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The Upful LIFE Podcast 098: MIKE RIVARD [bass/sintir: Club d’Elf] + LONNIE MARSHALL [bass/vox: Weapon of Choice, daKAH, Joe Strummer]

May 26, 2026May 26, 2026 B.Getz adam deitch, Arik Marshall, bass, bassist, Bootsy Collins, Boston, Brahim Fribgane, club d'elf, daKAH, daKAH hip-hop orchestra, drum and bass, Fishbone, Grateful dead, Grateful Dead tour, jerry garcia, Joe Maneri, Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer The Clash, JOhn Medeski, lonnie marshall, lonnie marshall weapon of choice, los angeles, Mat Maneri, microvard, mike rivard, mister rourke, Moroccan sintir, Morocco, music podcast, musician interview, Norwood Fisher, P-Funk, parliament funkadelic, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ryan Zoidis, sintir, trance, turntablist, weapon of choice, William "Bootsy" Collins

Episode 098 brings a double dose of low end theory, welcoming a pioneering pair of underground bass legends percolating on opposite coasts, both cats boasting decades in the game and deep in the streets, with the catalogues and collaborators to prove it.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast 095 : OTIS McDONALD, DERRICK ‘Smoker’ FREEMAN [SOUL Brass Band, Shadow People Pod], PIET DALMOLEN

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 B.Getz aloe blacc, atta kid, bassist, Bay Area, bob weir, derrick freeman, derrick smoker, drummer, eric krasno, eric krasno always, eric krasno and the assembly, eric krasno otis mcdonald, Hyde Street Studio, jazz mafia, joe cohen, king canyon, mickey hart band, music podcast, musician interview, New Orleans, nicholas payton, otis mcdonald, Piet Dalmolen, producer, san francisco, soul brass band, wil blades

Prolific San Francisco composer, producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist OTIS McDONALD is finally here. BG also checks back in with Derrick ‘Smoker’ Freeman [SOUL Brass Band, Shadow People Podcast]; and introduces rising NorCal guitarist/solo artist Piet Dalmolen.

Billy Strings Unpacks A Lifetime of Trauma & Resilience On ‘Dopey Podcast’ [B.Getz on L4LM]

November 21, 2025 B.Getz addiction, Billy Strings, BMFS, David Manheim, Debra Apostol, dopey dave, dopey podcast, drug addiction, drugs, heroin addiction, meth addiction, musician interview, recovery, Terry Barber

Billy Strings unveils a brutally honest, delicately disarming, and ultimately heart-warming conversation on Dopey, unpacking a lifetime of colossal trauma in unprecedented depth.

The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.093 : POLYRHYTHMICS vol.2 [Ben Bloom – gtr, Grant Schroff aka Champagne Bubblebath – drums]

October 4, 2025October 4, 2025 B.Getz afrobeat, ben bloom, champagne bubblebath, D.C. Go-Go, drummer interview, funk, funk band, grant schroff, guitarist interview, jamband, music podcast, musician interview, New Orleans, polyrhythmics, polyrhythmics life from below, seattle, Second Line, soul

Episode 093 welcomes back POLYRHYTHMICS, the fantastically-funky septet primarily based in Seattle, but these days steadily spreading their net further and wider than ever before.

The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.087: TARRIONA “TANK” BALL [Tank And The Bangas] + TYPE RIDER [multi-media poetry project]

April 22, 2025 B.Getz B.Helix, BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM GRAMMY, GRAMMY, jam cruise, jam cruise 21, Jorge Pena, music podcast, musician interview, New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, NOLA, poetry, slam poetry, spoken word, Tank And The Bangas, Tarriona "Tank" Ball, Type Rider

TARRIONA “TANK” BALL, founder/frontperson/visionary of NOLA-based, GRAMMY-winning TANK AND THE BANGAS joins B.Getz for a special broadcast aboard Jam Cruise 21! Plus: TYPE RIDER

The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.086: NUBYA GARCIA [U.K.-based saxophonist/composer]

April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 B.Getz BAM, black american music, club culture, Concord Jazz, DJ harrison, dub, dub reggae, dubstep, Georgia Anne Muldrow, jazz, jazz sax, jazz saxophonist, Joe Armon-Jones, London jazz, London nu-jazz, Mala, music podcast, musician interview, nu-jazz, nubya, nubya garcia, nubya garcia odyssey, nubya garcia source, psychedelic jazz, reggae, saxophone, saxophonist, Source We Move, UK jazz

A supreme honor & privilege to welcome scintillating saxophonist/composer NUBYA GARCIA for a deep, insightful chat on a smattering of salient topics with numerous delightful detours.

The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.085 : ALANA ROCKLIN v.2 [bass- STS9], ASHER FULERO [keys/producer – Threedom, Emancipator Ensemble, Halo Refuser]

March 28, 2025March 28, 2025 B.Getz alana rocklin, asher fulero, emancipator ensemble, everyone orchestra, jam cruise, jam cruise 21, music podcast, musician interview, sector 9, soundtribe sector 9, sts9

Episode 084 delivers dialogs with two insightful artists, kicking off with the return of STS9’s ALANA ROCKLIN, chased by keyboardist/producer ASHER FULERO.

The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.084: ECHT! Bassist FEDERICO PECORARO [Belgian Trap Jazz]

March 4, 2025 B.Getz Belgian Trap Jazz, ECHT!, ECHT! band, ECHT! Belgium, ECHT! Boilerism, ECHT! Brussels, ECHT! INWANE, electronic live band, Federico Pecoraro, jamtronica, live electronic music, music podcast, musician interview, Sdban Ultra

Idiosyncratic Belgian quartet ECHT! (Brusselier for ‘The Real Thing’) is remarkably adept at reverse engineering electronic music, a modus operandi of progressive-minded live instrumentation unleashed on a lava-like level beyond your wildest imagination.

The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.077: PETER LEVIN [keys – Gregg Allman, Blind Boys AL, The Highwomen] + Summer Tours ’24 Preview w/ J.A.

May 13, 2024May 17, 2024 B.Getz adam shmeeans smirnoff, allman brothers band, amanda shires, Blind Boys of Alabama, eric krasno, gregg allman, jason abrams, music podcast, musician interview, Peter Levin, summer tours, the highwomen

Peter has collaborated with legends like the late, great Gregg Allman, cultural institutions such as the Allman Brothers Band and Blind Boys of Alabama, rising stars i.e. Amanda Shires, and appears on the award-winning album The Highwomen.

The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.075: KRUDER & DORFMEISTER

February 19, 2024March 12, 2024 B.Getz acid jazz, black rock city, burning man, DJ, DJ/Producer, downtempo, G-Stone, K&D, K&D Sessions, kruder and dorfmeister, kruder dorfmeister, music podcast, musician interview, Peace Orchestra, peter kruder, richard dorfmeister, sampling, Tosca, turntablism

Live n’ direct from their studio in Vienna, Austria, iconic electronic producer/DJ duo KRUDER AND DORFMEISTER tap into The Upful LIFE Podcast for Episode 075. Colorful, humorous, poignant, a career-spanning joyride in the wayback machine with a pair of global pioneers.

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