Mark Fisher argues late capitalism has become so globally dominant that it now claims to constitute reality. This article takes up Fisher's call to identify untenable or unsustainable elements of capitalism, exposing its claim of realism as ideological. Focusing on late capitalism's anxiety-inducing, panicked temporal malaise, the article explores the question: what can music education do to disrupt capitalist-realist temporality? Examining both inbuilt temporal components of jazz study--such as space, time, feel, and tempo--and deliberate pedagogical exercises in free improvisation, this article argues that small-ensemble jazz education holds a strong potential to cultivate temporal consciousness in resistance to our frantic, accelerated time-state.