The And then Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, you're jamming on U Street of music, news, and criticism.

I'm your host, John Caramonica. The And the And then. To clarify I have been on U Street. I'm not totally appropriating U Street. Street.

culture.

U Street culture.

U Street has just been appropriated for a few years now.

Don't worry, man.

If anything, I'm late to that. But we're on U Street today because we're talking about jazz and we're talking about jazz in 2018.

This is the first popcast of 2019, but we are looking back for our final year in review to talk about everything that happened in the world of jazz and because we're talking about jazz we're talking with Gio Rousinello. Hey Geo. What's, John. Geo covers Jazz from the New York Times.

On the phone, from DC, maybe near U Street,

I can't speculate.

John Murph is here.

He is a journalist and a DJ he writes for Jazz Times, Jazz Wise,

Downbeat, NPR Music, a variety of places. Hey John,

Hi how are you? Good man.

And we're going to look back.

We have some big themes to talk about.

We lost some very important people this year.

We're going to start with where we just did with Wayne Shorter.

That was a song called Pegasus off of Emmonon,

which was Wayne's most recent album,

not on Spotify, just FYI,

if everybody was rushing to Spotify.

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