Tonight on Visions, I play classics from Sam Rivers, Grant Green, Duke Pearson, Mal Waldron, Shirley Scott, and Ahmad Jamal. You’ll hear newer discoveries for me from Luis Gasca, Luiz Bonfá, and Yo Miles! which is Wadada Leo Smith & Henry Kaiser.

I’ve got more recent releases from Patricia Brennan, Linda May Han Oh, and Emma Dayhuff. Plus, I’ve got a few things in between from Ingrid Laubrock, Don Cherry, Geri Allen and Mulgrew Miller.

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 August 17, 2026

• “Batista’s Groove” – Geri Allen*
• “Directions” – Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith
• “Five Suns” – Patricia Brennan
• “Enchanted Mirror” – Luiz Bonfá
• “Jaribu (feat. Kahil El’Zabar, Isaiah Collier & Dee Alexander)” – Emma Dayhuff
• “Dewey’s Tune” – Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Old and New Dreams & Dewey Redman
• “Piracuama” – Ingrid Laubrock
• “Street Dude” – Luis Gasca
• “My Man’s Gone Now” – Mulgrew Miller
• “Southern Comfort” – Shirley Scott Trio
• “Firedancer” – Linda May Han Oh
• “Warm Canto (feat. Eric Dolphy & Booker Ervin)” – Mal Waldron
• “Jean de Fleur” – Grant Green
• “Poinciana (Live at The Pershing, Chicago, 1958)” – Ahmad Jamal Trio
• “Beatrice” – Sam Rivers

* indicates a Detroit artist

This week on Visions, I play a lot of different selections. You hear new music from the Kris Davis Trio, Dominique Eade and Ran Blake, Patricia Brennan and Sylvie Courvoisier, Fuller Sound—which is sisters Tia Fuller and Shamie Royston— and a record called “FATHERS” coming out on Blue Note next month.

I have selections from Stanley Clarke, the Rashied Ali Quintet, Nicholas Payton, Brad Mehldau, and Jimi Hendrix. I also play classics from Ahmad Jamal, Julian Priester, Shirley Scott, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, and Charles Mingus.

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 June 29, 2026

• “I’ll Take Romance / My Funny Valentine (Live at the Blackhawk, San Francisco/1961)” – Ahmad Jamal
• “24-Hour Leave” – Julian Priester
• “Backlash Blues” – Nina Simone
• “Beatrice” – Tia Fuller, Shamie Royston & Fuller Sound
• “PEARL” – Nate Smith, Kiefer, CARRTOONS, Kenny Beats
• “Out Of This World” – Shirley Scott
• “After The Rain” – John Coltrane
• “Lost In Geneva (feat. Robert Hurst* & Johnathan Blake)” – Kris Davis Trio
• “Bass Folk Song” – Stanley Clarke
• “Let It Ride (feat. Esperanza Spalding & Karriem Riggins*)” – Nicholas Payton
• “Thing for Joe” – Rashied Ali Quintet
• “The Star Spangled Banner (Live)” – Jimi Hendrix
• “Track A – Solo Dancer” – Charles Mingus
• “Grey December” – Ran Blake and Dominique Eade
• “Coma Berenices” – Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier
• “All the Things You Are (Live)” – Brad Mehldau

* indicates Detroit artist