A Very Questlove Christmas

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Questlove has put together a playlist for us of some of his favorite Christmas recordings. Questlove is co-founder of the The Roots, which is among other things, is the house band for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He won an Oscar this year for his documentary Summer of Soul.

You can find Questlove's Spotify playlist here: https://spoti.fi/3WeZhfd

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0:00.0	This is fresh air.
0:01.1	I'm Terry Gross.
0:02.6	This is a moment everyone on our show has been looking forward to.
0:06.3	It's a Questlove Christmas.
0:08.4	A mere Questlove Thompson has returned to our show this time with some Christmas songs
0:12.9	to play for us.
0:14.0	Kind of like a Questlove Christmas mixtape, the annotated version.
0:19.2	It's an honor to have him choose recordings for us.
0:21.3	In addition to his many credits, Questlove is perhaps the most famous, popular, and in-demand
0:26.8	DJ, he even DJed a party for Obama.
0:30.3	This year, Questlove won an Oscar for his documentary Summer of Soul, in which he featured
0:35.1	film performances from the Overlook 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which was nicknamed
0:40.9	the Black Woodstock and featured performers like Stevie Wonder, Slion the Family Stone,
0:45.6	Gladys Knight and the Pips, Nina Simone and Mahalia Jackson.
0:49.6	Summer of Soul won a Grammy for a Best Music Film.
0:53.0	In 2021, Questlove was the Music Director for the Oscar ceremony.
0:57.4	He co-founded the band The Roots.
0:59.2	He's the band's drummer.
1:00.6	It's the house band for the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon.
1:03.6	He was a producer of the original cast recording of Hamilton.
1:06.9	He's written several books, including music his history, and now is involved with several
1:11.4	projects around plant-based, environmentally sound, tasty food.
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