Scott McDowell
@longrally.bsky.social
It’s de-evolution, baby.
New substack waxing about one of my favorite recordings in all of history. open.substack.com/pub/jazzreal...
February 11, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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...
Good Ol' Marble Sheep
Plus, a 3-hour Marble Sheep tape of blown-out Japanese psych, cosmic love chants, and post-Dead MIDI jams.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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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Ho-uh ho-uh ho-uh
December 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ho-uh ho-uh ho-uh
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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...
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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.
December 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Just watched Licorice Pizza for the first time. What a wonderful flick.
Need a miracle? In this economy?
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Need a miracle? In this economy?
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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
"That granola and Birkenstock aura."
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December 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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-...
Gorp Jazz and the Rise of SML
"That granola and Birkenstock aura."
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December 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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...
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 ...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I don’t think I’ll truly ever understand those people who “prioritize sleep.”
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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...
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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...
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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...
I See The Light - Hot Tuna | The Midnight Special
YouTube video by The Midnight Special
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December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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...
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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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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?
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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...
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...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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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Wrote a lil tribute to our late, great Donna Jean Godchaux, may she rest in peace... 🌹💀⚡️
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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.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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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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...
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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.
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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...
September 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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!
September 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Was hoping to go see Phish for the first time since 1999 or something. Unsuccessful!
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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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September 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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...
September 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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...
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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!"
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!"
September 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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!"
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
September 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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
