WBGO Fall 2025 Fund Drive Items
CD: Abbey Lincoln: Golden Lady
Minimum $8.33 ongoing monthly contribution OR $100 one-time lump-sum contribution
Features supporting players Archie Shepp on tenor and soprano, trumpeter Roy Burroughs, pianist Hilton Ruiz, bassist Jack Gregg and drummer Freddie Waits. Tracks are: Sophisticated Lady, Golden Lady, Painted Lady, Throw it Away, What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life, Caged Bird.
BOOK: Ella: Centennial Birthday Edition (Hardcover) by Geoffrey Mark + 2 Exclusive Deluxe CDs
Minimum $15 ongoing monthly contribution OR $180 one-time lump sum contribution
This hardcover copy of Geoffrey Mark’s biography of Ella Fitzgerald includes an exclusive 2-CD set of 39 studio and live tracks. These tracks were carefully selected by Ella expert/author Mark from all four of her major recording labels (Decca, Verve, Capitol & Pablo), gathering for the first time ever in one collection the best of her work from 1938 through 1989, and sequenced as she would have sung them in live performance. This collection is exclusive to
the book and cannot be purchased elsewhere.
4 CD SET: James Brown: Star Time + Booklet
Minimum $15 ongoing monthly contribution OR $180 one-time lump sum contribution
This is the definitive 35th anniversary James Brown collection: 5 hours of music, 72 songs, including many rare or previously unreleased recordings. 64 page booklet includes an introduction by James Brown, 3 essays, rare photos, complete discography, detailed recording information. Digitally remastered from the original master tapes.
4 CD SET: Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar + BOOK
Minimum $15 ongoing monthly contribution OR $180 one-time lump sum contribution
This expansive four-disc anthology essentially covers the recorded history of the guitar in the 20th century, beginning with the ragtime banjo that set the table for the role of the guitar in a jazz setting in the early 1900s, and then touching all the bases clear through to the post-postmodern possibilities of the instrument in the 21st century. Book included containing photos, essays. Introduction by John Scofield.
10 CD Set: The Body & Soul Collection
Minimum $20 ongoing monthly contribution OR $240 one-time lump-sum contribution
This sultry collection features romantic soul songs performed by the most legendary artists of our time. 144 songs on 10-CDs are stored in an exclusive collector's box. Break open the champagne and light the candles because Body + Soul brings together the best soul ballads ever recorded from the '60s, '70s and '80s. The selections are catalogued by Duets, Rock Me Tonight, Always, Love You Down and Turn Off The Lights. Artists like Marvin Gaye, Al Green,Patti LaBelle and Luther Vandross turn up the heat.
10 CD Set: Soul of the 70s
Minimum $20 ongoing monthly contribution OR $240 one-time lump-sum contribution
The 10-CD collection of SOUL OF THE 70s is a 150-song set which includes a special CD of soul dance tracks. Also get a full-color booklet packed with stories about the decade and its music. Everything comes in a matching collector's box. FEATURED ARTISTS: Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson Five, Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, the O Jays, James Brown, Tavares, Kool & the Gang, Lou Rawls, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Commodores, Rick James, the Ohio Players, Marvin Gaye, Natalie Cole, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Teddy Pendergrass, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Peaches & Herb and many more.
The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans 4 CD Set + BOOK
Minimum $20 ongoing monthly contribution OR $240 one-time lump-sum contribution
Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans is a box set compilation gathering 85 songs representing the music of New Orleans from the 1920s to 2003. Represented on the album are a variety of musical genres: jazz, R&B and blues, and a number of musicians, such as Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino and Dr. John.