Ray Charles all the way live starts us off really, really good. And then we chill out with Sergio Mendes. And cap it all off with a bliss out behind 13 versions of Coltrane’s "Naima" featuring Mark de Clive-Lowe & Bembe Segue, Lonnie Smith, Art Farmer, Arthur Blythe, Norman Connors, Celine Rudolph, Kindred Spirits Ensemble, 4hero, Mark Murphy, McCoy Tyner, David Murray, Hal Galper, and John Coltrane.

Junior "Driving Wheel" Parker, the first of the great Southern Soul singers leads off the week, we follow with UK/Gambia kora player/vocalist/composer Sona Jobarteh, and we conclude with 12 versions of J. J. Johnson’s "Lament" featuring Hazel Scott, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Alex Harding, Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band, Jessica Williams, Milt Jackson with J. J. Johnson & Ray Brown, Poncho Sanchez, Ron Kischuk, Miles Davis, Kenny Burrell, Mark Murphy, and Tete Montoliu.