JazzFest Detroit with John Penney Playlist January 17, 2026
90.9 WRCJ
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
7:01 pm
Billy Taylor
1963 Capitol Records
Freedom (Live)
Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
7:04 pm
Ranky Tanky
2022 MunckMix
Joyful Noise (feat. Weedie Braimah, Milena Casado, Devon Gates, Morgan Guerin, Zacchae’us Paul, Emmett G. Price III & Matthew Stevens)
We Insist 2025!
7:08 pm
Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell
2025 Candid Records LLC
I Have a Dream
The Prisoner
7:15 pm
Herbie Hancock
2013 Blue Note Records
Sweet Dreams
Check Cashing Day
7:26 pm
Bobby Watson & The I Have a Dream Project
2013 Bobby Watson
Unconditional Love (feat. Esperanza Spalding & Karriem Riggins)
TRIUNE (feat. Esperanza Spalding & Karriem Riggins)
7:32 pm
Nicholas Payton
2025 Smoke Sessions Records
Freedom Ain’t Free
Music Is Life
7:41 pm
Dave McMurray
Blue Note Records; 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Medgar Evers’ Blues
For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver
7:45 pm
Christian McBride Big Band
2020 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
Be Present
The Democracy! Suite
7:54 pm
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
2021 Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit
Quartet
8:05 pm
McCoy Tyner
2007 McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note Records
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught
This Bitter Earth
8:15 pm
Veronica Swift
2020 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
Serenade to a Bus Seat
Serenade to a Bus Seat (Keepnews Collection)
8:20 pm
Clark Terry
This Compilation 2007 Concord Music Group, Inc.
March On Selma
Down With It (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)
8:24 pm
Blue Mitchell
A Blue Note Records Release; 2005 Capitol Records, LLC
Freedom Sound
Freedom Sound
8:31 pm
The Jazz Crusaders
A Capitol Records Release; 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Original Faubus Fables (Remastered)
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Remastered)
8:41 pm
Charles Mingus
1960 Candid
Freedom Day MONO (feat. Abbey Lincoln) [2024 Remaster]
We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite MONO (2024 Remaster) [feat. Abbey Lincoln]
8:50 pm
Max Roach
1960 Candid
Speak No Evil
Live In Detroit vol. 2
9:01 pm
De'Sean Jones and The Urban Arts Orchestra
2024 KMNDK
Voice Inside (Everything Is Everything) [Live]
Live
9:13 pm
Donny Hathaway
1972 Atco Records. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Freedom (Live)
Live At the Scarab Club
9:27 pm
PD9 Township Jazz Project
2015 Eastlawn Records
This Is My Country
Groove In The Face Of Adversity
9:31 pm
Don Was
2025 Institute of Social Disruption, LLC. dba A 927 Records & Tapes release. Under exclusive worldwide license to Mack Avenue Records
Pick Yourself Up
Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays
9:34 pm
Nat 'King' Cole & George Shearing
1987 Capitol Records, LLC
Spirit In the Dark (Live February 7, 1971)
Live At Fillmore West
9:37 pm
Aretha Franklin
1971 Atlantic Recording Corp., manufactured and marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company
Spirit In the Dark (Reprise with Ray Charles) [Live February 7, 1971]
Live At Fillmore West
9:42 pm
Aretha Franklin
1971 Atlantic Recording Corp., manufactured and marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company
Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand) [Live February 7, 1971]
Live At Fillmore West
9:51 pm
Aretha Franklin
1971 Atlantic Recording Corp., manufactured and marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company
All About Love
Pieces of a Dream
9:54 pm
Pieces of a Dream
1981 Elektra Entertainment Company. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
