This week we start with classic Miles Davis, then move to a survey of work by hip-hop vocalist Vinia Mojica who is featured on a trillion songs you’ve heard forever and just didn’t know who was singing. Finally we do a round robin of investigations of Wayne Shorter’s composition "Footprints" featuring Miles Davis, Jazz Jamaica Allstars, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Soul Rebels, Lonnie Liston Smith, Caecilie Norby, Mimi Fox, Kenny Barron & Regina Carter, Geoff Keezer and the Wayne Shorter Quartet. Approximately three hours of brilliant music.

Happy Birthday, Malcolm! The minister always used to say: make it plain. So here comes Bill Withers and José James making it plain. Plus Meshell Ndegeocello, Creative Source, Curtis Salgado, Gladys Knight & The Pips and Shaun Escoffery trying to figure out who "he" is. Another beautiful week of wonderful songs.

Oh, what a week on BoL. The Other Woman Redux: Barbara Mason, Joan Armatrading, The Soul Children, Erykah Badu, Nina Simone, and Nancy Wilson. Then we head off to the motherland to listen to Souad Massi, Geoffrey Oryema,, Madosini, Khadja Nin, Boubacar Traore and Miriam Makeba. And finally we have a dozen versions of Coltrane’s classic "Naima" featuring Doug & Jean Carn, Dexter Gordon, Turtle Island String Quartet, SF Jazz Collective, Soul Bossa Trio, Oscar Castro-Neves, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Mimi Fox, Lonnie Liston Smith, John McLaughlin and John Coltrane with Pharoah Sanders. Like I said, what a week!

What we have here is, well, let’s just say we’re all over the place. Ann Peebles, Candi Staton, Me’Shell NdegeOcello, Nancy Wilson, Gladys Knight, Joan Armatrading, Aretha Franklin, Shirley Brown, Betty Carter and Nina Simone all weigh in mightily on the theme of the "other woman." Then we jet to Africa for some meditation with Madala Kunene & Max Lässer, Diely Moussa Kouyaté, Gigi, Bau and Salif Keita. We close out with jazz ballads from Cæcilie Norby. Whewww, what a week.