Excellence In Jazz Playlist, January 19, 2026
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy (left) shakes hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala., on March 22, 1956, as a big crowd of supporters cheers for King, who had just been found guilty of leading the Montgomery bus boycott.
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Join us tonight from 7 to midnight for our musical celebration of the MLK legacy!
7:00 p.m.
Joe Henderson
Black Narcissus
Power To The People
7:04 p.m.
Harold Land
The Peace-Maker
The Peace-Maker
7:11 p.m.
Jon Davis
Search For Peace
Happy Juice
7:15 p.m.
McCoy Tyner
Contemplation
Land Of Giants
7:21 p.m.
Joey Alexander
Fragile
Warna
7:27 p.m.
Eric Reed
Come Sunday
For Such A Time As This
7:29 p.m.
Oscar Brown, Jr.
Brother, Where Are You?
Verve Unmixed 2
7:38 p.m.
Bobby Hutcherson
Dear Lord
Wise One
7:44 p.m.
Jean Carn
Time Is Running Out
Revelation
7:47 p.m.
Eric Reed
Lean On Me (feat. Calvin Rhone)
Black, Brown & Blue
7:51 p.m.
Freddie Hubbard
The Black Angel
The Black Angel
8:00 p.m.
Jazzmeia Horn
No More
Love & Liberation
8:03 p.m.
Curtis Brothers
Afro Blue
Syzygy
8:11 p.m.
Leon Thomas
The Creator Has A Master Plan (Peace)
Spirits Known And Unknown
8:15 p.m.
Terence Blanchard
Breathless
Breathless
8:20 p.m.
Alice Coltrane
Blue Nile
Ptah The El Daoud
8:28 p.m.
Cannonball Adderley
Country Preacher
Country Preacher "Live" At Operation Breadbasket
8:33 p.m.
Cannonball Adderley
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
The Best Of Cannonball Adderley: The Capitol Years
8:38 p.m.
Cannonball Adderley
Why (Am I Treated So Bad)
The Best Of Cannonball Adderley: The Capitol Years
8:46 p.m.
Dick Sisto
Acknowledgment
Spirit Of Life
8:53 p.m.
Donald Harrison
New Hope
Nouveau Swing
9:00 p.m.
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Why Can't We Live Together
Breathe
9:07 p.m.
Buckshot LeFonque & Branford Marsalis
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Buckshot LeFonque
9:16 p.m.
Joe Magnarelli
26-2
Three On Two
9:22 p.m.
Jamison Ross
Set Us Free
Jamison
9:28 p.m.
Jessica Williams
Freedom Trane
Freedom Trane
9:35 p.m.
Gregory Porter
Holding On
Take Me To The Alley
9:40 p.m.
Malachi Thompson
Black Metropolis
Blue Jazz
9:50 p.m.
Stanley Cowell
King
It's Time
10:00 p.m.
Herbie Hancock
I Have A Dream
Prisoner
10:10 p.m.
John Coltrane
Wise One
Crescent
10:21 p.m.
Michael White
The Blessing Song
Pure Fire! A Gilles Peterson impulse! Collection
10:27 p.m.
George Duke
The Black Messiah, Part II
Face The Music
10:35 p.m.
Leon Thomas
One
The Creator 1969-1973: The Best Of The Flying Dutchman Masters
10:38 p.m.
Steve Smith
Ascendant
Live On Tour Vol. 1
10:45 p.m.
Lizz Wright
Afro Blue
Salt
10:51 p.m.
Erik Jekabson
Above The Clouds
Breakthrough
11:00 p.m.
Christian McBride
Sister Rosa
The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons
11:06 p.m.
Christian McBride Big Band
Medgar Evers Blues
For Jimmy, Wes And Oliver
11:14 p.m.
Eddie Henderson
Freedom Jazz Dance
Witness To History
11:20 p.m.
Archie Shepp
Blues For Brother George Jackson
Verve Unmixed 2
11:23 p.m.
The Jazz Crusaders
Freedom Sound
Freedom Sound
11:33 p.m.
Joshua Redman
Alabama
Where Are We
11:41 p.m.
Robert Glasper
I Stand Alone (feat. Common & Patrick Stump)
Black Radio 2
11:46 p.m.
Pharoah Sanders
Thembi
Thembi
11:54 p.m.
Eric Reed
We Shall Overcome
For Such A Time As This
