We open with a tribute to Teddy Pendergrass and follow with two selections from Hope for Haiti Now featuring Emeline Michel and Wyclef Jean. We close with "Equinox" by John Coltrane, Jose James, Bobby Hutherson, Gerald Wilson, Carlos Valdez, Jessica Williams, Hubert Laws, Melissa Walker, OAM Trio, Rhonda Scott, Tito Puente and Pharoah Sanders.

This week we honor the great jazz vocalist Leon Thomas, and then check out contemporary music from Haiti featuring Emeline Michel and Boukman Eksperyans. We close out with a meditation on the song "You Go To My Head" featuring Sarah Vaughn, Clifford Brown, Chet Baker & Paul Bley, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, Lee Morgan, Smokey Robinson, Etta James and Shirley Horn. Enjoy.

We start off in Jamaica with Toots & the Maytals, seminal progenitors of roots reggae, and then head back to New York to catch up with Talib Kweli and his Re:Union Mixtape. We close the week with 12 versions of Oliver Nelson‘s great composition "Stolen Moments" featuring Carmen McRae/Betty Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Anna Luna, Kenny Burrell, Telefon Tel Aviv, Booker Ervin, Mark Murphy, United Future Organization, and New York Voices.

We kick off the funky new year with The Ohio Players and then head to Zimbabwe for mbira music featuring Chinwoniso, Netsayi and Stella Chiweshe. We close out the week with Hoagy Carmichael‘s "Stardust" featuring Sarah Vaughan, Lester Young, Carmen McRae, John Coltrane, Billy Eckstine, Mauricio Einhorn, Aaron Neville, Kermit Ruffins, Esquizito, Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band, Wynton Marsalis and Nat King Cole.