This week’s jazz offering on Strictly Jazz Sounds celebrates Black History Month through jazz, poetry and spoken word. The show opens with Geri Allen’s version of the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” as should every presentation this honored month. Other highlights include Christian McBride’s noted album, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons, selections from Randy Weston’s Uhuru Afrika, a suite in four-movements, jazz and poetry by Benjamin Boone featuring Patricia Smith and Donald Brown II, along with compositions focused on the injustices of the justice system in America by Terri Lyne Carrington, Alonzo Demetrius and Shabaka Hutchings. Join host Steve Braunginn on Thursday, February 11, 2-5 PM CT only on WORT89.9-FM, your place for jazz. (streaming at wortfm.org)
(Photo of Geri Allen by Steve Braunginn © 2017)