Julian Booker
Likes kindness, music, travel and Philadelphia. Current 📻🙋🏻♂️ at WRTI, WNCW & Culture Caravan / proudly FKA Rising Sun Presents & WXPN person.
- Some great new stuff on the New Music hour tonight including Seattle bassist Kelsey Mines @ 10pm + I’ll be hanging til 2a on WRTI
- Lots to get to including paying tribute to this classic recorded OTD in 1972. 10p-2a on WRTI
- Johnathan Blake does Groundhog Day and more tonight on WRTI 10p-2a ✌️
- Trying to get us through this virtual insanity we’re living in with some jazz, funk and soul tonight on The Get Down. 6-9pm on wrti.org
- Going big tonight on Miles at Midnight + plenty of jazz new and old 10p-2a on WRTI
- New music hour tonight on WRTI feat. Philly’s own James Fernando and much more at 10pm, I’ll be hanging on air til 2 👋
- A track from the forthcoming Melissa Aldana Blue Note release and lots more on wrti.org 10p-2a. Cya there ✌️
- An NPR reporter documents living in Minneapolis as a resident www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...
- Milestones and more tonight on WRTI 10p-2a!
- January has April showers and two and two always makes a five.
- “If we cannot all agree that the smearing of an American citizen and besmirching everything they stood for and asking us not to believe what we saw, I don't know what else to tell you” www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
- The US government murdered another innocent American citizen. His name was Alex Jeffrey Pretti; he was a nurse. The Trump administration and ICE/CBP are cowards & criminals. None of us are safe. Take care of yourselves and your neighbors; resist this authoritarian regime in every way you can.
- Getting ready for the big Philly ❄️ ⛈️ with some icy, cold, snowy jams + classics feat. the Mizell Bros, new Yin Yin & a lot more. Stay safe, resist authoritarianism, celebrate art. The Get Down tonight 6-9pm on WRTI .
- WRTI’s Jazz at Your Request with Nicole Sweeney starts this Monday 1/26 at 9pm. Tune-in every Mon-Thursday to hear a different listener request and get yours in now at www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlig...
- Celebrating the late Ralph Towner, some 1965 Miles at Midnight and lots more tonight 10p-2a on WRTI
- Some awesome new jazz by Kate Olson, Philly’s Jordan Williams , Camille Bertault & more tonight at 10pm on the New Music Hour on WRTI
- More Bitches Brew for Miles at Midnight + a happy birthday to the late Jimmy Cobb and much more tonight on wrti.org 10p-2a
- We honor the life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in song tonight on WRTI 6pm-midnight Graphic by AFM Local 47
- In the chair for Sunday Rotation tonight on WRTI 8-midnight. 8pm hr will be dedicated to entirely to jazz 🎸 guitarists ✌️
- We’ll do a bunch of Dave McMurray / Grateful Dead stuff, some Andrew Hill 🎹 and celebrate some birthdays including the high queen Sade who turned 67 yesterday 🙌 The Get Down tonight 6-9pm on wrti.org
- There’s just something about these small group recordings isn’t there? Playing a classic feat Gene Krupa on drums who would have turned 117 years old today 🥁 + lots more 10p - 2a on WRTI
- I spoke with Dave McMurray about his new album, the Grateful Dead and the late Bob Weir. Read more below. www.wrti.org/arts-desk/20...
- We continue the Bitches Brew playback at midnight, but all new tracks on the New Music Hour at 10pm feat. this new one from Michael League, Pedrito Martinez & Antonio Sanchez✌️ on WRTI
- We get back into Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew tonight + lotsa new music and this Lockjaw classic feat. Melba Liston (who woulda celebrated a birthday today) on trombone, 10p-2a on WRTI
- Spent some time yesterday reading about Miles’ shows with the Dead a week or two after Bitches Brew came out. What I would give to have been at that entire run at Fillmore West. It inspired me to feature Bitches Brew all this week into next for Miles @ Midnight, Mon-Thurs night on WRTI.
- Would really appreciate never having to experience a military flyover again, thanks.
- A bunch of George Duke and much more tonight on The Get Down 6-9pm on WRTI ❤️ 🎹
- On WRTI 10p-2a tonight + feat. this classic for Miles at Midnight 🎺 ✌️
- South Philly represent www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlig...
- New Julian Lage, Niia, Alexa Tarantino + more tonight on the New Music Show. 10pm on wrti.org !
- Join me for a curio cabinet full of funky jams for New Year’s Eve. It’s a special 4 hour edition of The Get Down on WRTI starting at 10pm on 12/31. Let’s party. 📸: Max Tracy
- All music from 2025 tonight on The Get Down. Starting with this Misha Panfilov banger at 6pm on WRTI ✌️
- It’s Christmas! All holiday jams on WRTI all night. ✌️ 🎄
- Tune in for a funky funky Christmas tonight on The Get Down, 6-9pm on WRTI
- Check out some of WRTI's favorite albums and live experiences of 2025! www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlig...
- Happy Holidays from all of us at WRTI! www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlig...
- Our thoughtful dog recommends you listen to The Get Down tonight for a bunch of Grover tunes, holiday funk, a journey through the world of library music and music more. 6-9pm on WRTI!
- A must-see every holiday season www.dailymotion.com/video/x57fkhi
- Remembering the late Phil Upchurch tonight on The Get Down + new tracks and some holiday funk & soul 6-9pm on WRTI!
- This 1973 gem + feat. albums from 1983 and 1998 (any guesses as to which ones?) on today’s 🦃 Holiday Platters edition of The Get Down tonight 6-9pm on WRTI
- 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! www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlig...
- Getting Down and doing so seriously. Tonight on WRTI 6-9pm
- Thanks John Oliver for defending public media www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
