Julian Booker
@booker-julian.bsky.social
Likes kindness, music, travel and Philadelphia. Current 📻🙋🏻♂️ at WRTI, WNCW & Culture Caravan / proudly FKA Rising Sun Presents & WXPN person.
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
📸: Max Tracy
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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
📸: Max Tracy
All music from 2025 tonight on The Get Down. Starting with this Misha Panfilov banger at 6pm on WRTI ✌️
December 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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. ✌️ 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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
December 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Tune in for a funky funky Christmas tonight on The Get Down, 6-9pm on WRTI
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!
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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
A Claymation Christmas Celebration
Dailymotion video by animefan37
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December 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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!
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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!
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WRTI's Holiday Platters Weekend: tune in for a feast of classic jazz
This Thanksgiving, the WRTI jazz team is starting a new tradition: our first annual Thanksgiving Holiday Platters Weekend. From 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 26 through 6 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 1, we’ll fea...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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!
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Getting Down and doing so seriously. Tonight on WRTI 6-9pm
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Getting Down and doing so seriously. Tonight on WRTI 6-9pm
Thanks John Oliver for defending public media www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thanks John Oliver for defending public media www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Opening my show tonight with the venerable Marco Benevento who slayed as usual last night at The Met w/ Joe Russo’s Almost Dead . I’ll also have a bunch of Idris Muhammad, spiritual sounds by Levitation Orchestra , Roy Haynes + lots more. Let’s get down 6-9pm tonight on WRTI
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Opening my show tonight with the venerable Marco Benevento who slayed as usual last night at The Met w/ Joe Russo’s Almost Dead . I’ll also have a bunch of Idris Muhammad, spiritual sounds by Levitation Orchestra , Roy Haynes + lots more. Let’s get down 6-9pm tonight on WRTI
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Hey, heads-up: Kassa Overall played an absolute knockout of an album-release show at Solar Myth two months ago. Tonight at 8pm, WRTI will play selections from that show on Sunday Rotation, hosted by @booker-julian.bsky.social. Tune in locally, or stream it worldwide. More info (+ video!) right here.
Kassa Overall at Solar Myth: hear it only on Sunday Rotation at WRTI
Tune in to Sunday Rotation on Nov. 9 to hear a world-exclusive broadcast of Kassa Overall's album-release show for CREAM, recorded at Solar Myth.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey, heads-up: Kassa Overall played an absolute knockout of an album-release show at Solar Myth two months ago. Tonight at 8pm, WRTI will play selections from that show on Sunday Rotation, hosted by @booker-julian.bsky.social. Tune in locally, or stream it worldwide. More info (+ video!) right here.
Be like Neko, live your best life and tune-in to The Get Down tonight 6-9pm on WRTI . I promise there’ll be bangers aplenty.
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be like Neko, live your best life and tune-in to The Get Down tonight 6-9pm on WRTI . I promise there’ll be bangers aplenty.
Taking a road trip to Detroit, Chicago, LA, NOLA, NYC and Philly today on The Get Down. 6-9pm on WRTI . Please note, no S*ientologists were injured in the making of this radio program.
November 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Taking a road trip to Detroit, Chicago, LA, NOLA, NYC and Philly today on The Get Down. 6-9pm on WRTI . Please note, no S*ientologists were injured in the making of this radio program.
🎃 👻 🎺 🎷 ☔️ 🎹 Tune in to hear Halloween tracks all night on WRTI !
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🎃 👻 🎺 🎷 ☔️ 🎹 Tune in to hear Halloween tracks all night on WRTI !
RIP to the great Pierre Robert. Few, if any, have left such a mark on the radio and music communities in Philadelphia. May you be partying at a Beru Revue concert every night of your after life ✌️ 🖤
October 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
RIP to the great Pierre Robert. Few, if any, have left such a mark on the radio and music communities in Philadelphia. May you be partying at a Beru Revue concert every night of your after life ✌️ 🖤
Get your 🎃 👻 jazz, funk and soul on The Get Down tonight! 6-9 pm WRTI
October 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Get your 🎃 👻 jazz, funk and soul on The Get Down tonight! 6-9 pm WRTI
Grooves deeper than this sink hole in south Philly tonight on The Get Down incl. a tribute to D’Angelo 6-9pm om WRTI
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Grooves deeper than this sink hole in south Philly tonight on The Get Down incl. a tribute to D’Angelo 6-9pm om WRTI
There is a 0% chance the Phillies will ever get to the World Series again with Kevin Long on the coaching staff. Please save this to prove me wrong (you will not).
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
There is a 0% chance the Phillies will ever get to the World Series again with Kevin Long on the coaching staff. Please save this to prove me wrong (you will not).
So sorry to hear about the loss of one of the true modern musical geniuses. D’Angelo was truly one of a kind. We will be playing his music tonight on WRTI and I’ll be featuring a bunch of his tracks this Saturday on The Get Down. RIP to the legend.
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D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51
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October 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
So sorry to hear about the loss of one of the true modern musical geniuses. D’Angelo was truly one of a kind. We will be playing his music tonight on WRTI and I’ll be featuring a bunch of his tracks this Saturday on The Get Down. RIP to the legend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...
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NPR's veteran Pentagon reporter warns new media policy stifles journalism
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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
NPR's veteran Pentagon reporter warns new media policy stifles journalism
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On WRTI 6-9 tonight for The Get Down. It’ll be the bomb.
October 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
On WRTI 6-9 tonight for The Get Down. It’ll be the bomb.