In The Groove: Birthday candles for Roy Ayers, Elvin Jones + new music from The The, Black Thought

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"In the Groove" host Ryan Patrick Hooper in WDET's studios in Detroit.

Genre doesn’t matter. Good music does.

A true genre-busting show today with music from Black Thought, The The, Yazmin Lacey, Mk.Gee, Kevin Reynolds, Shadow Show and many more. Plus, birthday candles for one of the greatest jazz drummers ever, Elvin Jones, and vibraphonist frontman Roy Ayers.

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 Sept. 10, 2024

  • “Bad Company” – Yazmin Lacey
  • “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby” – Roy Ayers
  • “Cognitive Dissident” – The The
  • “Firesuite” – Doves
  • “Alone” – El Michels Affair & Black Thought
  • “Getting Nasty” – Ike Turner
  • “Sports” – Aaron Parks
  • “Self” – Cleo Sol
  • “Old Life” – Mustafa
  • “The Upper Peninsula” – Sufjan Stevens
  • “Tahquamenon Falls” – Sufjan Stevens
  • “Learning Lessens” – Andrew Ashong, Kaidi Tatham & Shy One
  • “Steps” – Joshua Crumbly & Samora Pinderhughes
  • “Are You Looking Up” – Mk.gee
  • “Family Tree” – Kevin Reynolds
  • “Floating” – Maria Chiara Argirò
  • “Everything In Its Right Place” – Radiohead
  • “Rust (feat. Tom Misch)” – Yussef Dayes
  • “April” – Local Natives
  • “Freedom” – Jordan Rakei
  • “Mr. Jones” – Elvin Jones
  • “A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement” – John Coltrane
  • “Love Is Everywhere” – Pharoah Sanders
  • “The Puzzle Dust” – Jonny Drop & Andrew Ashong
  • “Thrown Around” – James Blake
  • “Everybody Loves the Sunshine (feat. Theo Croker)” – Kiefer
  • “Liquid Love (feat. Sylvia Cox)” – Roy Ayers
  • “I’ll Go With You” – La Luz
  • “Mystic Spiral” – Shadow Show
  • “Kokoro” – Sababa 5 & Yurika Hanashima
  • “Stompin & Motorik’n” – Penza Penza
  • “TURBULÊNCIA” – Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly
  • “Dub Je Je” – Antibalas
  • “Like I Say (I runaway)” – Nilufer Yanya
  • “Money Shows (feat. Eartheater)” – John Glacier
  • “Times” – Wu-Lu
  • “Fugue (Bin Song)” – Squid

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  • Ryan Patrick Hooper inside the WDET studio.
    Ryan Patrick Hooper is the award-winning host of "In the Groove" on 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. Hooper has covered stories for the New York Times, NPR, Detroit Free Press, Hour Detroit, SPIN and Paste magazine.