New substack waxing about one of my favorite recordings in all of history. open.substack.com/pub/jazzreal...

New post: Good Ol' Marble Sheep + a 3-hour Marble Sheep tape of blown-out Japanese psych, cosmic love chants, and post-Dead MIDI jams. jazzrealities.substack.com/p/good-ol-ma...

Ho-uh ho-uh ho-uh

i was so bloody excited to surf the winter airwaves & have my first full @wfmu.bsky.social fill-in slot since september that i didn't play (much) holiday music last night, but still tried to stay seasonally, uh, vibrational. archive/playlist: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Just watched Licorice Pizza for the first time. What a wonderful flick.

Need a miracle? In this economy?

Thank you @longrally.bsky.social for landing on the SML descriptor my brain has been struggling to find: "gorp jazz"

Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML + A Gorp Jazz Primer jazzrealities.substack.com/p/gorp-jazz-...

Jazz Realities No. 5 on NQRA @nqra.bsky.social : f/ Brother Wallace, Agnes Martian, Good Flying Birds, Sharp Pins, Neil Young, Harry Christelis, TLDR & Peter Knight, Yusef Mumin, SML, The Early, Things of this Nature, Kalia Vandever, Mark Fell & Pat Thomas. Listen: www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-re...

I don’t think I’ll truly ever understand those people who “prioritize sleep.”

dub: a step by step guide, by dennis matumbi/bovell, december '77, via this wonderful stack of '70s reggae/dub coverage posted by @simonreynolds.bsky.social: musicpresspantheon.blogspot.com/2025/09/soun...

Jeez, you just lodged a forgotten memory. They had a real cool band for a hot minute called Orleans Gunn with @hanschew.bsky.social and Dave Lerner @trummors.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhh...

It's Hot Tuna Thursday www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlwY...

Wow, cool. Long time ago! Sadly: RIP Marc Orleans and RIP Michael Evans, two true originals and both stellar musicians. Unreal. Tom Carter still kicking! Sesh is available here @wfmu.bsky.social wfmu.org/playlists/sh... and here freemusicarchive.org/music/Eleven...

important jazz lore research by @longrally.bsky.social in the newest issue of @wfmu.bsky.social's LCD. who was the infamous jam interrupter known as The Demon? free jazz pioneer or just a shitty sax player?

JAZZ REALITIES No. 4: Music from LA Woodwind Skill Share, Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary, Equipment Pointed Ankh, Green Cosmos, Susan Christie, Razen, Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders, Descending Pharoahs, Mark Fell, Tom Skinner, Niklas Persson Trio + more. www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-re...

Wrote a lil tribute to our late, great Donna Jean Godchaux, may she rest in peace... 🌹💀⚡️ nqra.live/donna-jean-g... @nqra.bsky.social

New Jazz Realities post: Scott LaFaro's bass alchemy, the musician/instrument spriritual connection + new Tacoma Park cassette + @nqra.bsky.social Jazz Realities No. 3 playlist & archive. Listen while you read. open.substack.com/pub/jazzreal...

Really enjoying The Lowdown especially once I figured out it’s like Bored to Death.

Jazz Realities No. 2 playlist and listen links + "Is Dylan even on the stage, man?" open.substack.com/pub/jazzreal...

Was hoping to go see Phish for the first time since 1999 or something. Unsuccessful!

Today on WFMU: On Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg, a live set from Organs Obsolete aka Brooklyn's Richard Hoffman. Hoffman will be bringing his brand of bass-driven psychedelic pulses and left-field industrial electronics to the Blurred FMU airwaves (10 p.m. ET).

This is coming up in 15 min and it's gonna be amazing. Join album producers as we delve into the process and backstory of the landmark release of Woody Guthrie’s home tapes. folk-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Scott McDowell shows are abstract paintings of global sound globules that, when you stand 10 feet back and listen to them whole, just make sense. Listen up close for yr fave tunes by D'Angelo, Ryan Davis, or Paul Bley. Or pull up an easy chair, stare into the void, and be like, "It's a sailboat!"

Subscribe to Jazz Realities the newsletter arm of the new radio show, Jazz Realities, on NQRA Radio. it's where I'll post shows and playlists when they are released jazzrealities.substack.com 1/2

I’m finally digging into this episode this morning and it’s wonderful. I have a lot of these albums but not all, and it’s a delight to hear a bit of the behind-the-scenes on the whole thing.

on this week’s "blues for allah" deadcast, @sg-marshall.bsky.social & i attempt to untie “slipknot!” & explore the grateful dead’s harmonic & personal ambiguity in early 1975. were they even a band or a “more or less permanent musical association” as jerry garcia put it? www.dead.net/deadcast/blu...

You may be familiar with Scott McDowell as the host of The Long Rally at WFMU or as a former producer at MTV's 120 Minutes. Either way, Jazz Realities operates as a glimpse into the McDowell subconscious. Stretch out on the couch and tell us about your mother at nqra.live/jazz-realiti...

Swimming is one of life’s great pleasures. But I can only think of one song about swimming and that’s “The Swimming Song” by Louden Wainwright III.

This is good news. For once.

What about starting another record label primarily so I would have something to mail to my friends. Not a great business plan, but very satisfying. Mailing things to your friends is great.

Check out this lineup!!!!!!!! 🤌🏻

Brothers and sisters, I’ve got a new show on @nqra_radio at nqra.live called Jazz Realities. Check it out, it’s Friday night. nqra.live/jazz-realiti...

Friends, you've done me a disservice by not telling me sooner about this 3-hour convo with Steve Swallow on Joel Harrison's Guitar Talk. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Refretting Che Chen's guitar to make quarter tones 🎈https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp00_DWk9-4

Well she’ll die Lord she’ll die Grazed by roses Running wild And she knows That it’s quite All right

“She’s A Seer”, video for side one closer of the forthcoming album Land Of Dreams, available digitally and on LP September 5th. Link to order in bio. youtu.be/n7sQTKaFtUs

The world is a vampire—

Got a short piece about The Demon, a mythical figure at the birth of bebop, in the new issue of LCD @wfmu.bsky.social’s program guide/magazine. Shout out to editor @kendraplex.bsky.social 🎈

I’ve been absolutely rinsing the Ryan Davis record, a marvel of architectural songcraft.

still lotsa great resources for finding live music in nyc! - @nightafternight.bsky.social: nightafternight.substack.com - @dadastrain.bsky.social: dadastrain.substack.com - cap'n neddyo's tapped.in app - nyc noise: nyc-noise.com - nyc jazz record: nycjazzrecord.com

I was born in Illinoize.

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Not more Eddie Vedder. Please.

Makes me want to actually go to a bar.

The George Mitchell Collection is one of the great bargains in music, and that's on a regular day. But there's a sale at Fat Possum and it's half off, $15 for 7-discs of some of the greatest American music ever. Every home should own one. fatpossum.com/products/the...

Cant believe someone made this open.spotify.com/playlist/2WM...

New Hans Chew song now + new album Land of Dreams coming Sept 5. 💫

I have a friend just like this guy. I brought him to see the Mekons—huge success.

I interviewed Ozzy a long time ago after an Ozzfest show. He came off stage, showered, and emerged dressed in a black cloak. The dressing room had a giant throne with skulls and was draped in purple velvet with candelabras around. He clearly traveled w/ this set-up to better receive his many guests.