This week’s Fresh Friday is fresh out, yet reassured by the illuminating glow of Bill Evans, Labi Siffre, The Chi-Lites, Art Farmer, Eddie Harris, Gwen McCrae, Pete Jolly, and The Wild Magnolias.

This week’s Fresh Friday frightens away the chaos, possessed by the fiery soul of The Jungle Brothers, Les McCann, Stevie Wonder, Ahmad Jamal, Gil Scott-Heron, EPMD, Hugh Masekela, The Rotary Connection, and De La Soul.

This week’s Fresh Friday offers a safe place to hole up until (if?) the chaos subsides, insulated by the protective grooves of Astrud Gilberto, Dorothy Ashby, Grant Green, Ron Carter, Oliver Nelson, Gene Russell, Bobby Timmons, and Odyssey.

Savor the last drops of summer with a fresh soul-ade that is sure to sate your thirst, sweetened by the syrupy funk of Lonnie Liston Smith, The Voices of East Harlem, Ramsey Lewis, Mind & Matter, The Fatback Band, Walter Lewis & the Blue Stars, Patrice Rushen, and Roy Ayers Ubiquity.

Step in rhythm to this week’s Fresh Friday, synchronized by the unifying funk of Fred Wesley and the J.B.’s, Blue Mitchell, Betty Wright, Leroy Hutson, The Counts, Ann Peebles, Groove Holmes, and the Blackbyrds.

Slather on some SPF 72 for this week’s sunshine-filled Fresh Friday, warmed by the Latin and Brazilian soul of The Chakachas, Cal Tjader, Astrud Gilberto & Stanley Turrentine, Azymuth, Elis & Tom, Marcos Valle, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Gilberto Gil.

We stand and support Black Lives. We use our privilege and our voices and our power to dismantle a racist system designed to terrorize and marginalize Black people and we do it loudly and without compromise.

In anticipation of Pride month, this Fresh Friday celebrates everyone who has ever felt unsafe to share their true selves. Pride cannot be contained or quarantined. It can be amplified by the outside world, but lives within you. It is an enduring expression of honesty, authenticity, and love.

Let this week’s Fresh Friday lift you above the moonlit skies, set adrift by the haunting sounds of Azymuth, Bill Withers, George Benson, Bohannon, Wings, The Heptones, Bill Evans & Jim Hall, and the Beastie Boys.

This week’s Fresh Friday offers appropriately distanced community at a time of isolation, unified by the soulful joy of Grover Monster, Manu Dibango, Kellee Patterson, Idris Muhammad, The Blackbyrds, Groove Holmes, The Pointer Sisters, Donald Byrd, and Hugh Masekela.

This week’s mix is just what the doctor ordered: a fresh Spring vaccine, restored by the inoculating soul of Gil Scott-Heron, The Jan Hammer Group, Marcos Valle, The Redd Holt Unlimited, Don Thompson, Lalomie Washburn, The New Birth, and Pete Jolly!

This week’s rain-soaked mix delivers the freshest of Fridays, nourished by the restorative soul of Rudy Ray Moore, The Kinks, Johnny Hammond, Nino Ferrer & Radiah, Otis Redding, Bill Evans, Lonnie Liston Smith, and Sly & The Family Stone!