Hard Times and Hot Jams

The song of the summer we deserve, and more.

Among this week’s music selections: A soul jam that’s been haunting me lately (in a good way); an extremely chill ethio-jazz-influenced album; a(nother) farewell album from a hip hop legend; a rising jazz trio out of Philly celebrating vibraphone grooves; a popular prairie-psych group from Colorado that recently passed through the Hudson Valley on a qui…