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Fun 2 Know Podcast

Featuring interviews with writers, musicians and artists with host (and former FRESH AIR researcher) Dan Buskirk

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  1. Episode · Sep 3, 2026

    F2K Ep. 61 - Sun Ra Arkestra's Knoel Scott (opens the original)

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    On today's show, the saxophonist and the newly-anointed bandleader of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Knoel Scott. Sun Ra is the storied musician who came out of Alabama in the 1930s, landing in Chicago in the late 1940's, writing arrangements for the legendary big band leader Fletcher Henderson. Inspired by visions life in outer space, the musician transformed from Sonny Blount to Sun Ra, sent from Saturn to bring music to our embattled Earth. He assembled his big band, known as “The Arkestra,” and Sun Ra

  2. Episode · Jul 16, 2026

    F2K Ep. 60 - Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma (opens the original)

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    On today's show, we welcome back renowned electric bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma. This is the third time we've had Jamaaladeen at the mic, if you listen back to Fun-2-Know episodes 47 & 11 you can hear Jamaaladeen talk about growing up in North Philadelphia and playing the bands of legendary players Charles Earland and Walt Dickerson while still in his teens. But it is his experience in Ornette Coleman's ground-breaking mid-seventies band Prime Time that has been a source of endless inspiration to

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