Deep Focus
352 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHost Mitch Goldman and his musician-guest explore rare archival recordings of one of the guest’s favorite artists.
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2024.03.18 Graham Haynes on Woody Shaw - 3 of 3
April 14, 2024 10:14 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBWhat confers greatness? There are many pathways, the most obvious being distinctive playing. Are there others? What about brilliant composing? Or inspiring bandleading? Or creating your own sound? How about honoring the tradition while still being blazingly original? Or just going your own way, whether anyone else is on that path or not? Achievement in any one of these categories will bring listeners' admiration but few reach the heights in all of them. Those are the heroes. This Mo...
2024.03.18 Graham Haynes on Woody Shaw - 2 of 3
April 10, 2024 10:12 - 57 minutes - 78.4 MBWhat confers greatness? There are many pathways, the most obvious being distinctive playing. Are there others? What about brilliant composing? Or inspiring bandleading? Or creating your own sound? How about honoring the tradition while still being blazingly original? Or just going your own way, whether anyone else is on that path or not? Achievement in any one of these categories will bring listeners' admiration but few reach the heights in all of them. Those are the heroes. This ...
2024.03.18 Graham Haynes on Woody Shaw - 1 of 3
April 01, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 94 MBWhat confers greatness? There are many pathways, the most obvious being distinctive playing. Are there others? What about brilliant composing? Or inspiring bandleading? Or creating your own sound? How about honoring the tradition while still being blazingly original? Or just going your own way, whether anyone else is on that path or not? Achievement in any one of these categories will bring listeners' admiration but few reach the heights in all of them. Those are the heroes. This Mo...
2020.03.02 Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard - 3 of 3
March 24, 2024 10:05 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBWe tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and women. But what about when they’re the guy down the street? Or the dad of your elementary school friend? How does that change the perspective? Cornetist Graham Haynes grew up down the block from the magnificent Jaki Byard, one of the all-time great pianist/arranger/educators and one of the most engaging characters ever on the bandstand. Stor...
2020.03.02 Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard - 2 of 3
March 18, 2024 00:04 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBWe tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and women. But what about when they’re the guy down the street? Or the dad of your elementary school friend? How does that change the perspective? Cornetist Graham Haynes grew up down the block from the magnificent Jaki Byard, one of the all-time great pianist/arranger/educators and one of the most engaging characters ever on the bandstand. Stor...
2020.03.02 Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard - 1 of 3
March 10, 2024 10:16 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBWe tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and women. But what about when they’re the guy down the street? Or the dad of your elementary school friend? How does that change the perspective? Cornetist Graham Haynes grew up down the block from the magnificent Jaki Byard, one of the all-time great pianist/arranger/educators and one of the most engaging characters ever on the bandstand. Stori...
2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 3 of 3
March 03, 2024 11:40 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBNot all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does. So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday night (Feb 5)? Will they be recordings that you've never heard? Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker? Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgold...
2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 2 of 3
February 25, 2024 11:36 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBNot all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does. So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday night (Feb 5)? Will they be recordings that you've never heard? Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker? Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgold...
2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 1 of 3
February 18, 2024 11:28 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBNot all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does. So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday night (Feb 5)? Will they be recordings that you've never heard? Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker? Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgold...
2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 3 of 3
February 11, 2024 11:12 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBTonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR. Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage. Tonight Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter and bon vivant, Steven ...
2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 2 of 3
February 04, 2024 11:01 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBTonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR. Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage. Tonight Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter and bon vivant, Steven ...
2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 1 of 3
January 28, 2024 11:37 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBTonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR. Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties-NYC-Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage. Tonight Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter and bon vivant, Steven ...
2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Hampton Hawes, Mulatu Astatke - 3 of 3
January 21, 2024 11:06 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBThis music is at its best when the artist is telling you exactly who they are. Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal mindscape of thoughts, puzzles and emotions. Whether alone or in an ensemble, in both his playing and his writing, he did so with an articulateness that could seem offhand but betrayed a distinct precision. It was just... him. Multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum knew Andrew Hill and draws inspiration from him to this day. Host Mitch Goldm...
2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Andrew Hill, Hampton Hawes - 2 of 3
January 14, 2024 11:50 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBThis music is at its best when the artist is telling you exactly who they are. Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal mindscape of thoughts, puzzles and emotions. Whether alone or in an ensemble, in both his playing and his writing, he did so with an articulateness that could seem offhand but betrayed a distinct precision. It was just... him. Multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum knew Andrew Hill and draws inspiration from him to this day. Host Mitch Goldm...
2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Andrew Hill, Hampton Hawes, Mulatu - 1 of 3
January 10, 2024 00:19 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBThis music is at its best when the artist is showing you exactly who they are. Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal mindscape of thoughts, puzzles and emotions. Whether alone or in an ensemble, in both his playing and his writing, he did so with an articulateness that could seem offhand but betrayed a distinct precision. It was just... him. Multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum knew Andrew Hill and draws inspiration from him to this day. Host Mitch Goldm...
2023.11.27 Tru Born Anthony Michael Peterson on finding the thread - 3 of 3
December 31, 2023 11:03 - 1 hour - 120 MB"Rock." "Jazz." "Classical." "Blues." We rarely question the value of categorizing music. These words are handy buckets to drop songs into: "I like this but I don't like that." Occasionally, an artist will come along and smudge the lines between them and these are often the artists we celebrate on Deep Focus. Tru Born (a.k.a. Anthony Michael Peterson) takes this line of exploration quite a bit further. He wants to know what was the human experience and the creative response to it that...
2023.11.27 Tru Born Anthony Michael Peterson on finding the thread - 2 of 3
December 25, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MB"Rock." "Jazz." "Classical." "Blues." We rarely question the value of categorizing music. These words are handy buckets to drop songs into: "I like this but I don't like that." Occasionally, an artist will come along and smudge the lines between them and these are often the artists we celebrate on Deep Focus. Tru Born (a.k.a. Anthony Michael Peterson) takes this line of exploration quite a bit further. He wants to know what was the human experience and the creative response to it that...
2023.11.27 Tru Born Anthony Michael Peterson on finding the thread - 1 of 3
December 17, 2023 11:28 - 1 hour - 86.1 MB"Rock." "Jazz." "Classical." "Blues." We rarely question the value of categorizing music. These words are handy buckets to drop songs into: "I like this but I don't like that." Occasionally, an artist will come along and smudge the lines between them and these are often the artists we celebrate on Deep Focus. Tru Born (a.k.a. Anthony Michael Peterson) takes this line of exploration quite a bit further. He wants to know what was the human experience and the creative response to it that...
2017.01.17 Mark Peterson on Eberhard Weber - 3 of 3
December 10, 2023 11:17 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBBassist Mark Peterson joins me tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR (89.9FM and wkcr.org) in a Deep Focus on German bassist/bandleader Eberhard Weber. Weber is a wholly distinctive musical thinker. Hmmmm… what ELSE do he and Mark have in common? This one is going to be fun! #WKCR #MarkPeterson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzPodcast #JamesBloodUlmer #StanleyClarke #JohnnieJohnson
2017.01.17 Mark Peterson on Eberhard Weber - 2 of 3
December 04, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBBassist Mark Peterson joins me tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR (89.9FM and wkcr.org) in a Deep Focus on German bassist/bandleader Eberhard Weber. Weber is a wholly distinctive musical thinker. Hmmmm… what ELSE do he and Mark have in common? This one is going to be fun! #WKCR #MarkPeterson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzPodcast #JamesBloodUlmer #StanleyClarke #JohnnieJohnson
2017.01.17 Mark Peterson on Eberhard Weber - 1 of 3
November 26, 2023 11:49 - 1 hour - 96.5 MBBassist Mark Peterson joins me tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR (89.9FM and wkcr.org) in a Deep Focus on German bassist/bandleader Eberhard Weber. Weber is a wholly distinctive musical thinker. Hmmmm… what ELSE do he and Mark have in common? This one is going to be fun! #WKCR #MarkPeterson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzPodcast #JamesBloodUlmer #StanleyClarke #JohnnieJohnson
2023.10.09 Matthew Shipp on Albert Ayler - 3 of 3
November 05, 2023 11:33 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBThere is a point at which the usefulness of language ends. You are simply not going to be able to express in words the sense of awe that you feel when creation overwhelms you but you always know when someone else is feeling it, too. In this moment you will find pianist Matthew Shipp and others who admire saxophonist Albert Ayler. Albert Ayler died at age 34 in 1970 and to this day his life feels more like an ellipsis or a question mark than a complete sentence. So much undone. And yet...
2023.10.09 Matthew Shipp on Albert Ayler - 2 of 3
October 29, 2023 21:33 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBThere is a point at which the usefulness of language ends. You are simply not going to be able to express in words the sense of awe that you feel when creation overwhelms you but you always know when someone else is feeling it, too. In this moment you will find pianist Matthew Shipp and others who admire saxophonist Albert Ayler. Albert Ayler died at age 34 in 1970 and to this day his life feels more like an ellipsis or a question mark than a complete sentence. So much undone. And ye...
2023.10.09 Matthew Shipp on Albert Ayler - 1 of 3
October 22, 2023 16:41 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBThere is a point at which the usefulness of language ends. You are simply not going to be able to express in words the sense of awe that you feel when creation overwhelms you but you always know when someone else is feeling it, too. In this moment you will find pianist Matthew Shipp and others who admire saxophonist Albert Ayler. Albert Ayler died at age 34 in 1970 and to this day his life feels more like an ellipsis or a question mark than a complete sentence. So much undone. And yet...
2023.09.25 Henry Threadgill on John Gilmore and Von Freeman - 3 of 3
October 15, 2023 10:08 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MB"Easily Slip Into Another World," Henry Threadgill's recent memoir, is required reading for a full appreciation of tonight's Deep Focus. It reveals the roots, the rich harvest, and the hidden, dark corners of a vibrant, creative life. The prose is plainspoken and forthright but the content is absolutely mind-expanding. No one of Threadgill's explosively expressive generation has laid bare the inspirations for his art as Threadgill does here. - What was it like to talk with John Coltrane?...
2023.09.25 Henry Threadgill on John Gilmore - 2 of 3
October 08, 2023 10:31 - 1 hour - 107 MB"Easily Slip Into Another World," Henry Threadgill's recent memoir, is required reading for a full appreciation of tonight's Deep Focus. It reveals the roots, the rich harvest, and the hidden, dark corners of a vibrant, creative life. The prose is plainspoken and forthright but the content is absolutely mind-expanding. No one of Threadgill's explosively expressive generation has laid bare the inspirations for his art as Threadgill does here. - What was it like to talk with John Coltrane?...
2023.09.25 Henry Threadgill on John Gilmore - 1 of 3
October 06, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 88.8 MB"Easily Slip Into Another World," Henry Threadgill's recent memoir, is required reading for a full appreciation of tonight's Deep Focus. It reveals the roots, the rich harvest, and the hidden, dark corners of a vibrant, creative life. The prose is plainspoken and forthright but the content is absolutely mind-expanding. No one of Threadgill's explosively expressive generation has laid bare the inspirations for his art as Threadgill does here. - What was it like to talk with John Coltrane?...
2023.09.04 Craig Harris on Sam Rivers - 3 of 3
September 21, 2023 10:18 - 1 hour - 115 MBIn the sixties, they explained evolution to us with that March of Progress illustration, a lockstep development from the proto-human Dryopithecus to modern man. That same approach was also used to explain jazz evolution: New Orleans to Chicago to New York, hot jazz to swing to bebop to cool... Contemporary evolutionary biologists will tell you that that sixties view is far too linear and simplistic. Should the same be said about the received history of the music? Let's consider saxoph...
2023.09.04 Craig Harris on Sam Rivers - 2 of 3
September 17, 2023 10:16 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBIn the sixties, they explained evolution to us with that March of Progress illustration, a lockstep development from the proto-human Dryopithecus to modern man. That same approach was also used to explain jazz evolution: New Orleans to Chicago to New York, hot jazz to swing to bebop to cool... Contemporary evolutionary biologists will tell you that that sixties view is far too linear and simplistic. Should the same be said about the received history of the music? Let's consider saxoph...
2023.09.04 Craig Harris on Sam Rivers - 1 of 3
September 10, 2023 19:15 - 1 hour - 96.8 MB------ In the sixties, they explained evolution to us with that March of Progress illustration, a lockstep development from the proto-human Dryopithecus to modern man. That same approach was also used to explain jazz evolution: New Orleans to Chicago to New York, hot jazz to swing to bebop to cool... Contemporary evolutionary biologists will tell you that that sixties view is far too linear and simplistic. Should the same be said about the received history of the music? Let's consider...
2023.08.21 Roy Nathanson on Eric Dolphy - 3 of 3
September 07, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBIf Eric Dolphy's music were a school of painting it would be analytical cubism: planar and angular, multi-directional and austere, But it's not abstract. It's showing us something we know; we are simply experiencing it in a completely new way. His work, in its frame, becomes an entire reality unto itself. It's endless. So what happens when you place this masterly museum piece in a sweaty nightclub? Does it shine? Does it wilt? Does Dolphy change his approach? Few have examined Dolp...
2023.08.21 Roy Nathanson on Eric Dolphy - 2 of 3
September 03, 2023 10:25 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBIf Eric Dolphy's music were a school of painting it would be analytical cubism: planar and angular, multi-directional and austere, But it's not abstract. It's showing us something we know; we are simply experiencing it in a completely new way. His work, in its frame, becomes an entire reality unto itself. It's endless. So what happens when you place this masterly museum piece in a sweaty nightclub? Does it shine? Does it wilt? Does Dolphy change his approach? Few have examined Dolp...
2023.08.21 Roy Nathanson on Eric Dolphy - 1 of 3
August 29, 2023 05:38 - 1 hour - 85 MBIf Eric Dolphy's music were a school of painting it would be analytical cubism: planar and angular, multi-directional and austere, But it's not abstract. It's showing us something we know; we are simply experiencing it in a completely new way. His work, in its frame, becomes an entire reality unto itself. It's endless. So what happens when you place this masterly museum piece in a sweaty nightclub? Does it shine? Does it wilt? Does Dolphy change his approach? Few have examined Dolp...
2023.08.07 Steven Bernstein and Scotty Hard on Miles Davis - 3 of 3
August 24, 2023 10:50 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBYou're Miles Davis. It's March of 1970 and you're about to release Bitches Brew, your most incendiary album yet. You have an electric band of young assassins (each of whom will go on to become a legendary bandleader in his own right) and they don't sound like any band anyone has ever heard. You know you've got the goods. You're looking for a new audience for this new sound and you get invited to share a bill with a major rock band at the Fillmore East, THE place where the Woodstock Genera...
2023.08.07 Steven Bernstein and Scotty Hard on Miles Davis - 2 of 3
August 20, 2023 10:47 - 1 hour - 109 MBYou're Miles Davis. It's March of 1970 and you're about to release Bitches Brew, your most incendiary album yet. You have an electric band of young assassins (each of whom will go on to become a legendary bandleader in his own right) and they don't sound like any band anyone has ever heard. You know you've got the goods. You're looking for a new audience for this new sound and you get invited to share a bill with a major rock band at the Fillmore East, THE place where the Woodstock Genera...
2023.08.07 Steven Bernstein and Scotty Hard on Miles Davis - 1 of 3
August 13, 2023 10:08 - 1 hour - 89 MBYou're Miles Davis. It's March of 1970 and you're about to release Bitches Brew, your most incendiary album yet. You have an electric band of young assassins (each of whom will go on to become a legendary bandleader in his own right) and they don't sound like any band anyone has ever heard. You know you've got the goods. You're looking for a new audience for this new sound and you get invited to share a bill with a major rock band at the Fillmore East, THE place where the Woodstock Genera...
2023.07.24 Ahmed Abdullah on Sun Ra, Abbey Lincoln - 3 of 3
August 10, 2023 10:47 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBThe future that Sun Ra sang of has arrived in so many ways. No one knows this better than the musicians who made the music with him. Ahmed Abdullah was part of Sun Ra's Arkestra for more than 20 years and his insights about that time could fill a book. In fact, they have. "A Strange Celestial Road" is newly released and Ahmed joins host Mitch Goldman to discuss it on this week's Deep Focus. Monday night 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on ...
2023.07.24 Ahmed Abdullah on Sun Ra, Abbey Lincoln - 2 of 3
August 06, 2023 19:58 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBThe future that Sun Ra sang of has arrived in so many ways. No one knows this better than the musicians who made the music with him. Ahmed Abdullah was part of Sun Ra's Arkestra for more than 20 years and his insights about that time could fill a book. In fact, they have. "A Strange Celestial Road" is newly released and Ahmed joins host Mitch Goldman to discuss it on this week's Deep Focus. Monday night 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on ...
2023.07.24 Ahmed Abdullah and Monique Ngozi Nri on Sun Ra - 1 of 3
July 30, 2023 21:32 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBThe future that Sun Ra sang of has arrived in so many ways. No one knows this better than the musicians who made the music with him. Ahmed Abdullah was part of Sun Ra's Arkestra for more than 20 years and his insights about that time could fill a book. In fact, they have. "A Strange Celestial Road" is newly released and Ahmed joins host Mitch Goldman to discuss it on this week's Deep Focus. Monday night 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on ...
2023.07.10 William Hooker on Joseph Jarman - 3 of 3
July 27, 2023 10:44 - 52 minutes - 71.7 MBWho was Joseph Jarman? A shaman? A conjurer? A Buddhist priest? A poet? An Aikido sensei? In the words of his fellow member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Lester Bowie, "Well, I guess that all depends on, ah, what you know." We know that in the universe of this music, which thrives on original thinking, few ranged as far and as free as Jarman. He brought us songs and stories, large-scale compositions, movement, theatricality, costumes and confrontation, along with collaborations and ...
2023.07.10 William Hooker on Joseph Jarman - 2 of 3
July 24, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBWho was Joseph Jarman? A shaman? A conjurer? A Buddhist priest? A poet? An Aikido sensei? In the words of his fellow member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Lester Bowie, "Well, I guess that all depends on, ah, what you know." We know that in the universe of this music, which thrives on original thinking, few ranged as far and as free as Jarman. He brought us songs and stories, large-scale compositions, movement, theatricality, costumes and confrontation, along with collaborations and ...
2023.07.10 William Hooker on Joseph Jarman - 1of 3
July 19, 2023 19:42 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBWho was Joseph Jarman? A shaman? A conjurer? A Buddhist priest? A poet? An Aikido sensei? In the words of his fellow member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Lester Bowie, "Well, I guess that all depends on, ah, what you know." We know that in the universe of this music, which thrives on original thinking, few ranged as far and as free as Jarman. He brought us songs and stories, large-scale compositions, movement, theatricality, costumes and confrontation, along with collaborations and ...
2023.06.12 Vijay Iyer on McCoy Tyner - 3 of 3
July 02, 2023 10:20 - 58 minutes - 81 MBYes, I am starting to see the pattern! Vijay Iyer has joined Mitch Goldman for Deep Focus programs on Andrew Hill, Thelonious Monk, and Geri Allen. This Monday the lens turns to McCoy Tyner. Do you see what I see? You will this Monday night from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: Mccoy Tyner 1973_gh Copyright 1973 Gisle Hannemyr -...
2023.06.12 Vijay Iyer on McCoy Tyner - 2 of 3
June 29, 2023 10:17 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBYes, I am starting to see the pattern! Vijay Iyer has joined Mitch Goldman for Deep Focus programs on Andrew Hill, Thelonious Monk, and Geri Allen. This Monday the lens turns to McCoy Tyner. Do you see what I see? You will this Monday night from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: McCoy Tyner - Keystone Korner 1981 - Photo by Brian...
2023.06.12 Vijay Iyer on McCoy Tyner - 1 of 3
June 25, 2023 18:12 - 1 hour - 99.4 MBYes, I am starting to see the pattern! Vijay Iyer has joined Mitch Goldman for Deep Focus programs on Andrew Hill, Thelonious Monk, and Geri Allen. This Monday the lens turns to McCoy Tyner. Do you see what I see? You will this Monday night from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: Mccoy Tyner 1973_gh Copyright 1973 Gisle Hannemyr -...
2023.05.29 William Parker on Don Cherry and Billy Bang - 3 of 3
June 11, 2023 10:19 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBWilliam Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music. More than that, he is a bassist, bandleader, and conceptualist of the highest order. The sheer volume of projects (including the upcoming Vision Festival) that he commits energy to is simply daunting and the list of noted improvisers he has played with is practically a who's who of the idiom. So which of them are we going to focus on? You'll have to tune in to find...
2023.05.29 William Parker on Don Cherry and Billy Bang - 2 of 3
June 09, 2023 10:16 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBWilliam Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music. More than that, he is a bassist, bandleader, and conceptualist of the highest order. The sheer volume of projects (including the upcoming Vision Festival) that he commits energy to is simply daunting and the list of noted improvisers he has played with is practically a who's who of the idiom. So which of them are we going to focus on? You'll have to tune in to find ...
2023.05.29 William Parker on Don Cherry - 1 of 3
June 07, 2023 16:11 - 1 hour - 88 MBWilliam Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music. More than that, he is a bassist, bandleader, and conceptualist of the highest order. The sheer volume of projects (including the upcoming Vision Festival) that he commits energy to is simply daunting and the list of noted improvisers he has played with is practically a who's who of the idiom. So which of them are we going to focus on? Are we going to push our luck o...
2023.05.08 Mark Whitfield on Wes Montgomery - 3 of 3
June 05, 2023 22:00 - 33 minutes - 45.3 MBWhen the centennial of an artist as singular and inventive and influential and expressive as Wes Montgomery passes, one Deep Focus is not enough. Several weeks ago, Rodney Jones brought us a whole new appreciation for Wes. Can Mark Whitfield do it again? This Monday (5/8), Mark takes a deep dive into the WKCR archives on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. Not only are we going to play some never-released live recordings from the NYC nightlife of 1965, but what about that supposed recording...
2023.05.08 Mark Whitfield on Wes Montgomery - 2 of 3
June 04, 2023 01:52 - 1 hour - 94.5 MBWhen the centennial of an artist as singular and inventive and influential and expressive as Wes Montgomery passes, one Deep Focus is not enough. Several weeks ago, Rodney Jones brought us a whole new appreciation for Wes. Can Mark Whitfield do it again? This Monday (5/8), Mark takes a deep dive into the WKCR archives on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. Not only are we going to play some never-released live recordings from the NYC nightlife of 1965, but what about that supposed recording...