Happy Anniversary Nightsiders and Happy New Year!

The 7th Anniversary Show celebrates great Poetry and Jazz from 2021 with a fantastic list of 30 Nightside favorites.

In no particular order…

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises

Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future

Makaya McCraven – Deciphering The Message

Esperanza Spalding – Songwrights Apothecary Lab

James Brandon Lewis – Jesup Wagon

Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Searching For the Disappeared Hour

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels – Tone Poem

Veronica Swift – This Bitter Earth

Kenny Garrett – Sounds From the Ancestors

Dave Holland – Another Land

Renee Rosnes – Kinds of Love

Patricia Brennan – Maquishti

Yellowjackets – Jackets XL

Kurt Elling – Super Blue

Jon Batiste – We Are

Julian Lage – Squint

Amanda Tosoff – Earth Voices

Ron Miles – Rainbow Sign

Ted Nash & Glenn Close – Transformation

David Sanford Big Band (feat. Hugh Ragin)

A Prayer for Lester Bowie

Marianne Faithful – She Walks in Beauty

John McLaughlin – Liberation Time

Roddy Ellias Free Spirit Ensemble (feat. Kellylee Evans)

Not This Room lyrics by the poet Sandra Nicholls

Dr. Lonnie Smith – Breathe

Obed Calvaire – Whole Lotta Love

Mary LaRose – Out Here

Terence Blanchard – Absence

Brandee Younger – Somewhere Different

Adrian Younge – The American Negro)

Tune in the Anniversary Show on The Nightside with Andy O’ on Sunday, January 2 from 8 to midnight. Only on KUVO JAZZ!

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