Episode #248

Featuring a hot stack of new releases including jazz guitar giant John Scofield w/Steve Swallow, latin piano maestro Arturo O’Farrill, the late-great saxophone ninja Jimmy Heath, and soul diva Betty LaVette; fresh new beats from Copenhagen’s School of X; East Village groovers Avi Bortnick, Jesse Murphy, Aaron Johnson, and co. recorded live at NuBlu 151 in NYC; a brand new lost recording from the Thelonious Monk Quartet in Palo Alto in 1968; and one of the grooviest East Bay cats out there, Mr. Raphael Saadiq.