After ten years of Freshness, this week drops a collection of favorites from years’ past, with soul vibrations provided by Roy Ayers’ Ubiquity, Kansas City Express, Bohannon, Kool & the Gang, Art Blakey, El Chicano, Junior Parker, and the Impressions. (Cover featuring “Rescue” by Dawn Bassett)

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 honors music and musicians across Africa, pulsed by the soulful heartbeat of Mulatu Astatke (with the Heliocentrics), William Onyeabor, Hailu Mergia, Fela Kuti, The Dur-Dur Band, Alemayehu Eshete, Dollar Brand & Johnny Dyani, and Hugh Masekela (with Hedzolah Sounds).

This week’s Fresh Friday haunts like a lingering dream, featuring the misunderstood magic of Shel Silverstein, Bobby Charles, Kathleen Emery, Chick Corea, Jim Sullivan, McDonald & Giles, Love Apple, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, The Free Design, Brenton Wood, and Donovan.

This Week’s Fresh Friday turns a narrative page, propelled forward by the reflective soul of Curtis Mayfield, The Sylvers, The Real ShooBeeDoo, Don Thompson, Lalomie Washburn, 79.5, Larry Young, and Digital Underground.

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.

This week’s Fresh Friday sprouts beauty through the muck, watered by the delicate grooves of Nikki Giovanni, Erasmo Carlos, Michael Franks, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Blossom Dearie, David Axelrod, Don Cherry, Cymande, and Smokey Robinson.

Soak in this week’s Fresh Friday, awash with the cleansing soul of Azymuth, Eddie Kendrick, The Joneses, The Young-Holt Unlimited, Milt Jackson, Mind & Matter, Melvin Sparks, and the Chi-Lites.

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!