The second annual In The Groove Throwback Thursday Turkey Fun Time Holiday Show—all with comfort classics! Starting with Sam Cooke, plenty of Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Roberta Flack, Ten Years After, Albert King and many, many more. Enjoy!

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for November 27, 2025

• “A Change Is Gonna Come” – Sam Cooke
• “Better Days” – Graham Nash
• “Whatever I Am” – Nina Simone
• “Saturday Night Special” – Jazzanova
• “Equinox” – John Coltrane
• “Compared To What” – Roberta Flack
• “Lady Day and John Coltrane” – Gil Scott Heron
• “Backlash Blues” – Nina Simone
• “Cadillac Assembly Line” – Albert King
• “Down By The River” – Buddy Miles
• “Come Together” – Ike & Tina Turner
• “California Soul” – Marlena Shaw
• “Soul Vibrations” – Dorothy Ashby
• “Twenty Five Miles” – Edwin Starr
• “Magalenha” – Sergio Mendes
• “Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter” – Nina Simone
• “Bra” – Cymande
• “Hand Clapping Song” – Meters
• “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” – Temptations
• “Superfly” – Curtis Mayfield
• “Rebel Rebel” – Seu Jorge
• “Can You Get To That” – Funkadelic
• “Let ‘Em In” – Wings
• “This Must Be The Place” – Talking Heads
• “Muizenberg” – John Wizards
• “Les La Bas” – Henri Texier
• “This Love Is Here To Stay” – Thomas Dybdahl
• “Open Your Eyes” – Bobby Caldwell
• “Love And Happiness” – Monty Alexander
• “I Dig Love” – George Harrison
• “I’d Love To Change The World” – Ten Years After
• “Fried Neckbones and Some Homefries” – Willie Bobo
• “The Wind Cries Mary” – Jimi Hendrix
• “Wooden Ships” – Crosby, Stills & Nash
• “Sympathy For The Devil” – The Rolling Stones

Listen to In the Groove with host Ryan Patrick Hooper weekdays from noon-3 p.m. ET on 101.9 WDET or stream on-demand at wdet.org.

On this episode of Visions, I expand how I usually think about jazz to include cuts I don’t typically play on the show. I venture into soul with artists like Tower of Power, Aretha Franklin, and Roberta Flack.

I also play a classic blues cut from Lightnin’ Hopkins, plus incredible organ players Charles Earlund and Richard “Groove” Holmes.

To me and many others, these artists are part of the same continuum that jazz falls on, which is Black Music. I’m hoping to continue expanding beyond just playing “jazz” and include Black Music more broadly!

On the more straight-ahead end of the jazz spectrum, I include cuts from Herbie Hancock, the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Bobby Hutcherson, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Rouse, Miles Davis, Larry Young, and a few others.

I hope you like the twists and turns this episode takes!

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 Nov. 24, 2025

• “Biafra” – Nat Adderely
• “Beyond All Limits” – Larry Young
• “Hey Harold (feat. Billy Hart)” – Bobby Hutcherson
• “Soul Vaccination” – Tower of Power
• “Bitchin'” – Charlie Rouse
• “Rock Steady” – Aretha Franklin*
• “Ostinato (Suite for Angela)” – Herbie Hancock
• “Yes Lord” – The Detroit Jazz Composers Ltd.*
• “To Love Somebody” – Roberta Flack
• “The Shadow of Your Smile” – Oscar Peterson
• “Misty” – Richard “Groove” Holmes
• “More Today Than Yesterday” – Charles Earlund
• “Woke Up This Morning” – Lightnin’ Hopkins
• “Compensation (Live at the Village Vanguard)” – The Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
• “Freedom Jazz Dance (Evolution of the Groove)” – Miles Davis

*indicates Detroit artists