This week on Visions, I decide to take us all over the musical map. I celebrate classics and brand new music.

You hear from Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Bobby Hutcherson, Buddy Rich, Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley, and Antônio Carlos Jobim & Frank Sinatra. There’s also a 50th album anniversary from Earl Klugh and Alice Coltrane.

I also play new music from Joel Ross, Tomeka Reid, Craig Taborn, Melissa Aldana, and Walter Smith III, recent releases from Joshua Redman and Sessa, and a new release I’m really excited about by Flea.

Finally, I play a track by Detroit’s Ian Fink to promote a brand new concert series starting here in Detroit. You can hear Ian this Sunday, Feb. 1 at 2:00 p.m., at Fort Street Presbyterian Church.

The series was started by Detroit composer, pianist, and bandleader, Michael Malis and features five of Detroit and southeast Michigan’s most exciting pianists: Ian Fink, Andy Milne, Lisa Sung, Alvin Waddles, and Brendon Davis. Learn more here.

Check out the playlist below and listen to the episode on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Visions Playlist for Jan. 26, 2026

• “Vonetta” – Earl Klugh*
• “Be Patient” – Joel Ross
• “Pensativa” – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
• “Oo long! (feat. Jason Roebke, Mary Halvorson & Tomas Fujiwara)” – Tomeka Reid
• “Before the Lights Go On” – Marcello Melis
• “Montara” – Bobby Hutcherson
• “After Minneapolis (face toward mo[u]rning) [feat. Gabrielle Cavassa]” – Joshua Redman
• “I Love Music” – Ian Fink*
• “Nutville” – Buddy Rich
• “My Ideal” – Walter Smith III
• “La Sentencia” – Melissa Aldana
• “Dindi” – Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim
• “Bicho Lento” – Sessa
• “When Kabuya Dances” – Craig Taborn, Tomeka Reid & Ches Smith
• “Blue Nile” – Alice Coltrane*
• “Never Will I Marry” – Cannonball Adderley & Nancy Wilson
• “Traffic Lights (feat. Thom Yorke)” – Flea
• “Blues Again” – Mulgrew Miller

* Indicates Detroit artists

A whole bunch of throwbacks from Sandra Wright, Harry Nilsson, Jan Hammer Group, Irma Thomas and more. Plus new music from Arctic Monkeys—the band’s first new release in four years which appears on a new benefit compilation for War Child—Jill Scott and Flea.

Spoon will be in town on June 26 at the Fillmore Detroit, co-headlining with the Beths out of New Zealand, so we will go heavy on their back catalog. Check it out!

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for January 22, 2026

• “Everything Hits At Once” – Spoon
• “Opening Night” – Arctic Monkeys & War Child Records
• “Inside and Out” – Feist
• “Midnight Affair” – Sandra Wright
• “Beautiful People” – Jill Scott
• “Traffic Lights (feat. Thom Yorke)” – Flea
• “The Fool” – Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network
• “Anemone” – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
• “Otis” – The Durutti Column
• “I Go (DJ Koze Remix)” – Peggy Gou
• “Operator (DJ Koze’s Disco Edit)” – Låpsley
• “Wi Ing Wi Ing” – HYUKOH
• “Paper Tiger” – Spoon
• “Early In The Morning” – Harry Nilsson
• “Don’t You Know” – Jan Hammer Group
• “Sexy Boy (Vegyn Version)” – AIR
• “Making Planets (featuring Mr. Lif)” – Edan
• “Time Outt (Segue)” – Edan
• “Black Power” – Peace
• “I’m So Green” – Can
• “Planted A Thought” – Arthur Russell
• “Wild Horses” – Leon Russell
• “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” – The Peddlers
• “Forge Your Own Chains” – D.R. HOOKER
• “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)” – Irma Thomas
• “Day Dreaming” – Aretha Franklin
• “This Is How We Walk On the Moon” – Arthur Russell
• “If I Had a Tail” – Queens of the Stone Age
• “Hand of Doom” – Black Sabbath
• “Baby” – Donnie & Joe Emerson
• “Maps” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Listen to In the Groove with host Ryan Patrick Hooper weekdays from noon-3 p.m. ET on 101.9 WDET or stream on-demand at wdet.org.