A Love Supreme August 3 2026 Part 1

This week on A Love Supreme, we’re traveling a pretty wide road—starting with the deep spiritual waters of Sweet Honey in the Rock and moving through freedom songs, South African grooves, hard bop, soul jazz, poetry, folk, and some music that doesn’t really need a category at all. Along the way we’ll hear Abdullah Ibrahim, Moses Molelekwa, Charles Lloyd, Cassandra Wilson, Leon Thomas, Shabaka, Somi, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Brad Mehldau, Isaiah Collier, Nduduzo Makhathini and a whole lot more. There’s a thread running through all of it: freedom, spirit, resistance, beauty, social justice, and the strange business of being alive—music that has something to say about the world we live in, and sometimes about how we might change it. We’ll even wander from Miles Davis to Neil Young and Leonard Cohen and back again—because around here, if it swings, speaks, aches, or tells us something true, it belongs. This is A Love Supreme.