Marlena Shaw

That's right.

This next track is called, uh, Women of the Ghetto by Marlena Shaw.

All right.

I'm gonna let the, the track speak for itself.

Mighty Riders with Evil Vibration.

Marlena Shaw, Liberation Conversation.

Of course, we had Nina Simone there with the Backlash Blues.

And lots of boom-bap as well.

Give Me Love off of the album Supernature.

Before that, we heard the track Touch Me in the Morning by Marlena Shaw off of the album Take a Bite.

Now, this is technically a soul cover, and the original song was recorded by Diana Ross in 1973.

Uh, but this was released on her 1979 album, Take a Bite, uh, by Marlena Shaw.

Again, that is the cover, Touch Me in the Morning by Marlena Shaw off of the album Take a Bite.

Before that, we heard the track This Is Time, Baby by Jackie Moore off of the album I'm On My Way.

That came out in 1979.

We heard K-Slice and Kwame Nkrumah from I Take You High Life.

Marlena Shaw and Brother Where Are You from a collection, arrangements and productions of the great Charles Stepney.

We'll play some more from that next.

Later on in the show, and we started out with Cecilia Stalin, Afro Blue from her John Coltrane tribute that dropped this week, also called Step Like a Giant.

He played with Woody Herman and Stan Kenton.

Marlena Shaw was born in 1939, vocal powerhouse behind the jazz song California Soul.

Jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark was born in 1964, was also a MacArthur Fellow and avant-garde jazz saxophonist.

Jeanette Napolitano was born in 1957.