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Roots
Jazz, soul, and funk serve as the anchor for modern sound.
Soulful Samples
WSBH Radio Presents:
Soulful Samples,
Where Coltrane Meets Lagos.
A listening experience connecting the jazz, soul, and funk that shaped Black music with today’s hip-hop and Afrobeats.
From Coltrane to Kendrick to Wizkid, hear how musical ideas travel across generations, genres, and borders. Smooth, fresh, and full of soul, this is a journey from the original to the modern.
Listen to Soulful Samples
Listening Experience
Press Play and Follow the Connections.
Listen for the familiar vibrations moving from jazz and soul into hip-hop and Afrobeats. Each record adds another piece to a soundtrack that crosses generations and borders.
Across Time & Geography
Sound Travels. Soul Remains.
Black music has always moved. Jazz, soul, funk, pop, hip-hop, and Afrobeats carry familiar rhythms, innovations, and expressions across time and geography.
Soulful Samples follows those connections from America to Nigeria and beyond, creating a shared listening experience rooted in culture, memory, and community.
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Samples
Hip-hop and neo-soul carry past sounds into future stories.
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Rhythms
Afrobeats reconnects the conversation across the diaspora.
WSBH Radio
Listen. Elevate. Evolve.
Experience an arranged journey through the records, rhythms, and relationships that keep Black music moving.