We kick off with the quintessential bebop quintet (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus & Max Roach). Following them is UK wordsmith and performance poet Zena Edwards. We conclude with Sun Ra covering standards and jazz classics.

Soul music doesn’t get better than seventies Aretha Franklin, and we follow that goodness with emerging Cape Verdean chantuese Mayra Andrade, and close out with 24 versions of Duke’s great "Prelude To A Kiss" featuring Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Sarah Vaughan, McCoy Tyner, Nnenna Freelon, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Sir Roland Hanna, Carmen McRae, Ellis Marsalis, Nancy Wilson, Brad Mehldau, Singers Unlimited, Roy Haynes Trio, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, Tito Puente, Mel Brown Quartet, Roberta Flack, Miki Hayama, Andy Bey, and Tommy Smith.

We kick the week into action with New Orleans’ funkiest, The Meters, and then chill and dance to the grooves of Les Nubians, and close out with thirteen takes on "Killing Me Softly With His Song" featuring Roberta Flack, Jimmy Smith, Amii Stewart, Blue Mitchell, Omara Portuondo, The Fugees, Kermit Ruffins, Lauryn Hill, Studio Allstars, Roland Hanna, Inspiration, Luther Vandross, and Voices Unlimited.

We start the new year off with classic material from The Pointer Sisters, followed by romantic electronic dance music from Vikter Duplaix, and concluding with 19 versions of "Pata Pata," a song made famous by Miriam Makeba.