This week’s Fresh Friday washes it all away, cleansed by the restorative soul of Bill Evans, The Jones Girls, The Isley Brothers, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Lou Donaldson, Marvin Gaye, De La Soul, and Aretha Franklin.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a jolt of high-wattage soul, electrified by The Staples Jr. Singers, The Lijadu Sisters, Black Star, Herbie Hancock, Curtis Mayfield, Kuku Sebsibe, Marvin Gaye, and Sly Stone.

It’s Fresh Friday and the livin’ is easy. This week’s mix is like aloe on a crispy day, soothed by the cooling soul of The Twinkle Brothers, Bu Pleasant, Q-Tip, RAMP, Rasa, Chick Corea, Roberta Flack, and Meluken Melesse.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a collaboration 12 years in the making, inspired by the reflective soul of The Royal Jesters, A Tribe Called Quest, Roberta Flack, Patrice Rushen, Curtis Mayfield, Can, Jackie Mittoo, and Digital Underground.

This week’s Fresh Friday doubles down on the good times, reflected by the soulful funk of Grace Jones, Grandmaster Flash, Ahmad Jamal, Ronnie Laws, Parliament, The Staples Singers, and Mos Def.

This week’s Fresh Friday towers boldly, propped up by the steady soul of George & Gwen McCrae, Nina Simone, Jimmy Smith, Kimono Kasai, Roy Ayers, Gil Scot-Heron, and Swamp Dogg.

This week’s Fresh Friday is bursting with harmony, ignited by the explosive soul of Mal Waldron, Lorez Alexandria, Valerie Simpson, David Axelrod, Phillis Dillon, Mulatu Astatke, Gwen McCrae, Bobby Hutcherson, and Ben Sidron.

This week’s Fresh Friday looks to the stars, set adrift by the enlightening soul of The Modern Jazz Quartet, Walt Barr, Charles Stepney, Herbie Hancock, Esther Philips, Marcos Valle, Wings, and Michael Jackson.

Let this week’s Fresh Friday rock you into a golden slumber, soothed by the gentle soul of The Zombies, Leroy Hutson, Kimiko Kasai, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Alèmayèhu Eshèté, Edwin Starr, Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, and Lowbites.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a balance of certainty and doubt, obscured by the weighty jazz of Letta Mbulu, David Axelrod, Doug & Jean Carn, Roy Ayers, Bill Evans, Hugh Masekela, and J.J. Johnson.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a mess of R&B and funk, overwhelmed by the soulful sounds of The Jones Girls, Little Sister, BLO, Black Children Sledge Funk Group, The Blackbyrds, Bobbi Humphrey, Les McCann, and The Twinkle Brothers.

This week’s Fresh Friday says goodbye to 2022, carried by the gusting soul of Wee, Yesterday’s New Quintet, The Nu’Rons, Black Star, Ahmad Jamal, Tewolde Redda, and Gil Scott-Heron with Makaya McCraven.

This week’s Fresh Friday hangs at the precipice, warmed by the soulful bouillabaisse of Aretha Franklin, Afrique, Willam Onyeabor, Bobby Timmons, Patrice Rushen, Arthur Conley, Fred & the New J.B.’s, and Garaldo Pino & the Heart Beats.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a soulful negotiation, pushed and pulled by the funky fresh sounds of Gal Costa, Ramsey Lewis, Barbara & Ernie, William DeVaughn, Freddie Hubbard, Seu Jorge, and The Jimmy Castor Bunch.

This week’s Fresh Friday holds its head high, lifted by the esteemed soul of Sam Cooke, Wings, Patrice Rushen, Bobby Hutcherson, The Lijadu Sisters, Dilla x The Beach Boys, and Ndikho Xaba.

This week’s Fresh Friday rises above, reflected by the soulful glints of Lonnie Liston Smith, Kimiko Kasai, Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd, The Meters, Deniece Williams, and Herp Albert.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a ray of sunshine through the early spring clouds, thawed by the warm sounds of Joe Eboh, The Apostles, Cymande, ESG, Love Apple, Hailu Mergia & The Walias, and Jean Paul ‘El Troglodita'.

This week’s Fresh Friday will wash it all away, warmed by the cleansing soul of Bill Evans, Gil Scott-Heron, Anthony Williams, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Sam Cooke, Bettye Swann, and A Tribe Called Quest.

This week’s Fresh Friday will salve your soul, sutured by the healing sounds of Wings, Kimiko Kasai, Roy Ayers, Ronnie Foster, Bobbi Humphrey, Deodato, Sweet Talks, and David Axelrod.

This week’s Fresh Thursday (?) is a soulful digestif to help wash down another challenging year, ripened by the sweet and complex sounds of Erasmo Carlos, Oy Onyioha, Los Disco Duro, The Jungle Brothers, Sweet Talks, Minnie Riperton, Pretty Purdie & the Playboys, and Charles Wright.