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SOUNDS OF FREEDOM: FONTELLA BASS AND FREDDIE HUBBARD

In celebration of Black Music Month and Juneteenth, we honor the struggle for equality with the sounds of freedom. Sixties soul queen Fontella Bass used her gospel background and voice to make freedom statements of her own, such as her biggest hit “Rescue Me.” Then, late jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard talks free form music and freedom of expression. Plus music from John Coltrane, Leyla McCalla, the Staple Singers and more.

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: A Change is Gonna Come King Curtis
    The Best of King Curtis, Capitol
  • Freedom Train James Carr
    The Essential James Carr, Razor & Tie
  • Change It Kathleen Cleaver
    Black Power: Music of a Revolution, Shout! Factory
  • Freedom Train Honeyboy Edwards, Floyd Jones, Kansas City Red, Sunnyland Slim & Big Walter Horton
    Old Friends, Earwig
  • Gospel Train Wright Brothers Gospel Singers
    Negro Spirituals and Gospel Songs, Blues Encore
  • Song of the Underground Railroad The John Coltrane Quartet
    The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions, Impulse
  • Instrumental: Lift Every Voice and Sing Reginald R. Robinson
    Euphonic Sounds, Delmark
  • Why? (Am I Treated So Bad) The Staple Singers
    The Gospel Sound, Columbia/Legacy
  • Address To Civil Rights Marches in Washinton D.C. Martin Luther King
    Great Speeches of the 20th Century, Rhino
  • I'm Free At Last Southern Sons
    Negro Spirituals and Gospel Songs Vol.2, Blues Encore
  • Get Your Rights, Jack CORE Freedom Singers
    Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966, Folkways
  • SEGMENT: Fontella Bass

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  • Instrumental: Redemption Song Monty Alexander w/ Special Guest Ernest Ranglin
    Rocksteady, Telarc
  • Cole, Cooke & Redding Wilson Pickett
    A Man and a Half, Rhino
  • A Change in Gonna Come Otis Redding
    Otis Blue, ATCO
  • Blowin' in the Wind Sam Cooke
    At the Copa, ABKCO
  • The Colors That You Bring Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble
    Where the Future Unfolds, International Anthem Records
  • End Bed: The Preacher Horance Silver and the Jazz Messengers
    Horance Silver and the Jazz Messengers, Blue Note

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Backlash Freddie Hubbard
    Backlash, Koch
  • SEGMENT: Freddie Hubbard

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  • Instrumental: Down By the Riverside George Lewis
    Jazz at Preservation Hall -- The George Lewis Band of New Orleans, Atlantic
  • I Shall Not Be Moved Zion Harmonizers/Olympia Brass
    Best of New Orleans Gospel Vol. 2, Mardi Gras Records
  • The Capitalist Blues Leyla McCalla
    The Capitalist Blues, Self-release
  • Busted Ray Charles
    Ingredients in a Recipe For Soul/Have A Smile With Me, Rhino
  • Soul Power James Brown
    Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo, Vol. III, Polydor
  • Instrumental: The Prayer Oliver Sain
    St. Louis Breakdown: The Best of Oliver Sain, Excello
  • Black, Brown and White Big Bill Broonzy
    Defiance Blues, HOB
  • Peace In The Valley Red Foley
    Classic Country Music Volume II, Smithsonian
  • Peace In The Valley The Gate City Singers
    Testify! The Gospel Box, Rhino
  • Take My Hand Precious Lord Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe, MGM
  • Just a Closer Walk with Thee Mahalia Jackson
    Sings the Best Loved Hymns on Dr. MLK, Jr., Columbia
  • End Bed: Blues Walk Lou Donaldson
    Blues Walk, Blue Note

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