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Streets of Arklow…
August 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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REAL GONE S02E03
Jazz, Africa & Islam - Part 1

Jazz Artists such as Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Randy Weston chronicled the changing social landscape of America during the Civil Rights movement and facilitated a celebration of African and Islamic culture…
S02E03 Jazz, Africa & Islam - Part One: 'Uhuru Afrika'
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July 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
June 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Quality @recordstoredayuk.bsky.social material from @firstpress.bsky.social in East Belfast…
April 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Emmet McKeown
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For those who celebrate + partake: Head out to your favorite independent record shop on April 12, 2025—Record Store Day—to get your copy of IARC0100 𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 !!
April 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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REAL GONE S02E02
In the period following WWII stylistic and societal changes brought one wing of the music (classified as Cool Jazz, Third Stream, and West Coast Jazz) “closer to the appearance of a fashionable and utterly respectable modernist classical music”.
S02E02 'Birth of The Cool' (The Post-Bebop Years)
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 08/08/2024 · 49m
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March 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Madlib’s 2002 album “Shades of Blue” connected the dots between generations of jazzmen and beatmakers. We dive into five classic tracks from the Blue Note catalogue that the hip-hop producer reimagined on this recording.

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5 Blue Note Classics that Madlib Flipped - Everything Jazz
Madlib’s album "Shades of Blue" (2002) reimagined classic tracks from the Blue Note catalogue. Everything Jazz dives into five of them.
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March 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The Cold War saw the US State Dept recruiting America’s most talented and famous Jazz musicians, in a cultural propaganda war with the USSR, to perform in South America, the Middle East and post-colonial Africa, in furtherance of American geo-political interests.
S02E01 'Cool War - The Jazz Ambassadors'
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 24/05/2024 · 47m
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March 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Certain NYC nightclubs in the pre-Disco era (The Loft, The Gallery, The Sanctuary, The Flamingo, and the Tenth Floor among them) would have a crucial influence on Disco’s success, becoming the “sensational glue” for Gay congregation in New York City…
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March 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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During a 28/06/1969 raid, tensions at The Stonewall Inn escalated, prompting riots lasting several nights. Eventually celebrated as ‘The Stonewall Uprising’, these and later events highlighted the dissatisfaction of Gay people denied equality in their own society.
S01E07 - The STONEWALL Uprising 1969 & The Christopher Street Liberation Day March 1970
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 19/11/2024 · 38m
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March 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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We discuss the period following the Repeal of Prohibition when newly empowered liquor boards and Police Vice Patrols targeted the Gay clientele of local bars and nightlife, prompting a form of activism fed into the nascent Gay Rights movement…
S01E06 - VICE PATROL: The Policing of Queer Nightlife & Gay Activism in 20th Century America
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 19/10/2024 · 49m
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March 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A great night of spiritual jazz in The MAC Belfast last night. The Alina Bzhezhinska HipHarpCollective with Toni Kofi on Sax paying tribute to Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby. Really incredible music…
March 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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After the 1971 Hoe Avenue Gang Truce, street parties hosted by Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash (all children of Caribbean immigrants) would trigger the emergence of Hip-Hop influencing global music culture for decades that followed…
S01E05 REAL GONE –
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 01/08/2023 · 57m
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March 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Season 1, Episode 4 REAL GONE
The Artists Move to SoHo

How the community of artists in SoHo successfully opposed the Lower Manhattan Expressway during the mid-20th Century, and preserved the area’s architecture and cultural importance for decades to come…
S01E04 REAL GONE –
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 15/06/2023 · 45m
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March 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Season 1, Episode 3
‘Cooks In The Kitchen’

Experimental electronic music in Downtown New York, the Electronic Kitchen, the collapse of the Mercer Arts Centre, ‘The Expanding Universe’ by Laurie Spiegel…
S01E03
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 07/06/2023 · 41m
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March 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Season 1, Episode 2 REAL GONE
The network of Downtown New York Jazz Lofts in the early 1970s signified the spirit of independence and artistic adventure on the part of local jazz musicians culminating in the formation of the New York Musicians Organisation in 1972
S01E02
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 25/05/2023 · 46m
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March 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Season 1, Episode 1
The 1926 Cabaret Laws in New York massively affected how Jazz clubs were able to operate in New York, and had an often destructive effects on performing musicians including Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, and Thelonious Monk…
S01E01 -
Podcast Episode · REAL GONE · 08/05/2023 · 34m
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March 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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First post on Bluesky!
This is a link to my podcast ‘Real Gone’. We look at alternative music histories and detail the social and political developments that have driven the creation of new music and art. Our first season looks at New York in the early 1970s…
REAL GONE
Performing Arts Podcast · 10 Episodes · Updated twice weekly
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March 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM