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"Observations of Deviance has become a Wire deadline weekend staple." The Wire (UK)

David Mittleman

DJ @wfmu.bsky.social

Vinyl collector

Writing @ We Jazz Magazine

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"My art is my life; and my art is weird"

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November 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Don Moye And Son

Famoudou Don Moye, member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, practicing while his son plays and runs around the room, Chicago, IL, late twentieth century. The vibraphonist in the background is unidentified.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Trombonist Lester Lashley plays on stage as part of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Chicago, IL, ca.1968. Drummer Thurman Barker is visible behind him.
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Poem By Ishmael Reed (1978)

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November 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Don Moye And Son

Famoudou Don Moye, member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, practicing while his son plays and runs around the room, Chicago, IL, late twentieth century. The vibraphonist in the background is unidentified.
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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"My art is my life; and my art is weird"

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November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Don Moye And Son

Famoudou Don Moye, member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, practicing while his son plays and runs around the room, Chicago, IL, late twentieth century. The vibraphonist in the background is unidentified.
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility.

So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.

This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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#NowPlaying Steve Lacy - Points (Le Chant du Monde, France 1978).

An ode to the soprano saxophone
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#NowPlaying Globe Unity Orchestra- Live in Wuppertal (FMP, Germany 1973).
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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#NowPlaying Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas - A Mountain Sees A Mountain (Old Heaven Books, China 2025).

Great free improvisation by two masters.
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I Hear Freedom: The Great Migration, Free Jazz, and Black Power 📕 Cisco Bradley

March 2026 • Columbia University Press

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November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social

"My art is my life; and my art is weird"

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November 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Recharging with Gil Evans' homage to #Hendrix. I have a regular copy but couldn't leave a Quad behind in the bargyn bin. Haven't compared yet, so not sure if mixes any different. Fun album, some great players here. Works much better than you might think. #musicsky #jazzsky #jazz #music
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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New Music, New Reissues & Rare Vintage #Vinyl

Sat, Nov 8, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Don Moye And Son

Famoudou Don Moye, member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, practicing while his son plays and runs around the room, Chicago, IL, late twentieth century. The vibraphonist in the background is unidentified.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Trombonist Lester Lashley plays on stage as part of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Chicago, IL, ca.1968. Drummer Thurman Barker is visible behind him.
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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New Music, New Reissues & Rare Vintage #Vinyl

Sat, Nov 8, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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November 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We just kicked off, live now!

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New Music, New Reissues & Rare Vintage #Vinyl

Sat, Nov 8, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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November 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
On the next episode

New Music, New Reissues & Rare Vintage #Vinyl

Sat, Nov 8, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Special #AkikoYano on #NTS Tonight 🔥
9pm CET / As I Was Moving Ahead - Tania Feghali
An avant pop -jazz -punk -cinematic -exhilarating dive into Akiko’s world.

Akiko Yano concert in London!
#LondonJazzFestival 23 Nov at @barbicancentre.bsky.social efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/japan...
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico.

I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Neneh is the coolest.
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM