| Global JazzWire Playlist | ||||||||
| 23 August 2008 | ||||||||
| Nationality | Artist | Song Title | Composer | CD Title | Rotation | Label | ||
| HOUR ONE | ||||||||
| Mali | Habib Koite & Bamada | N'tesse | H.Koite | Afriki | Heavy | 2 | 4:31 | Cumbancha |
| USA | Chicago Afrobeat Project | Fix and Release | CabP | (A) Move to Silent Unrest | Light | 5 | 5:28 | CABP |
| Mali | Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orch. | Tapha Niang | T.Diabate/M.Diabate | Boulevard de L'Independance | Heavy | 8 | 6:51 | World Circuit |
| Senegal | Orchestra Baobab | Beni Baraale | Bembeya Jazz de Guinea/arr. B.Attisso | Made In Dakar | Light | 3 | 5:51 | World Circuit |
| India/Hawaii | Debashish Bhattacharya & Bob Brozman | Bana Mali | B. Brozman, arr. D.B. & B.B. | Mahima | - | 6 | 3:47 | Riverboat |
| India | Vijaya Anand | Dheem Thana | V. Anand | Dance Raja Dance | - | 9 | 4:17 | Luaka Bop |
| USA | Verdell Primeaux & Terry Hanks | Four Harmonized Peyote Songs – Set One | Stories Told | - | 1 | 7:33 | Canyon | |
| USA | Various artists | Navajo Ribbon Dance | Trad. | Hopi Social Dance Songs | - | 6 | 6:08 | Canyon |
| Martinique | Kali | Tambou Dan Tche Nou | Kali | Caribbean Playground (V) | - | 3 | 3:01 | Putumayo |
| Belize | Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective | Watina | B.Martinez, J.Miranda, A.Palacio, I.Duran | Watina | Medium | 1 | 4:43 | Cumbancha |
| Cuba | Luis Mario Ochoa Quintet | Momentos Cubanos | L.M.Ochoa | Momentos Cubanos | - | 4 | 4:01 | Cuban Music Productions |
| HOUR TWO | ||||||||
| Cuba | El Lele de los Van Van | High and Dry | Radiohead | Rhythms del Mundo | - | 15 | 5:12 | APE Vision |
| Jamaica | Sugar Minott | A Just Rasta | Sugar Minott | International | - | 4 | 3:59 | RAS |
| Jamaica | Foundation | Friends | Foundation | One Shirt | - | 10 | 4:00 | Island Jamaica |
| Jamaica | Black Uhuru | Word Sound | G.Dennis | Now | - | 9 | 4:01 | Mesa |
| Jamaica | Dennis Brown | Together Brothers | D.Brown | The Promised Land | - | 9 | 4:18 | Blood & Fire |
| Zimbabwe | Oliver Mtukudzi | Pindurai Mambo | O. Mtukudzi | Paivepo | - | 1 | 6:16 | Putumayo |
| Mali | Vieux Farka Toure | Wosoubour | V.F.Toure | Vieux Farka Toure | Medium | 8 | 3:36 | World Village |
| Mali | Tinariwen | Cler Achel | Ibrahim ag Alhabib | Aman Iman | Light | 1 | 4:25 | World Village |
| Dem.Rep.Congo | Samba Mapangala & Orch. Virunga | Malako | S. Mapangala | Virunga Volcano | - | 1 | 9:03 | Earthworks |
| USA | Tim Armacost | Nimble Pani | T.Armacost | Rhythm & Transformation | - | 2 | 7:31 | artistShare |