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It’s de-evolution, baby.
Dog Time 🐶 ⏰ Saturday at the Garner Arts Fest in Garnerville, NY - Pablo, Christian, Mike, Eric, Scott - freeform jams on a bridge
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I know this applies to some of you, showcase applications are open for Folk Alliance 2027...
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9 days ago
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New post: Where are all the music cooperatives?
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16 days ago
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i reviewed the gorgeous new album by the north carolina improv trio setting for
@pitchfork.com
(with a shout to
@longrally.bsky.social
's theory of the gorp-jazz continuum).
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Setting: Setting
Read Jesse Jarnow’s review of the album.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/setting-setting/
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A cache of stellar live Clean tapes on this week's Brian Turner Show + author Richard Langston who wrote the Clean biog _In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul_.
@bturneroverdrive.bsky.social
@eastvillageradio.bsky.social
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The Brian Turner Show On Evr Special With The Clean & Biographer Richard Langston, April 22, 2026
https://www.mixcloud.com/EastVillageRadio/the-brian-turner-show-on-evr-special-with-the-clean-biographer-richard-langston-april-22-2026/
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For some reason, first spring heat always reminds me of listening to Wilco and Wreckless Eric on the jukebox at Lakeside Lounge in the late '90s.
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Cool record.
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Jazz Realities No. 7…Music from Kyoto/Osaka and songs I heard in Kyoto: Keizo Noburi/Kazuo Matsushita, Katsura Mouri, 金属太古 & Sandersonia, Hijokaidan, Mirrors, Wynton Kelly Trio, Stan Getz, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Gato Barbieri, Charlie Parker & more.
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Jazz Realities w/ Scott McDowell #7
Scott McDowell headed to Japan recently, took in a number of shows, which he WhatsApp'd clips of to NQRA live in the moment, which was frankly jealousy-inducing, and also brought back a stack of recor...
https://www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-realities-w-scott-mcdowell-7/
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It’s marathon time! Support WFMU AND GET EXCELLENT SWAG
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WFMU-FM 91.1/Jersey City, NJ; 90.1/Hudson Valley, NY
https://wfmu.org
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Friends, the blog known as Doom & Gloom from the Tomb turns 17 years old today. Let's celebrate with something radically irrelevant.
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Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Fairport Convention - The Roxy, West Hollywood, California, April 24, 1989 Friends, the blog known as Doom & Gloom from the Tomb turns 17 years old today. Did I know on that fateful day back in March....
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/810176089795280896/fairport-convention-the-roxy-west-hollywood
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Observations of Deviance
3 months ago
“We’re Trying to Save Your Ass!” Sun Ra / Nuclear War Mega Mix (1982-1988) 🚨FIVE HOURS OF NOTHING BUT NUCLEAR WAR!🚨 Sat, Feb 28, 7-Midnight (ET)
@wfmu.bsky.social
DETAILS ▶️
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Loose memory popped into my head today. I remember when a dude in my poetry seminar in college submitted lyrics to Common's "I Used to Love H. E. R." as his own poem and the whole class workshopped it for two hours.
3 months ago
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New substack waxing about one of my favorite recordings in all of history.
open.substack.com/pub/jazzreal...
3 months ago
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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...
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Good Ol' Marble Sheep
Plus, a 3-hour Marble Sheep tape of blown-out Japanese psych, cosmic love chants, and post-Dead MIDI jams.
https://jazzrealities.substack.com/p/good-ol-marble-sheep
5 months ago
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Doubting Thomas
5 months ago
Ho-uh ho-uh ho-uh
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jesse jarnow
5 months ago
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...
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Just watched Licorice Pizza for the first time. What a wonderful flick.
5 months ago
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Need a miracle? In this economy?
5 months ago
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Rob Mitchum
5 months ago
Thank you
@longrally.bsky.social
for landing on the SML descriptor my brain has been struggling to find: "gorp jazz"
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Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML
"That granola and Birkenstock aura."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jazzrealities/p/gorp-jazz-and-the-rise-of-sml?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML + A Gorp Jazz Primer
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Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML
"That granola and Birkenstock aura."
https://jazzrealities.substack.com/p/gorp-jazz-and-the-rise-of-sml
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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...
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Jazz Realities w/ Scott McDowell #5
Arguably the best thing to come out of New Jersey since Wayne Shorter (in our opinion, like), Scott McDowell brings you an hour of jamfoolery from across the stylistic spectrum with a unifying thread ...
https://www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-realities-w-scott-mcdowell-5/
5 months ago
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I don’t think I’ll truly ever understand those people who “prioritize sleep.”
5 months ago
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jesse jarnow
5 months ago
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...
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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...
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6 months ago
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It's Hot Tuna Thursday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlwY...
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I See The Light - Hot Tuna | The Midnight Special
YouTube video by The Midnight Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlwY2Di2a9A
6 months ago
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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...
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6 months ago
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jesse jarnow
6 months ago
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?
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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...
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Jazz Realities w/ Scott McDowell #4
Scott McDowell—probably the slickest listener in the whole of New Jersey, if not on the entire East Coast—is deeper in the zone than most of us will ever be. Have you signed up to his Jazz Realities n...
https://www.mixcloud.com/NQRA/jazz-realities-w-scott-mcdowell-4/
6 months ago
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mikenoomin
7 months ago
Wrote a lil tribute to our late, great Donna Jean Godchaux, may she rest in peace... 🌹💀⚡️
nqra.live/donna-jean-g...
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Donna Jean Godchaux (Grateful Dead) obituary by Mike Newman for NQRA
NQRA DJ Mike Newman pays his respects to Donna Jean Godchaux of The Grateful Dead, who died on October 2nd 2025 in this personal obituary.
https://nqra.live/donna-jean-godchaux-obituary/
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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...
7 months ago
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Really enjoying The Lowdown especially once I figured out it’s like Bored to Death.
7 months ago
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Jazz Realities No. 2 playlist and listen links + "Is Dylan even on the stage, man?"
open.substack.com/pub/jazzreal...
8 months ago
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Was hoping to go see Phish for the first time since 1999 or something. Unsuccessful!
8 months ago
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WFMU
8 months ago
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).
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Upcoming Special Programs on WFMU
http://www.wfmu.org/upcoming
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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...
8 months ago
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NQRA
9 months ago
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!"
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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
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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy)
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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.
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jesse jarnow
9 months ago
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...
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NQRA
9 months ago
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...
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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.
9 months ago
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This is good news. For once.
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9 months ago
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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.
9 months ago
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Check out this lineup!!!!!!!! 🤌🏻
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9 months ago
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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...
9 months ago
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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-...
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The long and remarkable career of Steve Swallow
a 3 hour interview and some thoughts
https://substack.com/home/post/p-169252114
9 months ago
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Refretting Che Chen's guitar to make quarter tones 🎈https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp00_DWk9-4
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Mauritanian Guitar Refretting, Nouakchott
YouTube video by osirhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp00_DWk9-4
9 months ago
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Well she’ll die Lord she’ll die Grazed by roses Running wild And she knows That it’s quite All right
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9 months ago
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Hans Chew
10 months ago
“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
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She's A Seer
YouTube video by Hans Chew
https://youtu.be/n7sQTKaFtUs
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The world is a vampire—
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