Part 2 of my interview with poet, essayist, podcaster, and jazz fanatic Sean Murphy. And I also play tracks from albums he recommended---plus one from an ensemble from Montreal called Bellbird, where you can hear some 'circular breathing' on the saxophone.

Sean also talks about a master of circular breathing---David S. Ware, as well as Rahsaan Roland Kirk. And I play music by both.

But the beginning of this episode is all about the great reed player Eric Dolphy who was taken from us all too early, all because it was assumed that his diabetic collapse was drug induced---even though Dolphy was a tee-tolar who never touched drugs.

Sean also talks about how Roland Kirk and Jaki Byard incorporate the whole history of jazz within their playing.

We also play music (and talk about) Matthew Shipp, Billie Holiday, and The JB's (James Brown's backup band). The episode ends with Bud Powell, and a powerful poem that wonders about the possibility that those artists who the ones 'paid to adjudicte' classify as insane might be "unassuming gods...meant to guide us through this oblivion where serenity is scarce as water". This is narrated under the backdrop of Bud Powell's "Un Poco Loco".

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