Remember Angela Bofill! (That’s an injunction, not a question.) Check out Colombia’s pride & joy: Sidestepper. Get hold of an hour long mixtape of Stevie Wonder covers featuring: Stephane Belmondo, Mary Mary, Vanessa Rubin, Stephanie Renee, Matt Lemmler, Nnenna Freelon, Sexto Sentido, Luther Vandross, Incognito, Keb’ Mo’, and Marion Brown. A week of music you won’t forget.

Something old: reggae legend Peter Tosh; something new: jazz phenom Esperanza Spalding; something borrowed, something blue: ten versions of "My Favorite Things," a song borrowed from Broadway that John Coltrane, Cyrus Chestnut with Anita Baker, Al Jarreau with Kathleen Battle, Turtle Island String Quartet, Anna Luna, Jean-Michel Pilc, Hannibal Marvin Peterson, Betty Carter, Johnny Hartman, and Pharoah Sanders with Dwight Tribble, all mightily blow the blues on. Give thanks and praises!

This week it’s Milton Nascimento part 2 with a little help from Trio Esperanca and Vania Bastos. And then we have new music from Al Green. We close out with a reggae throw down featuring Peter Tosh, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Toots & The Maytals and The Abyssinians. Don’t sleep on a soulful, western hemisphere extravaganza.

Heading south of the border down Brazil way for a three part Milton Nascimento week featuring classics from Milton Nascimento, plus a new tribute album from Belmondo with Milton, and 19 covers of Milton songs from Affonsinho, Ricardo Silveria & Luiz Avellar, Flora Purim, Equale, Celia Vaz & Group, IG Culture featuring Bembe Segue, Ithamara Koorax, Joe Claussell & Kerri Chandler, Sarah Vaughn, Leila Maria, Dianne Reeves, Vania Bastos, and Ivan Lins. Tudo bem!