Julian Booker

WRTI's Holiday Platters Weekend: tune in for a feast of classic jazz This Thanksgiving, the WRTI jazz team is starting a new tradition: our first annual Thanksgiving Holiday Platters Weekend. From 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 26 through 6 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 1, we’ll fea...

Get a sneak peek of our upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday Platters Weekend on WRTI + tune in starting tomorrow (Wednesday 11/26) night at 6pm to hear some great jazz records. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Getting Down and doing so seriously. Tonight on WRTI 6-9pm

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Thanks John Oliver for defending public media www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

Opening my show tonight with the venerable Marco Benevento who slayed as usual last night at The Met w/ Joe Russo’s Almost Dead . I’ll also have a bunch of Idris Muhammad, spiritual sounds by Levitation Orchestra , Roy Haynes + lots more. Let’s get down 6-9pm tonight on WRTI

Kassa Overall at Solar Myth: hear it only on Sunday Rotation at WRTI Tune in to Sunday Rotation on Nov. 9 to hear a world-exclusive broadcast of Kassa Overall's album-release show for CREAM, recorded at Solar Myth.

Hey, heads-up: Kassa Overall played an absolute knockout of an album-release show at Solar Myth two months ago. Tonight at 8pm, WRTI will play selections from that show on Sunday Rotation, hosted by @booker-julian.bsky.social. Tune in locally, or stream it worldwide. More info (+ video!) right here.

Be like Neko, live your best life and tune-in to The Get Down tonight 6-9pm on WRTI . I promise there’ll be bangers aplenty.

Taking a road trip to Detroit, Chicago, LA, NOLA, NYC and Philly today on The Get Down. 6-9pm on WRTI . Please note, no S*ientologists were injured in the making of this radio program.

🎃 👻 🎺 🎷 ☔️ 🎹 Tune in to hear Halloween tracks all night on WRTI !

RIP to the great Pierre Robert. Few, if any, have left such a mark on the radio and music communities in Philadelphia. May you be partying at a Beru Revue concert every night of your after life ✌️ 🖤

Get your 🎃 👻 jazz, funk and soul on The Get Down tonight! 6-9 pm WRTI

Grooves deeper than this sink hole in south Philly tonight on The Get Down incl. a tribute to D’Angelo 6-9pm om WRTI

There is a 0% chance the Phillies will ever get to the World Series again with Kevin Long on the coaching staff. Please save this to prove me wrong (you will not).

D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51

So sorry to hear about the loss of one of the true modern musical geniuses. D’Angelo was truly one of a kind. We will be playing his music tonight on WRTI and I’ll be featuring a bunch of his tracks this Saturday on The Get Down. RIP to the legend.

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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

NPR's veteran Pentagon reporter warns new media policy stifles journalism

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On WRTI 6-9 tonight for The Get Down. It’ll be the bomb.

Jason Dumas on X: "This video took a ton of turns 😂 I started filming to show all the Dodger fans hitting the exits in the 7th inning. Then Schwarber hit his second homer while filming. Then I caught a Phillies fan going nuts 😂 https://t.co/1edhgbMJoK" / X This video took a ton of turns 😂 I started filming to show all the Dodger fans hitting the exits in the 7th inning. Then Schwarber hit his second homer while filming. Then I caught a Phillies fan going nuts 😂 https://t.co/1edhgbMJoK

THIS MAN 🙌 ⚾️ 🎷 @phillies.com SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL JAZZ STATION x.com/JDumasReport...

Debut of Sunday Rotation on WRTI tonight. Tune in at 8pm to go back 60 years for an hour of jazz from 1965 🎺 ✌️

Transmissions From The Time Machine Each week, host Julian Booker takes listeners on a trip back in time featuring music from a different year for one hour. Selections include worldwide hits and album deep cuts that span across genres i...

Exploring the music of 1973 on Transmissions from the Time Machine tonight. And don’t forget if you miss any episodes, you can listen to past ones here: www.wncw.org/show/transmi...

New Cate Le Bon , Babon, Carlos Dafe + more on Culture Caravan. Tonight at 8pm on WNCW and all the time at culturecaravanradio.org

Get down tonight at 6pm on WRTI ✌️

Brad Mehldau channels the spirit of Elliott Smith on his new album Pianist Brad Mehldau's newest album, Ride into the Sun, is a loving tribute to the music of Elliott Smith. Mehldau sat down with WRTI's Julian Booker to discuss the new album, his history with the lat...

Thanks to Brad Mehldau for taking some time to talk to me about his new album inspired by Elliott Smith. Check out our discussion here:

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Wednesday Sep 24th 5:30-7:30pm at the Free Library Parkway Central branch. Come listen to Sonny Rollins records!

Zen times for crazy times. Solace in the music tonight on The Get Down. 6-9pm on WRTI.

Jumping in for Nicole Sweeney tonight on WRTI. Paying tribute to the late Akiko Tsuruga and much more. 6-9pm 🎹

This Zappa record is so nasty

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Turn off your phone. Go for a hike. Listen to public radio. On WRTI tonight 6-9pm.

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YouTube video by WRTImusic Sonny Rollins at 95 | Julian Booker

Hey, I did a thing! Check out my convo with Josh Jackson ab the great #SonnyRollins, who turned 95 years young yesterday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDng...

Be cool be cool. Sitting in for Josh Jackson on the Friday Mixtape tonight 6-8pm on WRTI 👋

Spending my morning digging through the stacks for #SonnyRollins inspiration. Celebrating his 95th birthday 🎷 🎂 all weekend on WRTI starting tonight at 6pm. Be there!