One day Every Body Music will become a mainstream genre. In the meantime please support our work by sharing our podcasts, leaving comments, and contributing at everybodymusic.rocks/donate. In this episode, we delve into the profound impact music has on human connections and social relationships. Jonathan shares the belief that music transcends the …

One day Every Body Music will become a mainstream genre. In the meantime please support our work by sharing our podcasts, leaving comments, and contributing at everybodymusic.rocks/donate. In this immersive episode, recorded at the Trinity Presbyterian church in Prescott, AZ, USA, we take a profound journey through the rhythms and melodies within u…

Osingolio means singing and dancing in the Maa language of the Maasai. They cannot be separated in Maasailand. This episode is an excerpt from a video I made for the village of Ngong'u Narok in Amboseli, Kenya in 2008. You might hear Kaika talk about singing the dances. That's what they do there. That's how they flourish in drought and oppression. …

This episode is a conversation with Jaden King who was a gun carrying MAGA guy til he found Jesus. I tell him that music saved me and we're off and running.โดย erjjb

This episode was recorded at Prescott Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (PUUF) August 14, 2022. I talked about how the seven Unitarian Universalist principles can be applied to Every Body Music.โดย erjjb

This conversation with historian and jazz musician Paul Ruffner shows the vital role music played in the movement that got Salvadore Allende elected in Chile and also how threatening music was to Pinochet’s coup that ousted him and also why it has been so hard to get Every Body Music going here in the United States. This conversation made me wonder…

This episode from 2016 was culled from the comMUSIKey archives three years after comMUSIKey's creation. It's fun to see the very roots and seedlings of Every Body Music.โดย erjjb

In this episode, I talk to Marieke Slovin who spent a number of years in Brussels turning stories of immigrants into songs. As I was listening to this conversation it made me think of a snowfall that seeps into the ground over time continuing to nourish the music garden. So Let this conversation sink in. You can get the whole story at guidingsong.c…

This episode is an interview I did with Wally Glickman May 11, 2021. Wally was my teacher at Skunk Hollow High School. He introduced me to Einstein's theory of Relativity way back in those days and I haven't stopped trying to make sense of it since. I thought I could apply the theory to music and human relationships. Here's what Wally had to say. W…

I recorded this interview in my studio Sept. 8, 2019 with Seta. Seta was a student in my spring 2017 Prescott College class called Creating Community Through Music. Seta tells me many things about the importance of music in Native Black life. This interview feels like a song with lyrics that take me to different places each time I listen.…

What I realized after the fact is that Jarvis Tyner and his brother McCoy Tyner, major influencer of Bebop jazz are both revolutionaries on the same coin when you realize that music is life and life is music. I interviewed Jarvis in NYC 2019. Thank you Tina Nannarone for setting up this interview.โดย erjjb

I visited Sarah and her Heart Land Prairie Cemetary in Kansas on my 2019 cross-country build the bridges. I interviewed her in her home and as we strolled through the cemetery. Her podcast called A Path Home inspired me to start mine even though it took two years. It's about reclaiming our innate right to care for our own loved ones at death in nat…

This podcast was recorded in May of 2019. I went down to an undisclosed church in Phoenix with my friend David Sorensen, a big bags of clothes, my piano, and a bunch of drums. The story of the Asylum Seekers is a story without an ending. It’s a story that will keep expanding as more and more people get displaced by the effects of the climate disast…

This episode was recorded June 23, 2019 at a talk I gave at the Prescott Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, affectionately known as PUUF. You might consider it an introduction to the Every Body Music Revolution. Special thanks go to Glenna, Dale, the Ricklefs, and everyone at PUUF who helped make it happen.…

The Music Gardeners Almanac Podcast is all about bringing All Inclusive Every Body Play Music into every conversation. Jonathan Best will host talks with movers and shakers all over the earth while spreading seeds and cultivating the roots and fruits of Every Body Music. Because we at comMUSIKey believe that the world can use a lot of musical movin…