Artist - Tune - Album
Harlem River Drive - Idle Hands - Harlem River Drive
Sonny Fortune - The Afro-Americans - Serengeti Minstrel
David Murray - Village Urbana - Fo Deuk Revue
Joan Armatrading - Down To Zero - Joan Armatrading
Ahmad Jamal - Rossiter Road - Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1985
The Bad Plus - Seven Minute Mind - Made Possible
Griot Galaxy - XY Moch - Kins
Sy Smith - Sometimes A Rose Will Grow In Concrete
- Sometimes A Rose Will Grow In Concrete
Wayne Shorter - Diana - Native Dancer
Wayne Shorter - From the Lonely Afternoon - Native Dancer
Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Aretha’s Greatest Hits
Charlie Haden & Quartet West - Live Your Dreams - In Angel City
Robert Glasper - Consequences Of Jealousy - Black Radio
Dinah Washington - What A Diff’rence A Day Made
- What A Diff’rence A Day Makes!
Ramsey Lewis - Collage - Upendo Ni Pamoja
Michael Kaeshammer - Lands End Parade - The Pianist
Anita O’Day - The Moon Looks Down And Laughs - Travelin’ Light
Phronesis, Julian Argüelles - Herne Hill - The Behemoth
Bobby McFerrin featuring Esperanza Spalding - Glory - Spirityouall

The ode to musical styles past and present that introduces Jazz Gumbo is “Music Evolution” by Branford Marsalis and Buckshot LeFonque.

Playlists for all past Sets of Jazz Gumbo will be found at jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca


A glorious Set of music! I can’t help myself. I feel that way about almost every Set, though I did admit to feeling that the last one was kind of a weird mishmash. This Set holds together much better. It flows better. And Aretha’s great cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic soars right in the middle of it.

We’ve lost Aretha. And the last weeks have been full of tributes and memorials to her. My only small addition to the chorus of appreciation and love is to surround her transcendent music with more of the same. And I think this Set manages that. I’ll only draw attention to the two numbers that precede and follow Aretha, The offerings from Wayne Shorter and Charlie Haden. I won’t say any more than that. I’ll just leave it to you to enjoy.

Love!
Kirby