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.

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 ventures to disrupt the monotony, spun round by the momentous soul of The Village Callers, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The Meters, The Esbee Family, Christy Essien, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Mayfield, and the Lijadu Sisters.

This week’s Fresh Friday anticipates the light as we exit the tunnel, warmed by the soulful glow of Bill Evans, Donald Byrd, Gene Russell, Abbey Lincoln, Joe Henderson, Mary Lou Williams, Groove Holmes, and Nina Simone.

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.

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.

The week’s Fresh Friday finds balance amongst chaos, steadied by the high flying soul of The Valentinos, Blue Mitchell, Cymande, Lee Morgan, The Dramatics, Larry Young, The Miracles, and Gilberto Gil!

This week’s Fresh Friday is a beautiful mess of rhythm, tangled by the soulful sounds of Lorez Alexandria, Luis Bonfá, Jimmy Smith, Pete Jolly, Cal Tjader, The Royal Jesters, The Har-You Percussion Group, and Blossom Dearie.

This week’s Fresh Friday is a continuous pulse of jazz-infused empowerment, fueled by the nonstop rhythms of The Young-Holt Unlimited, Alan Hull, Reuben Wilson, Herbie Hancock, Dr. John, Nina Simone, Jim Sullivan, and Shirley Scott.

This week’s Fresh Friday illuminates the path of your inner world, guided by the stirring sounds of The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Whatnauts, Barbara & Ernie, Delroy Wilson, Charlie Earland, Tommy James & The Shondells, The Heptones, and Bob Dylan.

Fall into this week’s Fresh Friday, steadied by the foundational soul of Bernice Reagon, Roy Ayers, Eddie Harris, Blossom Dearie, Bill Evans & Jim Hall, Rusty Bryant, and The Singers Unlimited.

Brothers and sisters, this week’s Fresh Friday (on a Tuesday) doesn’t know what the world is coming to, braved by the credible funk of Eddie Kendricks, Maya Angelou, Fela Kuti, Prince, Ann Peebles, Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra, & Tina Turner.

Rejoice in the salvation of this week's Fresh Friday, warmed by the radiant soul of George Benson, Shuggie Otis, Malo, Hugh Masekela, Charles Wright, Jimmy McGriff, Hopeton Lewis, and Otis Redding! 

As we near the season finale of "Shitshow 2017," cleanse in the self-reflective waters of Sam Cooke, The Pretty Things, John Phillips, Manu Dibango, Bobby Hutcherson, Marlena Shaw, Ronnie Foster, and Nina Simone. 

2014 wouldn’t have that new car smell without the sparkle-fresh soul of Johnnie Taylor, Roy Ayer’s Ubiquity, The Crusaders, Junior Parker & Jimmy McGriff, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, The Loving Sisters, and Al Green. Because it ain’t whatcha got, it’s what you do with whatcha got that makes it groovy, baby.

It’s time to count it off, as Fresh Friday blasts off this week with purpose, fueled by the premium-unleaded-soul of Mantronix, Eugene Record, Buddy Rich, Bob James with Patti Austin, Labi Siffre, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, and Willie Bobo & the Bo-Gents!

This week’s Fresh Friday is easier than two Sunday Mornings, assuaged by the melancholy genius of Nat King Cole, Jimmy Smith, Bob Dorough, Sonny Rollins, Nat Adderley, Billie Holliday, and Mulatu Astatke.