| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lena Horne | I'd Do Anything | Stormy Weather | |
| Billie Holiday | Give Me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer | The Essential Ms Day | |
| Zadie Smith | Crazy They Call Me | Part 1 | |
| Billie Holiday | Strange Fruit | The Essential Ms Day | |
| Zadie Smith | Crazy They Call Me | Part 2 | |
| Abner Jay | I'm So Depressed | True Story of Abner Jay | |
| Art Tatum | There Will Never Be Another You | The Tatum Solo Masterpieces (Vol 2) | |
| Duke Ellington | Caravan | The Duke Remastered | |
| Cab Calloway | Zaz Zhu Zaz | The Early Years 1930-34 | |
| Howlin' Wolf | Who Will Be Next? | Legendary | |
| Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers | El Toro | By Popular Demand | |
| Bill Withers | Lovely Day | Menagerie | |
| Marvin Gaye | That's The Way Love Is | M.P.G. | |
| Smokey Robinson and the Miracles | My Girl | Legends | |
| Otis Redding | Try A Little Tenderness | Definitive | |
| Al Green | Love and Happiness | I'm Still In Love With You | |
| The Shirelles | Baby It's You | single | |
| Aaron Neville | Tell It Like It Is | single | |
| Pam Grier | Long Time Woman | Jackie Brown OST | |
| Erykah Badu | Didn't Cha Know | Mama's Gun | |
| Lauryn Hill | Everything is Everything | The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | |
| Solange | Can I Hold the Mic | When I Get Home | |
| Solange | Stay Flo | When I Get Home | |
| Grace Jones | Libertango | The Collection | |
| Childish Gambino | This Is America | single | |
| Kool Keith | Livin' Astro | Black Elvis / Lost In Space | |
| Janelle Monae | Pynk | Dirty Computer |
Program:
Celebrate Black History Month on I Digress today! Lena Horne! Otis Redding! Janelle Monae! Sharon Jones, OH MYYYY!
Link to the lovely Zadie Smith essay on Billie Holiday called "Crazy They Call Me" from her marvellous book of short stories, interviews, and essays called Feel Free (available at Smithers Public Library).
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/crazy-they-call-me