Real wild mix today that starts with FKJ & Bas before heading over to Gil Scott Heron’s forever important “Winter In America” and ending up with a lot of Prince (I’m still collecting myself after hearing his stripped down version of “17 Days” with just him, a mic and a piano).

I wanted to shout out some of the musicians who have lost their homes and their livelihoods in the Los Angeles wildfires, including John Carroll Kirby (with the aptly titled track “Rainmaker”) plus endlessly influential hip-hop producer Madlib and Detroit’s own Bennie Maupin, the multireedist jazz musician who famously appears on Herbie Hancock’s “Headhunters” album. 

Maupin, who has been a resident of Altadena for 30 years, was quoted in the New York Post: “I managed to get out. I lost all my instruments and all my music. All of that’s gone, but I’m still here.”

Madlib has a fundraiser going to help him and his family out via Donorbox.

Maupin has a fundraiser for him and his family via GoFundMe.

If you can support, I hope you do. I know it’s an amazingly small selection of artists who have been affected, but it’s something.

WDET’s Shigeto did a wonderful tribute to Los Angeles and its many musicians on The New Music Show — you can check that out here.

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 Jan. 14, 2025

• “Risk” – FKJ & Bas
• “Winter In America” – Gil Scott Heron
• “Rainmaker” – John Carroll Kirby
• “What You Are” – Pete Brandt’s Method
• “My Last Chance (SalaAM ReMi LP Mix)” – Marvin Gaye
• “Lazarus” – David Bowie
• “LUST.” – Kendrick Lamar
• “Right” – David Bowie
• “Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing (12″ Version)” – Gloria Ann Taylor
• “Multi-Love” – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• “Too Good (Unknown Mortal Orchestra Remix)” – Arlo Parks
• “Something, Anything” – STR4TA
• “Gorgeous (Evm128 Remix)” – Detroit Rising
• Let Your Hair Down (feat. Hutch the Great)” – Max Sinal
• “17 Days (Piano & a Microphone 1983 Version)” – Prince
• “Just Like a Baby” – Sly & the Family Stone
• “Liquid Love (feat. Sylvia Cox)” – Roy Ayers
• “We Are The Sun” – Sault
• “Don’t Wanna Fight” – Alabama Shakes
• “Wind Parade” – Donald Byrd
• “Stepping Into Tomorrow” – Madlib
• “Pop Life (12″ Version)” – Prince & the Revolution
• “You’re Not In Love” – Carmen Lundy
• “Nomalizo” – Letta Mbulu
• “Road of the Lonely Ones” – Madlib
• “Crime Pays” – Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
• “Auditorium (feat. Slick Rick)” – Mos Def
• “Accordion” – Madvillain
• “Raid (feat. MED)” – Madvillain
• “Umm Hmm” – Erykah Badu
• “Anointed Soul” – Jahari Massamba Unit, Karriem Riggins & Madlib
• “Watermelon Man” – Herbie Hancock & Headhunters

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