This week is the most ambitious BoL ever: we feature a classic from Pharoah Sanders, contemporary music from Dutch vocalist Tirjntje Oosterhuis, and an extensive “Amazing Grace” special that features Ernestine, Dirty Dozen Brass, Mica Paris, Walela, Klazz Brothers & Edson Cordeiro, World Saxophone Quartet, Soweto Gospel Choir, Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Blind Boys of Alabama, Jesse Fuller, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan, Aaron Neville, Aretha Franklin, BeBe Winans, Wycliffe Gordon, and Cassandra Wilson. Happy New Year!