Music has always carried the stories of people searching for freedom, dignity and belonging.

This week on A Love Supreme, we follow that current from “Waters of Babylon” and Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” to the liberating voices of Brittany Howard, Ekep Nkwelle, Cassandra Wilson and Cécile McLorin Salvant. Along the way, music from Thelonious Monk, Charles Lloyd, Ambrose Akinmusire, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and others reminds us that jazz and the blues are more than art forms—they are living records of struggle, survival, imagination and joy.

Join me Monday from noon to 3 p.m. on WPKN for three hours of music that dreams beyond the world as it is—and toward the world as it could be.

Listen at 89.5 FM or stream at WPKN.org.

#ALoveSupreme #WPKN #Jazz #SocialJustice #BlackMusic #CommunityRadio #MusicForChange

Music has always carried the stories of people searching for freedom, dignity and belonging.

This week on A Love Supreme, we follow that current from “Waters of Babylon” and Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” to the liberating voices of Brittany Howard, Ekep Nkwelle, Cassandra Wilson and Cécile McLorin Salvant. Along the way, music from Thelonious Monk, Charles Lloyd, Ambrose Akinmusire, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and others reminds us that jazz and the blues are more than art forms—they are living records of struggle, survival, imagination and joy.

Join me Monday from noon to 3 p.m. on WPKN for three hours of music that dreams beyond the world as it is—and toward the world as it could be.

Listen at 89.5 FM or stream at WPKN.org.

#ALoveSupreme #WPKN #Jazz #SocialJustice #BlackMusic #CommunityRadio #MusicForChange

Music has always carried the stories of people searching for freedom, dignity and belonging.

This week on A Love Supreme, we follow that current from “Waters of Babylon” and Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” to the liberating voices of Brittany Howard, Ekep Nkwelle, Cassandra Wilson and Cécile McLorin Salvant. Along the way, music from Thelonious Monk, Charles Lloyd, Ambrose Akinmusire, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and others reminds us that jazz and the blues are more than art forms—they are living records of struggle, survival, imagination and joy.

Join me Monday from noon to 3 p.m. on WPKN for three hours of music that dreams beyond the world as it is—and toward the world as it could be.

Listen at 89.5 FM or stream at WPKN.org.

#ALoveSupreme #WPKN #Jazz #SocialJustice #BlackMusic #CommunityRadio #MusicForChange

This week, we travel through work, memory, faith, struggle and renewal.

Cannonball Adderley begins with the enduring pulse of “Work Song,” followed by Jim Harrison’s poetry and J.D. Allen’s stark “This World Is a Mean World.” Two interpretations of “Hi-Fly”—from Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart, and the incomparable Abbey Lincoln—lift us toward Dominique Fils-Aimé’s “Phoenix Rising” and Courtney Pine’s garden of possibility.

At the spiritual center are Joel Ross’s “Trinity,” Joe Lovano’s “Congregation” and Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown’s powerful interpretation of “Acknowledgement.” Along the way, we encounter monsters and memory, mothers and sacred names, and the endlessly inventive music of Thelonious Monk.

The final hour turns toward the American songbook in its broadest sense, with music associated with Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Webb and Neil Young—then moves into autonomy, power and time before settling into the quiet beauty of Bill Evans.

Featuring John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd, Anat Cohen, Kenny Wheeler, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Adam O’Farrill, Ezra Collective, Cassandra Wilson, Somi, Brandee Younger, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kamasi Washington and many more.

This week, we travel through work, memory, faith, struggle and renewal.

Cannonball Adderley begins with the enduring pulse of “Work Song,” followed by Jim Harrison’s poetry and J.D. Allen’s stark “This World Is a Mean World.” Two interpretations of “Hi-Fly”—from Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart, and the incomparable Abbey Lincoln—lift us toward Dominique Fils-Aimé’s “Phoenix Rising” and Courtney Pine’s garden of possibility.

At the spiritual center are Joel Ross’s “Trinity,” Joe Lovano’s “Congregation” and Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown’s powerful interpretation of “Acknowledgement.” Along the way, we encounter monsters and memory, mothers and sacred names, and the endlessly inventive music of Thelonious Monk.

The final hour turns toward the American songbook in its broadest sense, with music associated with Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Webb and Neil Young—then moves into autonomy, power and time before settling into the quiet beauty of Bill Evans.

Featuring John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd, Anat Cohen, Kenny Wheeler, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Adam O’Farrill, Ezra Collective, Cassandra Wilson, Somi, Brandee Younger, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kamasi Washington and many more.

This week, we travel through work, memory, faith, struggle and renewal.

Cannonball Adderley begins with the enduring pulse of “Work Song,” followed by Jim Harrison’s poetry and J.D. Allen’s stark “This World Is a Mean World.” Two interpretations of “Hi-Fly”—from Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart, and the incomparable Abbey Lincoln—lift us toward Dominique Fils-Aimé’s “Phoenix Rising” and Courtney Pine’s garden of possibility.

At the spiritual center are Joel Ross’s “Trinity,” Joe Lovano’s “Congregation” and Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown’s powerful interpretation of “Acknowledgement.” Along the way, we encounter monsters and memory, mothers and sacred names, and the endlessly inventive music of Thelonious Monk.

The final hour turns toward the American songbook in its broadest sense, with music associated with Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Webb and Neil Young—then moves into autonomy, power and time before settling into the quiet beauty of Bill Evans.

Featuring John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd, Anat Cohen, Kenny Wheeler, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Adam O’Farrill, Ezra Collective, Cassandra Wilson, Somi, Brandee Younger, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kamasi Washington and many more.

This edition travels through praise, freedom, faith and resistance—beginning with Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown’s interpretation of John Coltrane’s “Acknowledgement” and Shabaka’s “Dance in Praise.”

Along the way, we encounter Pat Metheny, Joe Lovano, James Brandon Lewis, Courtney Pine, Robert Glasper, Charles Lloyd, Charles Mingus and Bill Frisell. New music from Kiefer, Nduduzo Makhathini, corto.alto and Joel Ross carries us from memory and uncertainty toward possibility, grace and love.

Also featuring Yoko Miwa, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Gretchen Parlato, Chris Potter, Lucinda Williams, Rhiannon Giddens, Sinéad O’Connor and many more.

Three hours of music that is spiritual, rooted and improvised.

This edition travels through praise, freedom, faith and resistance—beginning with Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown’s interpretation of John Coltrane’s “Acknowledgement” and Shabaka’s “Dance in Praise.”

Along the way, we encounter Pat Metheny, Joe Lovano, James Brandon Lewis, Courtney Pine, Robert Glasper, Charles Lloyd, Charles Mingus and Bill Frisell. New music from Kiefer, Nduduzo Makhathini, corto.alto and Joel Ross carries us from memory and uncertainty toward possibility, grace and love.

Also featuring Yoko Miwa, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Gretchen Parlato, Chris Potter, Lucinda Williams, Rhiannon Giddens, Sinéad O’Connor and many more.

Three hours of music that is spiritual, rooted and improvised.