World Cafe Playlist for 09/30/2025
Kassa Overall joins host Stephen Kallao
Kassa Overall loves jazz. He also loves hip hop. On the bandleader and drummer’s new album, he marries those worlds to offer a unique spin on 90’s rap. CREAM reimagines classics from Wu-Tang Clan, Outkast, Dr. Dre, and more through Kassa’s jazz lens. Kassa Overall joins World Cafe to talk about his unique approach to covering these iconic songs, and we’ll hear live performances in studio.
Today’s Playlist
Joni Mitchell “Coyote” Hejira
Kassa Overall “C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Digable Planets “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Kassa Overall “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Busta Rhymes “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” When Disaster Strikes…
Seals & Crofts “Sweet Green Fields” Get Closer
Eddie Harris “Freedom Jazz Dance” Presenting Eddie Harris
Kassa Overall “Freedom Jazz Dance” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Khruangbin “Maria Tambien” Con Todo El Mundo
Dream Warriors “My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style” And Now The Legacy Begins
The Solsonics “Jazz In The Present Tense” Jazz In The Present Tense
Malo “Suavecito” Malo’s Greatest Hits
Mt. Joy “Lucy” Hope We Have Fun
Wilco “Impossible Germany” Sky Blue Sky
Spoon “The Book I Write” Stranger Than Fiction (soundtrack)
Hour Two
Dave Matthews Band “Tripping Billies” Crash
Caamp “Mistakes” Copper Changes Color
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “Over And Over Again (Lost and Found)” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats “Call Me (Whatever You Like)” South of Here
Macy Gray “I Try” On How Life Is
Bon Iver “From” Sable, Fable
Lianne La Havas “Weird Fishes” Lianne La Havas
Clairo “Bags” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Tori Amos “Silent All These Years” Recorded Live for World Cafe
The Belair Lip Bombs “Hey You” Again
Vampire Weekend “Holiday” Contra
Wet Leg “mangetout” moisturizer
Meg Myers “Numb” Take Me To The Disco
Iron and Wine & Ben Bridwell “I Want to Know What Love Is” Making Good Time EP
Paul McCartney “Every Night” McCartney
Vampire Weekend “Classical” Only God Was Above Us
The Police “Can’t Stand Losing You” Outlandos D’amour