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Life up on the rooftops of the buildings they burned down, life inside the eyelid of the cancerous star camera. RIP Wayne Shorter.

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Podconsoomer

While I was listening to true anons last episode I was thinking about this new gods series a loooot

Pear Is A Patsy

It’s 3AM and i’m driving home through a snow storm, perfect timing for a funeral of the gods

Louie Van Patten

Incredible episode, I'll be listening to it many times.

kallampero

It surprises me not at all that Mr. Judge, who not all that long ago gave special, singular, closely-guarded praise to Fred Rogers, just bestowed a similar kind of episode-long honor on the enthusiastically misunderstood gift that is jazz, seeing as Rogers' show was the first piece of television to introduce the artform to children by way of the legendary Johnny Costa (aka "The White Art Tatum," so nicknamed by Art Tatum). In celebration of this intersection, I'd like to share with whomsoever might be reading this: Johnny Costa Plays Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, an album Costa's agent personally transferred from the master tapes to CD for me years before there was ever a CD pressing, which will forever sit high atop the list of recorded music I love and cherish the most: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6XMTmQ88ozaZDZxeFRWRXFoTjA?resourcekey=0-pK7y-dgduVQTWU5litZoqA&usp=share_link

Podconsoomer

What’s the song at the end of this one ?

ggmacd

"constantly improvising a shape in which it's possible to survive" is now a blinking neon light in my head accompanied by a sax solo, thank you, mr judge.

Jaime Christley

MSJ, this isn't jazz- or Pynchon-adjacent but for some reason it occurred to me to drop a strong recommendation for the feel-good cinematic work of the late Alan Clarke (1935-1990); he might be best known for RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO (the 2010 film THE ARBOR is a portrayal of the life of its writer, Andrea Dunbar), but also ELEPHANT (1989), because of the association with Gus Van Sant's 2003 movie - but believe me, they're otherwise worlds apart. Clarke is often marginalized because he made most of his movies for television, but he's as unclassifiable as Kubrick, and quietly one of the more influential British filmmakers of, say, the post-Powell & Pressburger reign. His other top films include CHRISTINE (no relation to the John Carpenter killer car masterpiece) (but trigger warning: heroin use), THE FIRM (zero connection to John Grisham), CONTACT (nothing to do with the 1997 sci-fi film starring Jodie Foster), and my favorite, the insane Steadicam masterpiece ROAD. Oh and he made a film starring Bowie in 1982: BAAL, an adaptation of the Brecht play. His stuff might be hard to find via the usual, uh, lawful services but uh, you know - *touches bridge of nose like in THE STING*. Anyway great ep, keep up the work.

Hugo St-Pierre

Great episode. That last part made me think a lot about Kamasi Washington’s Fists of Fury.

Leo

Love the episode. Just don’t forget Ornette Coleman and his concept of Harmolodics

Shiv

RIP Wayne Shorter indeed 💔

Justin Hastings

Highly recommend historian Gerald Horne’s latest book “Jazz and Justice.” For my money the best living American historian

estband

If that’s not the greatest goddamn explanation of Jazz then I’ll eat my hat. Fantastic episode, per usual, and wonderfully moving. Well done, sir. Rest In Peace, Wayne.

W

Listening to classics I've listened to when I was a kid, with a different idea in mind really does make you appreciate that artform more. I admit already, I got Taylor Swift for brains.

John Plass

Oh my god. Virtuoso-level cast. Another MJ classic

NYCM&AHole

Your monologue makes me want to go listen to Carcass’s Keep on Rotting in the Free World. If you’re not a death metal fan, just skim the lyrics.

Lojban Percocet

My father is a massive jazz with a massive collection, so I grew up hearing lots of Coltrane, Davis, and Shorter. I never was able to share his enthusiasm, and as I got older I started to actively espouse a distaste for all things jazz, especially the Marsalis-supported organizations that keep it in the peteified, high-brow museum status it has today. In recent years I've started to see the errors in my judgment by re-evaluating the classics from this era, and your thoughtful analysis of jazz's history and values reminded me of all the context and beauty I've been missing and fighting against for so long. Put on some Shorter after this episode and connected wirh it like never before. Thank you for another beautiful episode

CT

Mike, I listened to the last two episodes of this show today. Second to last I listened to in the morning, over coffee, wandering about the Lower East Side/East Village. Took the headphones out, meandered my way from Thompkins Sq park to Washington Sq park, meandering further and deeper. Taking it all in. All of the horrors, and the achievements and layers of time on top of time in that fucked up, beautiful city. Wound my way to Penn Station for a long train ride home. On the train I listened to this last episode. Just such a beautiful synopsis and encapsulation of the subject matter. Thank you. I shit thee not, the closing music came to a close just as my taxi dropped me off, at home.

justdave

I was once almost 'recruited' - or whatever- to play stand up bass for the marine core jazz band out of high-school

Joe White

This is one of your all time bests.

Jacob Kotler

Diving into Shorter’s Blue Note records after listening to this ep and my god ‘Juju’ is a banger.

Sandy

That aesthetic orienteering you talk about at the beginning of there, I've always conceived using the video game term "customizing your character."