New Orleans R&B legend Lloyd Price starts us off, and we follow with Ivory Coast chanteuse Dobet Gnahoré, and we close with 15 songs of Spring featuring Hugh Masekela, Dori Caymmi, Dianne Reeves, Billy Eckstine, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Lorez Alexandria, Mimi Fox, Betty Carter, Freddy Cole, Kenny Barron & Joe Locke, Sandra Booker, Vahag Petian & Clarence Johnson III, Jackie and Roy, Freddie Hubbard, and Abbey Lincoln. Yeah, Spring is here!

Classic work from Ahmad Jamal, a deep retrospective on Bobby McFerrin, and introspective covers from Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Andre Mehmari—a deep week of meditative music.

Third World—the longest running reggae band ever—kicks off the week and we follow with Build An Ark, an exciting jazz ensemble out of Los Angeles. We close with 10 versions of "Moment’s Notice" featuring composer John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Slide Hampton, John Blake, Suturo O’Farrill, Dexter Gordon, The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra, Billy Hart, McCoy Tyner, and SFJazz Collective.

This week start off catching early John Coltrane and then safari to Kenya to check out Just A Band and close out enjoying the vocalese of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.

The Cape Verde connection is featured this week with classic jazz from Horace Silver and a hybrid from Carmen Souza, plus 15 versions of "Save Your Love For Me" featuring Art Farmer/Benny Golson with Nancy Wilson, Al Jarreau, David Fathead Newman, New York Voices, Khalil El Zabar, Jack McDuff, Bobby Bland, Charles Brown, Johnny Lytle, Randy Crawford & Joe Sample, Johnny Griffin & Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Jose James, Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley, Hank Crawford and Sunny Sumter.