Lasalle, Fish & Chips, Joe Simon, Elvis, The Dynamics, Vanilla, Betty Davis, and the Street Bangerz...ooh yeah oh yeah oh yeah!

Soothe the black-eyed blues with this week's Fresh Friday, medicated by the soulful tomes of Donovan, Esther Phillips, Jim Sullivan, The Monkees, Sly Stone, Hall & Oates, Gato Barbieri, and Curtis Mayfield!

Receive 2016 with this euphonic decree, led by the soulful stirrings of Labi Saffre, John Lennon, Astrud Gilberto, The Monkees, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Monk Montgomery, Junior Parker & Jimmy McGriff, and Simon & Garfunkel...Shine on!

Close your eyes and surrender to this week's Fresh Friday, numbed by the solitary soul of Sylvia Telles, Cal Tjader, Groove Holmes, Bola Sete, El Chicano, Nara Leão, and Astronauts A Mercurio!

Side A of this week's Fresh Friday is a rhythm monolith, machined by the genius of Gil Scott-Heron, Donald Byrd, Dexter Wansel, George Kranz, Hamilton Bohannon, Bob James, The Loving Sisters, and ESG. My god...it's full of stars!

Explore the outer reaches of cosmic love, fueled by the soulful verve of The Chi-Lites, UPP, The Dynamics, Ramsey Lewis, Leroy Hutson, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Gwen McRae, and Syreeta.

This week's Fresh Friday unwinds poolside with a fruity daiquiri and a sugar-sweet disposition, sunbathed by Fatback Band, Incredible Bongo Band, James Brown, The Dramatics, Rotary Connection, Easy Star All-Stars, Maceo & All the Kings Men, and Cold Blood...C'mon with the C'MON!

This week's Fresh Friday mix, featuring db, is a soothing, soulful salve, applied by the genius of Michael Franks, Coke Escovedo, Deodato, Azymuth, Jean Carn, Clifton Dyson, Kellee Patterson, The Soul Children, and Ike Turner...Use as directed.

As the sweet beat of summer raps softly, let your happiness outshine the morning sun and behold the soulful glory of Shuggie Otis, Stevie Wonder, Hugh Masekela & Hedzolah Soundz, Betty Everett, Kermit the Frog, Manu Dibango, Otis Redding, and Vi Redd!

Five months ago, our lives changed forever as we were united with our son, Miles Zekariyas. Today, his first birthday is soulfully celebrated by the The Ponderosa Twins Plus One, Diana Ross & The Supremes, De La Soul, Helen Reddy, Al Jarreau, Nat Adderley, The Jackson Five, and Mulatu Astatke!

Let the soulful poetry of this week’s Fresh Friday inspire the succulent change in which we all aspire to ripen… with The Rolling Stones, Astrud Gilberto, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, The Incredible Bongo Band, Elis & Tom, Cymande, Sam Spence, Ricardo Marerro & The Group, and The Four Small Faces!

2014 wouldn’t have that new car smell without the sparkle-fresh soul of Johnnie Taylor, Roy Ayer’s Ubiquity, The Crusaders, Junior Parker & Jimmy McGriff, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, The Loving Sisters, and Al Green. Because it ain’t whatcha got, it’s what you do with whatcha got that makes it groovy, baby.

As time runs and passes, passes and runs…relax and flow downstream with this week’s Fresh Friday, held afloat by the introspective soul of Mary Hopkin, David Axelrod, The Last Poets, A Tribe Called Quest, Charles Wright, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Sarstedt, and Junior Parker.

It’s been a stretch since I’ve posted a new mix, and there couldn’t be a better occasion. Today, we travel across the planet to meet our boy. This is our soundtrack… powered by the soul of Labi Siffre, Mulatu Astatke, Manu Dibango, Letta Mbulu, and Aretha Franklin, among others.

Fresh Friday was so Fresh, it has spilled over into Monday, positive and proud, with different strokes delivered by the likes of Bob Dylan, the Merry-Go-Rounds, Ghostface Killah, The Commodores, Gil Scott-Heron, and a few deep groove surprises…co-mixed by db!

It’s time to count it off, as Fresh Friday blasts off this week with purpose, fueled by the premium-unleaded-soul of Mantronix, Eugene Record, Buddy Rich, Bob James with Patti Austin, Labi Siffre, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, and Willie Bobo & the Bo-Gents!

Help ring in the fresh New Year with this funk-injected mix, scientifically calibrated to 13… abetted by the super-soul of The Galactic Force Band, Gloria Jones, Minnie Riperton, The Blackbyrds, David T. Walker, Grant Green, and Reebop!

This week’s Fresh Friday is easier than two Sunday Mornings, assuaged by the melancholy genius of Nat King Cole, Jimmy Smith, Bob Dorough, Sonny Rollins, Nat Adderley, Billie Holliday, and Mulatu Astatke.