Favoriting Music For a Free World with Dave Sewelson: Playlists and Archives

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Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.

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  • Favoriting October 26, 2024: Ellen Christi a Jazz vocalist, composer, sound designer, and arranger joins us to talk about Cereal Music—a spoken word collaboration with William Parker. | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 19, 2024: Thomas Hutchings is a Grammy-nominated saxophonist, music producer, and creative professional who has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, while scoring music for short films and recording for film and television. | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 31, 2024: Electric Lazy Susan with Nogood Nick filled in. Listen here.
  • Favoriting July 20, 2024: Tracie Morris is a writer, performer and scholar from Brooklyn NY. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 13, 2024: Phillip Johnston A saxophonist, composer and arranger of both jazz and new music, Phillip has been a significant figure in the underground music scene of New York’s downtown since the beginning of the 1980s. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 6, 2024: Pianist, composer, & bandleader Mara Rosenbloom has been called “a whole hearted poet of the piano,” – she is a builder & a synthesist; a fiercely lyrical composer & improviser (All About Jazz). | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 18, 2024: Stork filled in. Listen here.
  • Favoriting May 4, 2024: Based in Paris, Théo Girard is a bass player and composer with his own record label who loves to travel the world to discover the artists who bring creative music to life. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting April 27, 2024: The Laughing Clock filled in. Listen here.
  • Favoriting April 20, 2024: Meg Okura is a Grammy-nominated violinist, composer, and the founder of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting April 13, 2024: Weasel Walter (first name, last name) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser best known for leading the seminal punk-jazz/no-wave/brutal-prog band The Flying Luttenbachers. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting April 6, 2024: David Haney is a remarkable pianist with a wealth of new ideas, and the ability to communicate those ideas to a wide audience. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 24, 2024: Musician/Multi-Disciplinary Artivist/Event Curator/Journalist Rose Tang only allows one label, “Tiananman Massacre survivor.” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 17, 2024: Pianist and composer Scott R. Looney has always been interested in the creation and performance of compelling sounds across a broad spectrum of contemporary, improvised, and experimental music | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 10, 2024: Derrik Jordan is a musician, composer and the producer and host of The World Fusion Show, a show that features interviews and video clips of World Fusion composers and musicians. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 3, 2024: Fred Moten, cultural theorist, poet, and scholar, lives and works in New York City. His recent projects include a poetry collection, Perennial Fashion Presence Falling and a record album, Fred Moten/Brandon López/Gerald Cleaver | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 27, 2024: Anna Webber is a flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 20, 2024: Bonnie Kane and John Loggia are a duo of master improvisors burning through the realms of noise, psych, free jazz, and avantgarde, bringing you out of your brain and into your heart where the sound is felt and does it’s most needed work… | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 13, 2024: Shelley Hirsch, a Vocal Artist, Performer, Composer, Storyteller, Interdisciplinary Artist has been pushing boundaries with her unique vocal art and performance work, drawing on her life experiences, her memory, her vivid imagination for decades. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 6, 2024: Claire Daly stops by to yak. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 30, 2023: Rent Romus is an Emmy award winning saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, music producer, and community activist who currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 23, 2023: Huda Asfour, a musician and biomedical engineer, transcends boundaries in her work. Her musical journey began in conservatories in Tunisia and Palestine, culminating in collaborations worldwide. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 16, 2023: The enigmatic TJ Milan saxophonist and more. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 9, 2023: I am my own guest today. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 2, 2023: WFMU welcomes back On Ka’a Davis for more conversation and a set of live music both in solo and in duo with our esteemed host, Dave Sewelson. New releases to announce from Davis as both a leader and in collaborations. Recent book too! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 25, 2023: Wayne Horvitz, composer, pianist, and electronic musician is in NYC for a Stone residency from November 29 thru December 2 joins us for an afternoon of music and conversation. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 18, 2023: Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. For this show he'll bring his favorite (and obscure) recordings of the German Jazz Avantgarde, and talk about growing up in Germany playing Jazz in the 70s and 80s. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 4, 2023: Drummer, composer, and poet William Hooker joins us to talk about his latest release, Flesh and Bones. The album marks his third full length effort for Org Music, following “Big Moon” (2021) and “Symphonie of Flowers” (2019). | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 28, 2023: Robert Pepper and Alex Lozupone discuss the legacy and impact left behind by David Tamura, who passed earlier this year on June 23, and listen to a wide breadth of his musical recordings. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 21, 2023: Tenor and soprano saxophonist, improviser and composer Catherine Sikora was first electrified by the sound of air vibrating in a metal tube when, as a child, she heard the wind playing tones and overtones in a metal gate. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 14, 2023: Memphis based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger David Collins has always been drawn to the experimental side of music, creating sounds based around texture, color, thematic development, and interplay. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 7, 2023: By the time alto saxophonist Bobby Zankel moved to Philadelphia in 1975 he had already been part of free-jazz innovator Cecil Taylor’s “Unit Core Ensemble,” and had earned accolades from Jazz Times and Downbeat magazines. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 30, 2023: Dan Bodah filled in. Listen here.
  • Favoriting September 23, 2023: Jeff Pearring - An artist whose focus is on pairing different line-ups dedicated to the expression of emotion through sound, to share a musical journey. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 16, 2023: Vocal Fry with Dan Bodah filled in. Listen here.
  • Favoriting September 9, 2023: Live from the Rhythm in the Kitchen Festival at Prime Produce at 424 West 54th St NYC featuring performances by Toadal Package and Pain Exchange. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 24, 2023: Improvisers Stephen Gauci-sax, Jeong Lim Yang-bass, James Paul Nadien-drums and Kevin Shea-drums join us to spin discs, improvise and talk about the Improvised Music Series at the Main Drag on Wednesdays in Williamsburg. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 17, 2023: Jen Shyu  is a multilingual vocalist, composer, producer, educator, dancer, theater maker, multi-instrumentalist. Che Chen is a creative musician and multi-instrumentalist interested in the overlapping fields of intuitive music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 10, 2023: Patricia Brennan is a vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer. Melanie Dyer performs and composes in creative, improvised and through-composed music spheres. Devin B Waldman is a saxophonist, composer and music producer. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 3, 2023: Mike Reed is a musician, composer, bandleader and arts presenter based in Chicago and Patricia Nicholson is founder of Arts For Art and Vision Festival, dancer, poet and activist, eddy kwon is a violinist, vocalist, and interdisciplinary artist. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 27, 2023: Marc Edwards is what they call a powerhouse drummer. He has played and recorded with artists such as Cecil Taylor, Charles Gayle, and David S. Ware. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 6, 2023: Nora Stanley is a New York-based saxophonist and composer whose interests and work live at the intersection of composed and improvised music as well as acoustic and electronic music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting March 25, 2023: Pat Irwin has spent over 4 decades pushing the boundaries of popular music with his soundtracks for some of the most recognized and popular shows in television including Dexter: New Blood, Nurse Jackie, Bored To Death and scores for animation. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting March 18, 2023: David Haney presents a new record label - Cadence Media Records. Historical and new releases featuring Julian Priester, Roswell Rudd, Buell Neidlinger, David Haney, Gunter Hampel, and many more. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting March 11, 2023: Claire Daly is back to harass Dave and his audience, including a sneak preview of a new recording. Come laugh with us, listen to great music, and while we're at it, we'll ask you for money, but you'll feel like it's just a regular show. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting March 4, 2023: Israeli born and raised trombonist and composer Reut Regev has been out in the New York scene creating and exploring music for over 20 years. Catch her March 8th at the Rahway Public Library, and March 30th at ibeam in Brooklyn. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 25, 2023: John Pietaro is a writer, poet, percussionist and front person of the Red Microphone. His latest book and the band’s latest album, “A Bleeding in Black Leather”, are being launched on Feb 28 at Pangea. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 18, 2023: Mara Rosenbloom - With an interest in building community by encouraging honest expression and interactive dialogue through music - human connection has been a focus of Rosenbloom's work throughout the past decade. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 11, 2023: Steve Holtje has been running legendary indie record label ESP-Disk' for a decade, and has been in the music business since 1990 as performer, journalist, publicist, and label manager. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 4, 2023: Kevin Ramsay is a composer, producer, recording/mixing/mastering/sound engineer, and musician on several critically acclaimed international albums. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 28, 2023: Alex Greene is a musician, anthropologist, and writer based in Memphis, TN. His musical work encompasses many genres, including garage rock, jazz, exotica, electronic soundscapes, musique concrète, and soundtracks for film. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 21, 2023: Daro Behroozi is a multi-instrumentalist who performs, records, composes and arranges with the brass band Lucky Chops, as well as in Iranian, Arabic, and improvised music groups based in NYC. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 14, 2023: Joseph Bowie, trombonist and founder of the punk/funk supergroup Defunkt. He believes in FUNK and music that makes people move with the creative flavor of the Avant-garde always injected and promotes freedom and fight against injustice in his lyrics. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 31, 2022: Cornetist Stephen Haynes returns for a linked two-part conversation about Bill Dixon, his music and visual art, and Haynes' own music. This is in support of Haynes' January 10th performance at the closing of The Art of Counterpoint exhibition at Zürcher | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 24, 2022: Ritual Music with Lady Chanticleer filled in. Find the show here.
  • Favoriting December 17, 2022: Bobby Watson sits among the pantheon of present-day jazz greats. A multi-GRAMMY®-nominated saxophonist, composer, bandleader, educator and producer. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 10, 2022: Sandy Ewen is an experimental guitarist, artist and architect based in Brooklyn NY, Ewen's guitar playing playing is centered around found objects and extended techniques. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 3, 2022: Douglas Ewart, Oliver Lake and Stephen Haynes join us to talk about The Art of Counterpoint, 8 Musicians Make Art now on display at Zürcher Gallery in New York City until January 10. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 19, 2022: Nick Lyons is an improvising alto saxophonist and composer from New York City. Settled in Brooklyn in 2005. He performs as a leader of eponymous trio with John Wagner and Pete Swanson | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 12, 2022: William Hooker (drummer,composer and poet) joins us to talk about his upcoming performance of "The Silver Fleece" at Roulette on November 13. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 5, 2022: Che Chen has been an energetic presence in NYC’s experimental underground as a band leader, improviser and show organizer since moving here in the early 2000s. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 30, 2022: Neighbor’s Noise fills in through August. Find today's show here.
  • Favoriting July 23, 2022: Dave is off until September. Starting June 30 Neighbor's Noise with Jesse Kaminsky will be filling in. His playlist page is here. | See the playlist
  • Favoriting July 16, 2022: Are We There Yet? with Tamar filled in. Find the show here.
  • Favoriting July 9, 2022: For pioneering NYC composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Kitty Brazelton, music is personal, and the personal is universal. The irrepressible Brazelton has always championed music’s power to unite—across genre, across tradition, across language. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 2, 2022: Ahmed Abdullah is a trumpeter, composer, and educator, was a prominent member of the Sun Ra Arkestra, currently leads the band Diaspora, is the Artistic Director of Sista's Place and teaches at the New School. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 25, 2022: Atmospheric Music Sound Sculptor In Residence and Experimental Music Artist, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is a free jazz bass player, ambient music noise artist and improvisational avant garde jazz musician | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 18, 2022: LaDonna Smith is a violinist, violist, vocalist and musical impresario pioneering the field of free improvisation in America as an art form capable of ecstatic and explosive emotions, compositional clarity, lyricism and raw human expression. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 11, 2022: Robert Dick has utterly dispensed with preconceptions about what a flutist should sound like and what a flutist should play. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 28, 2022: George Cartwright is a Minnesota-based composer, performer, bandleader, producer and musical collaborator, with a prolific career spanning over 30 years. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 21, 2022: gabby fluke-mogul is a New York based improviser, composer, & educator. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 14, 2022: Baritonists Dave Sewelson and Claire Daly get sewious about music. No horsing around this time. Don't miss the fun. Low notes rule the world, but we will surprise you with some high tones, too | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 7, 2022: I'm so psyched to do this with Dave, my meditation buddy from so many years ago. Aram Bajakian is a guitar player who lived in New York for just over a decade but has been based in Vancouver for the past 9 years. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting April 30, 2022: Saxist Chad Fowler and drummer Steve Hirsh are half of a 4tet with pianist Eri Yamamoto and bassist William Parker. Their new album, Sparks, was/will be released on Mahakala Music the day before this broadcast. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting April 16, 2022: Irene filled in. Find the show here.
  • Favoriting April 9, 2022: Mike L. filled in. Find the show here.
  • Favoriting April 2, 2022: Dafna Naphtali is a singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician who composes/performs experimental, interactive electro-acoustic music, drawing on a wide-ranging musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting March 26, 2022: Composer and pianist David Haney, and multi instrumentalist, Dave Storrs, present a revolutionary way to explore improvised music. The music from today's selections was recorded live from the amazing “Sound Shack,” in Corvallis, Oregon – the room that is | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting March 19, 2022: Cooper-Moore is a composer-improviser, instrumentalist, designer and builder of musical instruments, and music educator, living and working in New York City. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting March 12, 2022: Sachal Vasandani is recognized for his singular voice, with a tone and unique phrasing that mark him as one of the most compelling artists on the scene today. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting March 5, 2022: Since moving to New York in 2002, Sam Sadigursky continues to make a mark as both a leader and sideman across a broad spectrum of musical landscapes. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 29, 2022: Sara Schoenbeck visits the show to talk about inspirations and approaching improvisation from the double reeds chair. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 22, 2022: Detroit-bred, New York City-based songstress Felice Rosser plays dub and soul. Rosser’s voice is dark and smooth like molasses. She’s also a wicked bass player. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 15, 2022: Moscow born, three-time Grammy Award winning acoustic and electric bassist, composer and arranger, Boris Kozlov has been on New York and international jazz scenes for the past 35 years | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 8, 2022: California native Michael Vatcher, now residing in Amsterdam, quickly progressed from hitting household furniture to taking vibraphone and snare drum lessons as a child. Now he is a world renowned drummer | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 15, 2021: Paul Shapiro, saxophonist/composer is best known for his recordings on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 11, 2021: Eri Yamamoto has established herself as one of jazz's most original and compelling pianists and composers. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock has said, “My hat’s off to her... already she’s found her own voice.” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 4, 2021: Known for his spirited, highly imaginative, and innovative piano technique, Joel Futterman is an internationally recognized veteran pioneer into the frontiers of spontaneous, improvised music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 30, 2021: Kaleigh Wilder is an improviser and sound sculptor. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 23, 2021: Once mentored by Elvin Jones, Chicago-based drummer Jimmy Bennington celebrates over a quarter of a century in the music field... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 16, 2021: Joe McPhee is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, conceptualist, and theoretician. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 9, 2021: Damon Smith is a master of bowed bass and well versed in the various incarnations of Jazz and free improvisation getting around playing with a wealth of international musicians | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting October 2, 2021: John Dikeman is an American saxophonist currently residing in Amsterdam. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, John’s playing runs the gamut of improvised music and technique. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 25, 2021: New York baritone saxophonist Claire Daly returns to Dave Sewelson's show for some rollicking fun, celebrating the life of John Coltrane and George Garzone (who both have birthdays on Sept 23rd), and some other notable artists.. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 18, 2021: Perhaps best known as a composer, improviser, sculptor and maker of masks and instruments, Douglas R. Ewart is also an educator, lecturer, arts organization consultant and all around visionary | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 11, 2021: Patrick Holmes from Austin,Texas. Clarinetist primarily self taught but has studied with Sabir Mateen,Andriy Milavsky and Connie Crothers. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 4, 2021: David Haney is a remarkable pianist with a wealth of new ideas, and the ability to communicate those ideas to a wide audience. Haney studied composition for six years with the great Czech composer, Tomas Svoboda. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 31, 2021: In this visit, Tracie Morris goes deep into the 1970s archives to chat and play sides of interactions between spoken word and lush music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 24, 2021: Kevin Corcoran is a Bay Area based drummer and percussionist who also works with field recording, sound installation and video. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 17, 2021: Allan Chase is a jazz saxophonist, composer, and college educator. He has performed jazz and improvised music since 1974. He studied ethnomusicology at Tufts University where he wrote a book-length thesis on the music of Sun Ra. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 10, 2021: On Ka’a Davis emerged onto the scene of modern creative music makers perhaps being recognized at first by his recordings with the Don Ayler Septet. Davis guitared with the Sun Ra Arkestra leaving his contribution to the band with recordings and concerts. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting July 3, 2021: The Brooklyn-based noise-jazz violinist Sana Nagano often finds herself at the center of the storm. As other instruments crash and careen around her, her assuredly melodic violin works to ground and stabilize the overall sound. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 26, 2021: Chad Taylor (b. 1973) is a composer, educator, percussionist and scholar who is a co-founder of the Chicago Underground ensembles. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 19, 2021: Nick Gianni is a multi-instrumentalist who began performing at the age of 15 as an accompanist for an Avant Garde Dance troupe. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 12, 2021: Jim Ryan is a multi-instrumentalist born of the Jazz tradition focusing on flute and saxophone. He began playing in Paris, France in the late sixties during the Free Jazz boom. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting June 5, 2021: Saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist Marty Ehrlich is celebrating over 40 years in the nexus of creative music centered in New York City. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 29, 2021: Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez is a singer/composer based in Brooklyn, New York. Born into a family of musicians, music was Raina’s first language and it runs deep within her veins. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 22, 2021: Shoko Nagai is a versatile musical artist who improvises and performs with world-renowned musicians on piano and accordion and composes original scores for films and live performances. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 15, 2021: Aron Namenwirth is a Brooklyn guitarist. His current associates in crime include: Daniel Carter, Luisa Muhr, Ayumi Ishito, Eric Plaks, Yutaka Takahashi, Zach Swanson, and Jon Panikkar in a group called Playfield. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 8, 2021: Peter Kuhn, a clarinetist-saxophonist and Zen priest joins us from San Diego. “Music is one of the healing forces of the universe. Creative music opens the mind and heart. Listening deeply we dwell in the present moment and are free of all afflictions.” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting May 1, 2021: Ambassador of Jazz, freeform jazz artist, drummer and vocalist Bobby Kapp is an international treasure. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 27, 2021: Thomas Sayers Ellis co-founded The Dark Room Collective (1989) and Heroes Are Gang Leaders (2014), a Free Jazz literary band of musicians and writers who were awarded the American Book Award for Oral Literature in 2018. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 20, 2021: Rachel Housle is a drummer, percussionist, vocalist, and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Drawn both to improvising and playing music with a strong sense of groove, her performance career spans a wide range of styles. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 13, 2021: Rodrigo Amado is a musician and photographer based in Lisbon. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 6, 2021: William Parker is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 30, 2021: Judith Insell is an improvising violist, orchestral musician, as well as an experienced arts educator and administrator. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 23, 2021: Gerald Cleaver is one of the New York jazz scene’s leading drummer and composers, who covers a wide range of stylistic ground. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 9, 2021: Dave Storrs, multi instrumentalist and founder of Louie Records and pianist David Haney present improvised music recorded at the amazing Sound Shack in Corvallis, Oregon in addition to recordings by Daivd Haney which feature amazing artists | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 2, 2021: Nik Francis is a drummer based in the Washington DC area. He has also performed as a soloist, incorporating electronics and percussion. Visit http://topology.bandcamp.com/ to hear Nik’s music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 26, 2020: Karen Borca is the only Bassoonist who has made a mark in Avant-Garde Jazz and Free Jazz. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 19, 2020: Lisa Sokolov is a NYC based inspirational singer, composer and educator. Her devotion to singing as a path is contained within her newly published book “Embodied VoiceWork: Beyond Singing” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 12, 2020: Saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Mike McGinnis is a musical explorer unbound by stylistic barriers; unwaveringly individual, curious, and open-minded. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 7, 2020: Jamie Saft is a virtuoso pianist, keyboardist/ multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer living in Upstate New York. He has collaborated with an eclectic variety of notable artists. Saft leads the New Zion Trio and the Jamie Saft Trio and Quartet. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting December 5, 2020: Amirtha Kidambi is an NYC based composer-performer, improviser, educator, activist and organizer invested in counter-hegemonic music and political work. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 28, 2020: Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 21, 2020: David Haney “One of the most inventive pianists in the USA…”–Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 14, 2020: Brandon Lopez is a New York-based composer and bassist working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 7, 2020: Angelo Branford is a guitar player, composer and educator leading and participating in many types of musical aggregations | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 29, 2020: James Brandon Lewis is a critically acclaimed saxophonist, composer, recording artist and educator | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 22, 2020: David Dichelle filled in.
  • Favoriting August 15, 2020: Irene filled in.
  • Favoriting August 8, 2020: Amina Claudine Myers, Pianist, Organist, Vocalist, Composer, Master Improvisationalist, Actress and Educator. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting August 1, 2020: Baritone saxophonist Claire Daly takes time out from her busy pandemic isolation to shoot the breeze with Dave, in this feel-good hit of the summer. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

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