
Music For a Free World with Dave Sewelson | WFMU
Music Podcasts
Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.
Location:
East Orange, NJ
Genres:
Music Podcasts
Description:
Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.
Language:
English
Website:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/FI
Episodes
We are delighted to invite internationally acclaimed German drummer and composer Joe Hertenstein for the second time. from Jul 12, 2025
7/12/2025
Peter Van Huffel's Callisto - "Ravenous Hound" - Meandering Demons [https://cleanfeedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meandering-demons]
REMEDY feat. Thomas Heberer / Joe Fonda / Joe Hertenstein - "Alles Jutta" - Hipp Hipp Hooray - Celebrating the Centennial of Jutta Hipp [https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/hipp-hipp-hooray-celebrating-the-centennial-of-jutta-hipp] [0:22:22]
Schlippenbach Bauer Hertenstein - Live at Sowieso, Berlin, 8/2023 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Rps7NPCV4] [0:32:10]
Massaria/ Kneer/ Hertenstein - "Zero Two" - The Absence Of Zero [0:52:32]
Floros Floridis, Matthias Bauer, Joe Hertenstein - "drift 1" - temporal driftness [https://matthiasbauer.bandcamp.com/album/temporal-driftness] [1:04:04]
Unzeit Quartet - "Unzeit" - Unzeit [https://troubleintheeastrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unzeit-quartett] [1:12:07]
Mark Daterman, Jair Rohm Parker Wells, Joe Hertenstein - "Hazard Pay" - Aerial Imprints [https://aerialimprints.bandcamp.com/album/aerial-imprints] [1:26:44]
Remedy - "Allodoxaphobic" - ive at Jazzkammer [https://thomasheberer.bandcamp.com/track/still-looking-for-the-lake-allodoxaphobic-6] [1:42:14]
Joe Hertenstein - "Pink Umbrella" - Live During Lockdown [2:05:25]
Joe Hertenstein - "Ballad for Paul & Poo" - The 7th Dinner [https://www.joehertenstein.com] [2:21:03]
Joe Stone - "Crooked Frame" - Permablues [2:30:19]
Jeff Morris, Karl Berger, Joe Hertenstein - "Rondo" - Interfaces: Jazz Meets Electonics [2:41:01]
Joe Hertenstein / Dave Sewelson - "Radio Face" - Live on WFMU [2:57:34] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153989
Duration:03:06:29
Pianist, composer, & bandleader Mara Rosenbloom appears on WFMU today to highlight The Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival. from Jul 5, 2025
7/5/2025
Amina Claudine Myers - "Do You Wanna Be Saved?" - The Circle of Time [https://black-saint.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-wanna-be-saved]
Mazz Swift - "No More" - The 10000 Things: PRAISE SONGS for the iRiligious [https://mazzswift.bandcamp.com/album/mazz-swift-the-10000-things-praise-songs-for-the-iriligious] [0:15:35]
Cooper-Moore - "Sweet Hour of Prayer" - The Cedar Box Recordings [0:25:20]
Gnomes (feat. DoYeon Kim - "Sly" - Totenhagen [https://totenhagen.bandcamp.com/album/raw] [0:28:56]
Flyways - "Simple" - Mutualism [0:39:07]
Kazzrie Jaxen and Don Messina - "Kary's Trance" - the dance [0:50:22]
Amina Claudine Myers - "The Blues (Straight to You)" - Amina Claudine Myers Salutes Bessie Smith [https://aminaclaudinemyers.bandcamp.com/album/salutes-bessie-smith] [1:08:10]
Joe Henderson - "Beatrice" - The State Of The Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume Two [1:20:23]
Joe Morris & Do Yeon Kim - "Parsec Story" - Macrocosm [https://joemorrisritiglacialeratic.bandcamp.com/album/macrocosm] [1:20:54]
Reid, Kitamura, Bynum, Morris - "Encounter" - Geometry of Phenomena [https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/geometry-of-phenomena] [1:38:30]
Kazzrie Jaxen / Bud Tristano - "Prophecy of the Fourth Crow" - Lenapewiattuck [1:49:34]
Mara Rosenbloom - "I Like Gold" [2:02:04]
Kyoko Kitamura - "Slide" - Protean Labyrinth [https://kyokokitamura.bandcamp.com/track/slide] [2:08:32]
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "Rip, Rig & Panic" - Rip, Rig & Panic/Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith [2:17:45]
WeFreeStrings - "Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage [for Fannie Lou Hamer]" - Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage [for Fannie Lou Hamer] [https://wefreestringsesp.bandcamp.com/track/love-in-the-form-of-sacred-outrage-for-fannie-lou-hamer] [2:05:52]
Mazz Swift - "SomeDay School" - The 10000 Things: PRAISE SONGS for the iRiligious [https://mazzswift.bandcamp.com/album/mazz-swift-the-10000-things-praise-songs-for-the-iriligious] [2:31:38]
Mara Rosenbloom / Dave Sewelson - Live on WFMU [2:53:10]
Amina Claudine Myers - "Song fo Mother E" - Song for Mother E [https://aminaclaudinemyers.bandcamp.com/album/song-for-mother-e] [2:54:20]
Flyways - "Call This Life" - Mutualism [2:59:19] https://freeform.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153767
Duration:03:00:00
Elijah J. Thomas (he/him) is a Black Philadelphia-born, Harlem-based flutist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, creative producer, and composer/experimentalist. from Jun 28, 2025
6/28/2025
Jason Moran - "Artists Ought to be Writing" - Artist in Residence
Mohamed Saïdou Sow - "Acho tao" - Guinée: flûte peule du fouta djallon [0:15:35]
Claire Chase - "Density 21.5" - Density [0:30:03]
Charles Lloyd New Quartet - "Passin' Thru" - Passin' Thru [0:42:48]
Ella Fitzgerald - "Drop Me Off in Harlem" - Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book [0:51:36]
Buddy Collette & Herbie Mann - "Give A Little Whistle" - Flute Fraternity [1:02:55]
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "You Did It, You Did It" - The Man Who Cried Fire [1:15:23]
Steely Dan - "Black Cow" - aja [1:22:53]
Lew Tabackin - "Wise One" - Tanuki's Night Out [1:34:51]
Elijah J Thomas and Dave Sewelson - "4 or 5 Minutes" - Live on WFMU [1:51:58]
Sons of Kemet - "Think of Home" - Black To The Future [2:10:20]
Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra - "Quietude" - Central Park North [2:18:04]
Henry Threadgill - "Hope A Hope A" - Very Very Circus Spirit of Nuff [2:29:01]
Elijah J. Thomas & Marcus R. Grant - "a meditation on angst and a prayer to ancestors" - enuff music, vol. ii [https://elijahjthomas.bandcamp.com/album/enuff-music-vol-ii] [2:37:43]
Elijah J. Thomas & Marcus R. Grant - "offering of memorial: so many named, locked away and denied" [https://elijahjthomas.bandcamp.com/album/enuff-music-vol-ii] [2:46:51]
Samantha Kochis - "cracked hands" - tones: flute / bridge [https://samanthakochis.bandcamp.com/album/tones-flute-bridge] [2:53:29] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153469
Duration:03:06:31
Mark Howell is an American musician, composer, ethnomusicologist, and music archaeologist. from Jun 21, 2025
6/21/2025
Timber - "There's Always 1 & 9" - Parts and Labor [https://brownoutspassed.bandcamp.com/album/parts-and-labor]
Timber - "At the Same Time" - Parts and Labor [https://brownoutspassed.bandcamp.com/album/parts-and-labor] [0:01:34]
Timber - "I'm 30, I'm Having a Heart Attack, I Just Wanted You to Know That" - Parts and Labor [https://brownoutspassed.bandcamp.com/album/parts-and-labor] [0:04:48]
Zero Pop - "Mexican Bus Ride" - Glows in the Dark [0:18:44]
Zero Pop - "Provence Licconue" - Glows in the Dark [0:21:46]
Zero Pop - "What's to Become" - Glows in the Dark [0:24:42]
Curlew - "Time and a Half" - North America (expanded) [https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/north-america-expanded] [0:51:52]
Mark Howell, John Zorn, Rick Brown - Mark Howell, John Zorn, Rick Brown at Roulette 1987 [0:59:16]
Fred Frith - "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not B" - Four compositions for Guitar Quartet [https://fredfrith1.bandcamp.com/album/four-compositions-for-guitar-quartet-2] [1:10:16]
Fred Frith - "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not C" - Four Compositions for Guitar Quartet [https://fredfrith1.bandcamp.com/album/four-compositions-for-guitar-quartet-2] [1:12:54]
Fred Frith - "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not F" - Four Compositions for Guitar Quartet [https://fredfrith1.bandcamp.com/album/four-compositions-for-guitar-quartet-2] [1:15:06]
Fred Frith - "The As Usual Dance Towards the Other Flight to What is Not E" - Four Compositions for Guitar Quartet [https://fredfrith1.bandcamp.com/album/four-compositions-for-guitar-quartet-2] [1:17:55]
Sez Who [1:37:29]
Timber - "The Crankcase" - New York Eye & Ear Control [1:44:56]
Timber - "Move" - Parts and Labor [https://brownoutspassed.bandcamp.com/album/parts-and-labor] [1:51:41]
Timber - "Stupid Reasons" - Party Mix / Mesopotamia [https://brownoutspassed.bandcamp.com/album/parts-and-labor] [1:56:43]
Timber - "Puddle" - Parts and Labor [https://brownoutspassed.bandcamp.com/album/parts-and-labor] [1:59:35]
Mark Howell and Rick Brown - Roulette 2006 [2:07:16]
Mark Howell and Rick Brown - "George Cartright" [2:14:44]
Mark Howell - Art Roulette Wednesday, December 2, 1998 [2:20:02]
Timothy Ar - "Buck" [2:44:18]
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Howell - "Can You?" - Screaming into the Yawning Vacuum of Victory [https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/screaming-into-the-yawning-vacuum-of-victory] [2:52:58]
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Howell - "Fat Dad, Fat Son" - Screaming into the Yawning Vacuum of Victory [https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/screaming-into-the-yawning-vacuum-of-victory] [2:55:39]
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Howell - "Chunko" - Screaming into the Yawning Vacuum of Victory [https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/screaming-into-the-yawning-vacuum-of-victory] [2:56:15]
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Howell - "Snapping Bells" - Screaming into the Yawning Vacuum of Victory [https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/screaming-into-the-yawning-vacuum-of-victory] [2:56:32]
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Howell - "Twittch COde" - Screaming into the Yawning Vacuum of Victory [https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/screaming-into-the-yawning-vacuum-of-victory] [2:57:36]
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Howell - "Napkin" - Screaming into the Yawning Vacuum of Victory [https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/screaming-into-the-yawning-vacuum-of-victory] [2:58:34]
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Howell - "Takeout" - Screaming into the Yawning Vacuum of Victory [https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/screaming-into-the-yawning-vacuum-of-victory] [2:58:57]
Nick Didkovsky and Mark Howell - "Easy Action" - Screaming into the Yawning Vacuum of Victory [https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/screaming-into-the-yawning-vacuum-of-victory] [3:00:16] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153245
Duration:03:06:50