Jazz Mountain
Jazz Mountain is a jazz, jam, and psychedelic rock podcast. Featuring a variety of different artists, formats, styles, and specials, there are no rules on the show, other than that it rocks. Join us and be taken on a magical improv journey! Tune in if you like jams and artists like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, John Scofield, Grateful Dead, Phish, and Japanese jazz. Or if you're looking for some new music that will expand your horizons, we're always pushing the boundaries and going deep. Come along to the Jam Cave Studio for a real good time!
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Friday Sep 12, 2025
Friday Sep 12, 2025
Welcome ,everybody, to the mystical Acoustic Forest, deep inside the heart of the Jazz Mountain! In this show, we take you on a journey to a place where no electric instruments are allowed. So, prepare your ears for some good old fashioned acoustic sounds, as we jam out unplugged style. Our trip will meander through various styles and genres, with the basic theme of rocking out. So, come get lost with us in the Acoustic Forest as we try something new, and feel all your troubles melt away!
Friday Aug 01, 2025
Friday Aug 01, 2025
Happy America Day, everybody! We have the perfect music for your 4th of July BBQ, Jazz Mountain style. Only artists from the good old USA on this one, and we survey the landscape of American music with your picks for this set. Get ready to rock! So, crack a beer, grill some meat, blow some stuff up, and take a little journey with us on this special day!
Friday Aug 01, 2025
Friday Aug 01, 2025
Let's spin some vinyl and jam some weird jazz! This show starts another new series here on the show where we play all vinyl, all night long, from the Mountain Archive here in the Jam Cave Studio. Tonight we take a journey into some deep jazz. So join in to swing with us and also take a trip to the outer reaches of the musical universe. Let's goooo!
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Hope you guys are hungry for some more jams...cuz we got some delicious ones being served up here yet again on the show! It's round 3 of this series now, so return with us to the Jam Cave Studio with your hosts DJ Benzen and DJ Id as they take you on another rockin, exploratory journey into the wonderful world of jam bands. Hear from some of the best artists in the genre, join in on some fun studio banter, and most of all, get ready to rage!
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Come and join the party, y'all! In this show, we celebrate the release of DJ Greg's new album, Scale, with a little roundtable discussion that takes some wild turns. We delve deep inside the mind of the artist and hear about his inspiration, recording process, and journey in making the album, and much more fun stuff too...just wait. Scale is Greg Goldman's 11th studio album, and it's defiantly one of his best. So, some amazing tunes in this show too! And it's super interesting to hear about his process in recording the album. Greg's a true renaissance man and does it tall, and his muses are as varied as his influences. Check it out as we record from Greg's studio and have a grand old time!
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Let's finish 'er up and jam big in this final chapter of our Jackie McLean special. Join DJ BenZen and special guest DJ Greg as they explore Jackie's "step beyond", as he begins to play in a more complex and experimental style. We'll finish up Jackie's story, playing clips from interviews with the artist and his bandmates, while weaving together a wild and rockin musical ride. Join in the fun studio banter and hear tracks from some of the most enjoyable and innovative jazz albums of all time. Thanks for everything, Jackie. You were a great first Jazz Mountain Giant. Let's goooo!!
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Let's continue our journey into the life and music of our first Jazz Mountain "Giant", saxophonist Jackie McLean. Join us for Set 2 of this series, as we tell the second part of the epic story of one of jazz's greatest personalties and most underrated players. Join along and jam with us as we check out some of Jackie's best tracks, and even hear from the artist himself. These are the years when Jackie began to fly beyond Bird to develop his own sound and style, while still learning from some of the best jazz cats in the scene. This episode swings, so get ready to boogie!
Tuesday May 06, 2025
Tuesday May 06, 2025
Join DJ BenZen as he takes you on an epic journey into the life of jazz sax great Jackie McLean. This is our first ever "music documentary", so expect not only to jam, but also to delve deep into the life, music, and legacy of the artist. Jackie McLean was raised in Harlem and came up under the wings of Bird, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis, and this fist episode chronicles his early formative years in the scene. He has a really interesting story, and we can't wait to tell it to you here on the show. Let's go back to Harlem in the late 40s-early 50s for this first part and boogie!
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
This is it! We finally reveal "the river" and see who's the lucky winner of our Jazz Mountain poker game. Let's party for this one- lots of epic jams from the mind of DJ Benzen comin your way. Time to rock!
Friday Mar 28, 2025
Friday Mar 28, 2025
We're back at the Jazz Mountain casino! It's time for the "turn" as our collective poker game continues. And, of course, the jams continue as well. So get ready to delve deep into the mind of your host, DJ Benzen, as he picks em how he feels em and goes deep in another epic Jazz Mountain journey!