Oscar Brown, Jr., "Bid Em In": Third Track off Sin & Soul, 1960
Matana Roberts, "Libation for Mr. Brown," Fifth Track off Coin Coin, Chapter One, 2011
The Fisk Jubilee Singers, "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Play," First Track off Smithsonian Folkways Records, 1955.
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, "See See Rider Blues," 1924
Bessie Smith's 1925 recording of W.C. Handy's 1912 "St. Louis Blues," with Louis Armstrong on Cornet.
Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit," 1939
Son House, "County Farm Blues," Recorded at the Library of Congress, 1941
Charlie Parker,"Yardbird Suite," 1946
Nina Simone, "Sinnerman," Off Pastel Blues, 1965
Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On," 1971
