| Sobering thoughts and celebration: | Post-Baltimore songs of social issues; Rafael Manriquez tribute | and today is Duke Ellington's 116th birthday!~ | |
| Grateful Dead | Cosmic Charlie ('69, Avalon) | Aoxomoxoa (2001 edition) | Rhino/GratefuL Dead |
| Patti Smith | Are You Experienced | Twelve | Columbia |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers | 400 Years (original version) | Catch a FIre (deluxe ed) | Island |
| Josh White | Free and Equal Blues | Free and Equal Blues | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Nina Simone | I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free | To Be Free; The Nina Simone Story (box) | RCA Legacy |
| Ambrose Akimusire | Rollcall for Those Absent | The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint | Blue Note |
| Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell | Sweetest Thing | Pine Hill Project | Signature Sounds |
| Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell | Lately | Pine Hill Project | Signature Sounds |
| Los Cenzontles with Andre Thierry (and David Hidalgo) | Tu Sonrisa | Shades of Brown | Los Cenzontles |
| Rafael Manriquez | En Mi Cielo al Crepusculo | Canto al Poeta (songs of Neruda) | Manriquez and Brown |
| Rafael Manriquez | Soneto VI | Canto al Poeta | Manriquez and Brown |
| Okay, let's celebrate | Duke Ellington's 116th Birthday | | |
| Duke Ellington | East St. Louis Toodle-O | Centennial Collection | RCA |
| Duke Ellington | Creole Love Call (Adelaide Hall: Vocal) | The Early Recordings 1927-1934 | RCA |
| Duke Ellington | The Mooche | Centennial Collection | RCA |
| Duke Ellington (Ivie Anderson: Vocal) | It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got that Swing | Duke Ellington and his Great Vocalists | Columbia Legacy |
| Duke Ellington | Daybreak Express | THe Early Recordings 1927-1934 | RCA |
| Duke Ellington and Ray BRown | Pitter Panther Patter | This ONe's for Blanton | Pablo |
| Duke Ellington and John Coltrane | In a Sentimental Mood | Duke Ellington and John Coltrane | Impulse |
| Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach | Caravan | Money Jungle | Blue Note |
| Duke Ellington | Kinda Dukish and Rockin' in Rhythm | Soul Call | Verve |
| Duke Ellington | Such Sweet THunder | Soul Call | Verve |
| Duke Ellington with Frank Sinatra | I Like the Sunrise | Francis A. & Edward K. | Reprise |
