If you want your soul… get it UpFront! Producer and host Sanguine Fromage, WERU dj since 2005, serves up a weekly blend of funk, soul, and jazz, plus sprinklings of R&B, gospel, and hip-hop. UpFront Soul showcases obscure artists and back-catalogue offerings from more familiar names. You’ll find West African funk, funk-enriched jazz, deep soul, and only the best modern music.
October 26, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll spin spooky tunes from Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Stevie Wonder, Rockwell and Redbone, Toots and the Maytals and The Jimmy Castor Bunch!
Read MoreOctober 19, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll get funky with Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Parliament, and Johnny Hammond, feel the Power of Soul with Idris Muhammad, and spin the latest ENDRECHERI single featuring George Clinton!
Read MoreOctober 12, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll hear newly releases from the archives by Charlie Parker and Roy Hargrove, bask in the dawning of the Age of Aquarius with Japanese and jazz interpretations of the music of Hair, and Pass the Peas with the JBs.
Read MoreOctober 5, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll celebrate the nonsensical with The Spaniels' "Great Googley Moo," hear the gospel power of Mahalia Jackson and Billy Preston, and spin some outrageous covers by Tongo and Fishbone's Angelo Moore.
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll go to Party Land with The Blackbyrds and Up the Stairs and Around the Bend with Mickey & the Soul Generation, squeeze in a little more Summer Madness with Kool & the Gang, and cook up some Mean Greens with Eddie Harris.
Read MoreSeptember 21, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll hear songs of love from Wild Fire, William Oneyabor, and Curtis Mayfield, Show Some Emotion with Joan Armatrading, and Chase the Devil with Max Romeo.
Read MoreSeptember 14, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll do the Zombie March with Rudy Ray Moore and the Bantu Strut with George McCrae, and serenade the building trades with the Hustlers Brass Band's cover of Brick House and The Four Tops' version of If I Were a Carpenter.
Read MoreSeptember 7, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll spin a set of Crescent City brass and funk from The Wild Tchoupitoulas, The Soul Rebels, and the Rebirth Brass Band, admire the Party Lights with Claudine Clark, and compete in our own Olympics- the vocal group, that is.
Read MoreAugust 24, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz Pt1 & Pt2
We'll Shout Bamalama with Otis Redding, head to Funkytown with Lipps Inc., and Get Small with Trouble Funk, plus we'll hear a smoking set of afrobeat featuring Femi Kuti and Orlando Julius and see Pretty Girls Everywhere with Eugene Church.
Read MoreAugust 17, 2024 Past Program - Music, Past Programs
UpFront Soul: Funk, soul, and jazz with Sanguine Fromage
We'll step out in our High Heeled Sneakers with Jackie Shane, travel to Ancient Ethiopia with Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra, and hear a new release of Louis Armstrong's last great performance with the BBC, Louis in London.
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