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Host Mitch Goldman and his musician-guest explore rare archival recordings of one of the guest’s favorite artists.
This is a beautiful episode of Deep Focus, but unfortunately, only the middle portion of it was recorded successfully. If you have the rest of it, please get in touch with us so we can post it. Enjoy! How is it possible that no one has chosen Duke Ellington as a subject for Deep Focus? Maybe because it's just too daunting; no one has matched his brilliance as an orchestrator, his ability to lead a band, his supreme elegance. Well, that drought ends tonight. Keyboard monster Brian Charette and host Mitch Goldman have some sparklers from the archives for you, even an extraordinarily rare collaboration with Charles Mingus. Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Photo credit: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 See you on the radio! © 2019 Small Media Large. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the publisher.
On Deep Focus this Monday (7/6), a celebration of the life and music of James Blood Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026), with guest Vernon Reid. Our hearts are heavy, but spirits will be flying. Please join us. Tune in this Monday (7/6) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: James Blood Ulmer - photo by Nomo michael hoefner www.zwo5.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org.licenses.by-sa.3.0 via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #DeepFocus #VernonReid #JamesBloodUlmer #AdamuMustafaAbdulMussawir #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
On Deep Focus this Monday (7/6), a celebration of the life and music of James Blood Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026), with guest Vernon Reid. Our hearts are heavy, but spirits will be flying. Please join us. Tune in this Monday (7/6) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.
Photo credit: James Blood Ulmer - photo by Nomo michael hoefner www.zwo5.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org.licenses.by-sa.3.0 via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #DeepFocus #VernonReid #JamesBloodUlmer #AdamuMustafaAbdulMussawir #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
On Deep Focus this Monday (7/6), a celebration of the life and music of James Blood Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026), with guest Vernon Reid. Our hearts are heavy, but spirits will be flying. Please join us. Tune in this Monday (7/6) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.
Photo credit: James Blood Ulmer - photo by Nomo michael hoefner www.zwo5.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org.licenses.by-sa.3.0 via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #DeepFocus #VernonReid #JamesBloodUlmer #AdamuMustafaAbdulMussawir #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
This episode of Deep Focus does not have a spoken introduction. It starts immediately after the previous episode ends. The moment you invoke the name of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, the widow of John Coltrane, you open a door into other ways of understanding. She was part of her husband's last working band, but after his death, and for the next 40 years, her music became suffused with her spiritual practice and mystical experiences. Her conviction was so thorough that some listeners found it alienating, but others were compelled by it. Although she is no longer with us, her music remains a deep well of discovery. Pianist Vijay Iyer has explored her music richly. What has he found in it? What influence has it had on him? On his music and his life? Let's listen with him to rare, live recordings of her and find out how and why her work is so fascinating. Tune in this Monday (6/8) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, 1972. No publishing information available. #WKCR #DeepFocus #VijayIyer #AliceColtrane # AliceColtraneTuriyasangitananda #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
The moment you invoke the name of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, the widow of John Coltrane, you open a door into other ways of understanding. She was part of her husband's last working band, but after his death, and for the next 40 years, her music became suffused with her spiritual practice and mystical experiences. Her conviction was so thorough that some listeners found it alienating, but others were compelled by it. Although she is no longer with us, her music remains a deep well of discovery. Pianist Vijay Iyer has explored her music richly. What has he found in it? What influence has it had on him? On his music and his life? Let's listen with him to rare, live recordings of her and find out how and why her work is so fascinating. Tune in this Monday (6/8) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.
Photo credit: Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, 1972. No publishing information available. #WKCR #DeepFocus #VijayIyer #AliceColtrane # AliceColtraneTuriyasangitananda #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
The moment you invoke the name of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, the widow of John Coltrane, you open a door into other ways of understanding. She was part of her husband's last working band, but after his death, and for the next 40 years, her music became suffused with her spiritual practice and mystical experiences. Her conviction was so thorough that some listeners found it alienating, but others were compelled by it. Although she is no longer with us, her music remains a deep well of discovery. Pianist Vijay Iyer has explored her music richly. What has he found in it? What influence has it had on him? On his music and his life? Let's listen with him to rare, live recordings of her and find out how and why her work is so fascinating. Tune in this Monday (6/8) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.
Photo credit: Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, 1972. No publishing information available. #WKCR #DeepFocus #VijayIyer #AliceColtrane # AliceColtraneTuriyasangitananda #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
When they go deep, we go deeper. We have been thinking about Miles Davis in anticipation of his centennial (May 26). How about we explore a dark corner of his vast touring history, his so-called "Lost Quintet"? We have so many questions about it, but who to ask? How about the guy who literally wrote the book on the subject? On this week's Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman welcomes musician/professor/author Michael E. Veal. His book, Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital, opens a door to Miles' confounding and underdocumented 1969 group, whose members all became hugely influential bandleaders in their own right. If only the WKCR archives were overflowing with rare, live recordings of this group. Wait, did anyone check that last shelf on the left? Tune in this Monday (5/25) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: Miles Davis 1970 outside his home, West 77th St., NYC
WKCR #DeepFocus #MichaelEVeal #MilesDavis #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #LostQuintet #WayneShorter #ChickCorea #DaveHolland #JackDeJohnette
When they go deep, we go deeper. We have been thinking about Miles Davis in anticipation of his centennial (May 26). How about we explore a dark corner of his vast touring history, his so-called "Lost Quintet"? We have so many questions about it, but who to ask? How about the guy who literally wrote the book on the subject? On this week's Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman welcomes musician/professor/author Michael E. Veal. His book, Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital, opens a door to Miles' confounding and underdocumented 1969 group, whose members all became hugely influential bandleaders in their own right. If only the WKCR archives were overflowing with rare, live recordings of this group. Wait, did anyone check that last shelf on the left? Tune in this Monday (5/25) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.
Photo credit: Miles Davis 1970 outside his home, West 77th St., NYC
WKCR #DeepFocus #MichaelEVeal #MilesDavis #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #LostQuintet #WayneShorter #ChickCorea #DaveHolland #JackDeJohnette
When they go deep, we go deeper. We have been thinking about Miles Davis in anticipation of his centennial (May 26). How about we explore a dark corner of his vast touring history, his so-called "Lost Quintet"? We have so many questions about it, but who to ask? How about the guy who literally wrote the book on the subject? On this week's Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman welcomes musician/professor/author Michael E. Veal. His book, Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital, opens a door to Miles' confounding and underdocumented 1969 group, whose members all became hugely influential bandleaders in their own right. If only the WKCR archives were overflowing with rare, live recordings of this group. Wait, did anyone check that last shelf on the left? Tune in this Monday (5/25) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 450 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.
Photo credit: Miles Davis 1970 outside his home, West 77th St., NYC
WKCR #DeepFocus #MichaelEVeal #MilesDavis #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #LostQuintet #WayneShorter #ChickCorea #DaveHolland #JackDeJohnette
Fela Kuti has been the subject of at least half a dozen documentaries, a Broadway play, a shelf of books, and at least one richly lauded podcast series. It's hard to imagine a time when Fela would have been considered an obscure musician from a largely unknown continent. But that was very much the case in the seventies when bassist Melvin Gibbs heard his music blasting out of a record store on Nostrand Avenue in his native Brooklyn. The number of Americans who had even heard of Fela, already a superstar in his homeland, Nigeria, was vanishingly small. But a penny dropped. This experience launched Melvin Gibbs on a musical and cultural journey. He has spent half a century exploring the topic of his new book, “How Black Music Took Over the World."
This Monday (4/27), Melvin Gibbs returns to the WKCR studios for a Deep Focus on Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti, with host Mitch Goldman. Will Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of Fela in the WKCR archives? Come on! We all know the answer to that question. Tune in this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 400 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast. Photo credit: Fela Kuti on stage - promotional photo 19 July 1986 - Source- Billboard Jul 19, 1986 p. N-3 - Distributed by Celluloid Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #DeepFocus #MelvinGibbs #HarrietTubman #FelaKuti #FelaAnikulapoKuti #AfroBeat #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #HowBlackMusicTookOverTheWorld
Fela Kuti has been the subject of at least half a dozen documentaries, a Broadway play, a shelf of books, and at least one richly lauded podcast series. It's hard to imagine a time when Fela would have been considered an obscure musician from a largely unknown continent. But that was very much the case in the seventies when bassist Melvin Gibbs heard his music blasting out of a record store on Nostrand Avenue in his native Brooklyn. The number of Americans who had even heard of Fela, already a superstar in his homeland, Nigeria, was vanishingly small. But a penny dropped. This experience launched Melvin Gibbs on a musical and cultural journey. He has spent half a century exploring the topic of his new book, “How Black Music Took Over the World."
This Monday (4/27), Melvin Gibbs returns to the WKCR studios for a Deep Focus on Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti, with host Mitch Goldman. Will Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of Fela in the WKCR archives? Come on! We all know the answer to that question. Tune in this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 400 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast. Photo credit: Fela Kuti on stage - promotional photo 19 July 1986 - Source- Billboard Jul 19, 1986 p. N-3 - Distributed by Celluloid Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #DeepFocus #MelvinGibbs #HarrietTubman #FelaKuti #FelaAnikulapoKuti #AfroBeat #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
Fela Kuti has been the subject of at least half a dozen documentaries, a Broadway play, a shelf of books, and at least one richly lauded podcast series. It's hard to imagine a time when Fela would have been considered an obscure musician from a largely unknown continent. But that was very much the case in the seventies when bassist Melvin Gibbs heard his music blasting out of a record store on Nostrand Avenue in his native Brooklyn. The number of Americans who had even heard of Fela, already a superstar in his homeland, Nigeria, was vanishingly small. But a penny dropped. This experience launched Melvin Gibbs on a musical and cultural journey. He has spent half a century exploring the topic of his new book, “How Black Music Took Over the World."
This Monday (4/27), Melvin Gibbs returns to the WKCR studios for a Deep Focus on Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti, with host Mitch Goldman. Will Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of Fela in the WKCR archives? Come on! We all know the answer to that question. Tune in this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 400 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast. Photo credit: Fela Kuti on stage - promotional photo 19 July 1986 - Source- Billboard Jul 19, 1986 p. N-3 - Distributed by Celluloid Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #DeepFocus #MelvinGibbs #HarrietTubman #FelaKuti #FelaAnikulapoKuti #AfroBeat #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
Throw away the map. Now, how are you going to find your way to your destination? You will probably find many more answers than you may have thought you'd find when you were looking at that folded-up piece of paper. The band Old and New Dreams didn't have to follow chord changes, disregarded time signatures, but their music was full of story-songs, each with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It's four members-- saxophonist Dewey Redman, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Ed Blackwell-- each sang his song in full voice. And when you heard them together, you never wondered if or when you would arrive. You just hoped the journey wouldn't end too soon, even if you knew that it would. Sonic navigator/drummer William Hooker has chosen Old and New Dreams for this week's episode of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus, and Ahmed Abdullah as his surprise guest. Will Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of the band in the WKCR archives? The day will come when his spotless record is going to get besmirched. Oh, let's just hope it's not this week! I guess there's only one way to find out. Tune in this Monday (3/16) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 400 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Instagram @deep_focus_podcast. Photo credit: no known publishing information. #WKCR #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #OldandNewDreams #DeweyRedman #DonCherry #CharlieHaden #EdBlackwell #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #AhmedAbdullah
Throw away the map. Now, how are you going to find your way to your destination? You will probably find many more answers than you may have thought you'd find when you were looking at that folded-up piece of paper. The band Old and New Dreams didn't have to follow chord changes, disregarded time signatures, but their music was full of story-songs, each with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It's four members-- saxophonist Dewey Redman, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Ed Blackwell-- each sang his song in full voice. And when you heard them together, you never wondered if or when you would arrive. You just hoped the journey wouldn't end too soon, even if you knew that it would. Sonic navigator/drummer William Hooker has chosen Old and New Dreams for this week's episode of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus, and Ahmed Abdullah as his surprise guest. Will Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of the band in the WKCR archives? The day will come when his spotless record is going to get besmirched. Oh, let's just hope it's not this week! I guess there's only one way to find out. Tune in this Monday (3/16) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 400 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
Instagram @deep_focus_podcast. Photo credit: no known publishing information. #WKCR #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #OldandNewDreams #DeweyRedman #DonCherry #CharlieHaden #EdBlackwell #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #AhmedAbdullah
Throw away the map. Now, how are you going to find your way to your destination? You will probably find many more answers than you may have thought you'd find when you were looking at that folded-up piece of paper. The band Old and New Dreams didn't have to follow chord changes, disregarded time signatures, but their music was full of story-songs, each with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It's four members-- saxophonist Dewey Redman, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Ed Blackwell-- each sang his song in full voice. And when you heard them together, you never wondered if or when you would arrive. You just hoped the journey wouldn't end too soon, even if you knew that it would. Sonic navigator/drummer William Hooker has chosen Old and New Dreams for this week's episode of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus, and Ahmed Abdullah as his surprise guest. Will Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of the band in the WKCR archives? The day will come when his spotless record is going to get besmirched. Oh, let's just hope it's not this week! I guess there's only one way to find out. Tune in this Monday (3/16) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. It will join over 400 promo-free episodes. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
Instagram @deep_focus_podcast. Photo credit: no known publishing information. #WKCR #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #OldandNewDreams #DeweyRedman #DonCherry #CharlieHaden #EdBlackwell #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #AhmedAbdullah
This episode of Deep Focus has been decades in the making. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman started DJing Monday nights at WKCR in 1985. At that time, he alternated Mondays with fellow WKCR programmer Ethan Singer. Mitch and Ethan soon discovered that they both loved a lot of the same music and both loved the live music experience. They merged forces and started producing a show with live sessions called "Monday Live" (a format and name first created by Andy Caploe several years earlier). Together, Mitch and Ethan produced dozens and dozens of live sets that still populate the WKCR archives. All was well until the early 2000s, when real life interceded, and Ethan relocated to the West Coast. Monday Live was no more. After a brief but intense existential crisis, Mitch created Deep Focus, but the great memories of working with Ethan never faded for him. At long last, this Monday, Mitch welcomes Ethan Singer to the WKCR studios as co-host of Deep Focus. And what an episode this one will be. Last May, bandleader Eric Person joined Mitch for a Deep Focus on fellow saxophonist Eddie Harris. This Deep Focus was a revelation. Not only was he an inventive instrumentalist, but a technologist, a singular bandleader, a sonic explorer. Who knew that Eddie Harris was such a fount of creativity? Eric Person, that's who! Fortunately, the WKCR archives yielded more rare, live Eddie Harris recordings than Mitch and Eric were able to play on that 3-hour show, so this Monday will be part 2. Mitch and Eric assure the listeners that they have saved the best for last. Tune in this Monday (3/2) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Instagram @deep_focus_podcast. Photo credit: courtesy of eddieharris.com. #WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #EddieHarris #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #EthanSinger Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
This episode of Deep Focus has been decades in the making. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman started DJing Monday nights at WKCR in 1985. At that time, he alternated Mondays with fellow WKCR programmer Ethan Singer. Mitch and Ethan soon discovered that they both loved a lot of the same music and both loved the live music experience. They merged forces and started producing a show with live sessions called "Monday Live" (a format and name first created by Andy Caploe several years earlier). Together, Mitch and Ethan produced dozens and dozens of live sets that still populate the WKCR archives. All was well until the early 2000s, when real life interceded, and Ethan relocated to the West Coast. Monday Live was no more. After a brief but intense existential crisis, Mitch created Deep Focus, but the great memories of working with Ethan never faded for him. At long last, this Monday, Mitch welcomes Ethan Singer to the WKCR studios as co-host of Deep Focus. And what an episode this one will be. Last May, bandleader Eric Person joined Mitch for a Deep Focus on fellow saxophonist Eddie Harris. This Deep Focus was a revelation. Not only was he an inventive instrumentalist, but a technologist, a singular bandleader, a sonic explorer. Who knew that Eddie Harris was such a fount of creativity? Eric Person, that's who! Fortunately, the WKCR archives yielded more rare, live Eddie Harris recordings than Mitch and Eric were able to play on that 3-hour show, so this Monday will be part 2. Mitch and Eric assure the listeners that they have saved the best for last. Tune in this Monday (3/2) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Instagram @deep_focus_podcast. Photo credit: courtesy of eddieharris.com. #WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #EddieHarris #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman #EthanSinger Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
This episode of Deep Focus has been decades in the making. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman started DJing Monday nights at WKCR in 1985. At that time, he alternated Mondays with fellow WKCR programmer Ethan Singer. Mitch and Ethan soon discovered that they both loved a lot of the same music and both loved the live music experience. They merged forces and started producing a show with live sessions called "Monday Live" (a format and name first created by Andy Caploe several years earlier). Together, Mitch and Ethan produced dozens and dozens of live sets that still populate the WKCR archives. All was well until the early 2000s, when real life interceded, and Ethan relocated to the West Coast. Monday Live was no more. After a brief but intense existential crisis, Mitch created Deep Focus, but the great memories of working with Ethan never faded for him. At long last, this Monday, Mitch welcomes Ethan Singer to the WKCR studios as co-host of Deep Focus. And what an episode this one will be. Last May, bandleader Eric Person joined Mitch for a Deep Focus on fellow saxophonist Eddie Harris. This Deep Focus was a revelation. Not only was he an inventive instrumentalist, but a technologist, a singular bandleader, a sonic explorer. Who knew that Eddie Harris was such a fount of creativity? Eric Person, that's who! Fortunately, the WKCR archives yielded more rare, live Eddie Harris recordings than Mitch and Eric were able to play on that 3-hour show, so this Monday will be part 2. Mitch and Eric assure the listeners that they have saved the best for last. Tune in this Monday (3/2) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, sponsor-free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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The music, the people playing it, and the audience are all in a state of total oneness. It's a spontaneous improvisation as delicate as an eggshell. You're almost afraid to breathe lest this moment dissolve, and we are all dropped back to the cold earth. Then you open your eyes to see that the bassist is Charlie Haden, and you know that this moment will not end until its time has come, because Charlie Haden practically discovered this sense of the sublime in music for us. He seems to create it at will. Steve Slagle knows this experience well. He played in Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Steve searches the WKCR archives for live, unreleased recordings of Charlie Haden with host Mitch Goldman, this Monday (2/2) on Deep Focus. Tune in Monday (Feb 2) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
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The music, the people playing it, and the audience are all in a state of total oneness. It's a spontaneous improvisation as delicate as an eggshell. You're almost afraid to breathe lest this moment dissolve, and we are all dropped back to the cold earth. Then you open your eyes to see that the bassist is Charlie Haden, and you know that this moment will not end until its time has come, because Charlie Haden practically discovered this sense of the sublime in music for us. He seems to create it at will. Steve Slagle knows this experience well. He played in Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Steve searches the WKCR archives for live, unreleased recordings of Charlie Haden with host Mitch Goldman, this Monday (2/2) on Deep Focus. Tune in Monday (Feb 2) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. You can also uncover over 400 episodes of Deep Focus. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, sponsor-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: Charlie Haden 1981 by Brianmcmillen CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-0-3.0. #WKCR #DeepFocus #CharlieHaden #SteveSlagle #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
The music, the people playing it, and the audience are all in a state of total oneness. It's a spontaneous improvisation as delicate as an eggshell. You're almost afraid to breathe lest this moment dissolve, and we are all dropped back to the cold earth. Then you open your eyes to see that the bassist is Charlie Haden, and you know that this moment will not end until its time has come, because Charlie Haden practically discovered this sense of the sublime in music for us. He seems to create it at will. Steve Slagle knows this experience well. He played in Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Steve searches the WKCR archives for live, unreleased recordings of Charlie Haden with host Mitch Goldman, this Monday (2/2) on Deep Focus. Tune in Monday (Feb 2) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. You can also uncover over 400 episodes of Deep Focus. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, sponsor-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an ensemble, and to hear it performed in real time? How would you go about that? You would have to have an entire group imagining together. Lawrence "Butch" Morris did it by creating a compositional language that allowed him to convey musical ideas using physical gestures. His system, which he called "Conduction," was immediately transformative. He created compositions in real time that were shaped by the musical language and the performances of the participating musicians. It was an unprecedented musical spontaneity. Butch Morris died in 2013, but Conduction is still making new breakthroughs in the hands of successive generations of musical thinkers. Violinist/composer Mazz Swift, who worked with Butch Morris, is one of them. New forms and ideas continually emerge, and Butch Morris endures as a shaping influence. This Monday (Jan. 19), Mazz Swift joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Butch Morris. Do the vast WKCR archives contain live, unreleased recordings of Butch Morris? We certainly hope so! Tune in to find out. Deep Focus this Monday (Jan 19) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
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Photo credit: Butch Morris - photo by Anthony Barboza - nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.157.7 fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. #WKCR #DeepFocus #ButchMorris #LawrenceButchMorris #MazzSwift #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an ensemble, and to hear it performed in real time? How would you go about that? You would have to have an entire group imagining together. Lawrence "Butch" Morris did it by creating a compositional language that allowed him to convey musical ideas using physical gestures. His system, which he called "Conduction," was immediately transformative. He created compositions in real time that were shaped by the musical language and the performances of the participating musicians. It was an unprecedented musical spontaneity. Butch Morris died in 2013, but Conduction is still making new breakthroughs in the hands of successive generations of musical thinkers. Violinist/composer Mazz Swift, who worked with Butch Morris, is one of them. New forms and ideas continually emerge, and Butch Morris endures as a shaping influence. This Monday (Jan. 19), Mazz Swift joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Butch Morris. Do the vast WKCR archives contain live, unreleased recordings of Butch Morris? We certainly hope so! Tune in to find out. Deep Focus this Monday (Jan 19) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, sponsor-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: Butch Morris - photo by Anthony Barboza - nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.157.7 fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. #WKCR #DeepFocus #ButchMorris #LawrenceButchMorris #MazzSwift #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an ensemble, and to hear it performed in real time? How would you go about that? You would have to have an entire group imagining together. Lawrence "Butch" Morris did it by creating a compositional language that allowed him to convey musical ideas using physical gestures. His system, which he called "Conduction," was immediately transformative. He created compositions in real time that were shaped by the musical language and the performances of the participating musicians. It was an unprecedented musical spontaneity. Butch Morris died in 2013, but Conduction is still making new breakthroughs in the hands of successive generations of musical thinkers. Violinist/composer Mazz Swift, who worked with Butch Morris, is one of them. New forms and ideas continually emerge, and Butch Morris endures as a shaping influence. This Monday (Jan. 19), Mazz Swift joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Butch Morris. Do the vast WKCR archives contain live, unreleased recordings of Butch Morris? We certainly hope so! Tune in to find out. Deep Focus this Monday (Jan 19) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, sponsor-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: Butch Morris - photo by Anthony Barboza - nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.157.7 fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. #WKCR #DeepFocus #ButchMorris #LawrenceButchMorris #MazzSwift #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an ensemble, and to hear it performed in real time? How would you go about that? You would have to have an entire group imagining together. Lawrence "Butch" Morris did it by creating a compositional language that allowed him to convey musical ideas using physical gestures. His system, which he called "Conduction," was immediately transformative. He created compositions in real time that were shaped by the musical language and the performances of the participating musicians. It was an unprecedented musical spontaneity. Butch Morris died in 2013, but Conduction is still making new breakthroughs in the hands of successive generations of musical thinkers. Violinist/composer Mazz Swift, who worked with Butch Morris, is one of them. New forms and ideas continually emerge, and Butch Morris endures as a shaping influence. This Monday (Jan. 19), Mazz Swift joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Butch Morris. Do the vast WKCR archives contain live, unreleased recordings of Butch Morris? We certainly hope so! Tune in to find out. Deep Focus this Monday (Jan 19) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, sponsor-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about these cultural collisions. His band Free Spirits was arguably the first to combine rock and jazz elements, and his oft-covered song Witchitai-To is perhaps the only hit to feature an authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop charts (we sure can't think of another one; can you?). Yes, this man changed the world, at least twice! This spirit of discovery and of sharing culture is what this episode of Deep Focus is all about. Fellow multi-reedman Jay Rodriguez knows. You know him as a founding member of Groove Collective, but this three-time Grammy nominee has also played with everyone from Prince to Stevie Wonder, Celia Cruz to Gil Evans. He's one of the cats. Jay Rodriguez joins host Mitch Goldman in the studios of WKCR to explore the soul and the legacy of Jim Pepper through live, unreleased recordings from the archives. Deep Focus this Monday (Jan 5) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
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Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about these cultural collisions. His band Free Spirits was arguably the first to combine rock and jazz elements, and his oft-covered song Witchitai-To is perhaps the only hit to feature an authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop charts (we sure can't think of another one; can you?). Yes, this man changed the world, at least twice! This spirit of discovery and of sharing culture is what this episode of Deep Focus is all about. Fellow multi-reedman Jay Rodriguez-Sierra knows. You know him as a founding member of Groove Collective, but this three-time Grammy nominee has also played with everyone from Prince to Stevie Wonder, Celia Cruz to Gil Evans. He's one of the cats. Jay Rodriguez-Sierra joins host Mitch Goldman in the studios of WKCR to explore the soul and the legacy of Jim Pepper through live, unreleased recordings from the archives. Deep Focus this Monday (Jan 5) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about these cultural collisions. His band Free Spirits was arguably the first to combine rock and jazz elements, and his oft-covered song Witchitai-To is perhaps the only hit to feature an authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop charts (we sure can't think of another one; can you?). Yes, this man changed the world, at least twice! This spirit of discovery and of sharing culture is what this episode of Deep Focus is all about. Fellow multi-reedman Jay Rodriguez knows. You know him as a founding member of Groove Collective, but this three-time Grammy nominee has also played with everyone from Prince to Stevie Wonder, Celia Cruz to Gil Evans. He's one of the cats. Jay Rodriguez joins host Mitch Goldman in the studios of WKCR to explore the soul and the legacy of Jim Pepper through live, unreleased recordings from the archives. Deep Focus this Monday (Jan 5) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was not always accepted as truth. It was only developed in 1967, but once geophysicists saw how accurately it described familiar phenomena, there was no going back. At the exact same time, Jack DeJohnette was emerging as a new force on drums. His percussive vigor and complexity were profoundly unsettling to those who relied on the familiar swing beats of the music of previous decades. But it was a new time; there were new issues to address. There was no going back. Had Jack DeJohnette done only that, it would have made him at least a minor legend among the cognoscenti. But the fact that he had a long, fruitful career-- leading many bands, composing, collaborating, bringing younger musicians along-- made him something much, much more. Will Calhoun is one of those younger musicians. A storied drummer, as DeJohnette was, Calhoun is best known for driving the band Living Colour, but his curiosity and range of exploration know no bounds. Let's hear about the doors and windows that DeJohnette opened for him, with freshly unearthed live recordings from the WKCR archives. This Monday (12/22) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
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Photo credit: Jack DeJohnette by Isio Saba - Personal archive photo via jackdejohnette.com.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JackDeJohnette #WillCalhoun #LivingColour #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was not always accepted as truth. It was only developed in 1967, but once geophysicists saw how accurately it described familiar phenomena, there was no going back. At the exact same time, Jack DeJohnette was emerging as a new force on drums. His percussive vigor and complexity were profoundly unsettling to those who relied on the familiar swing beats of the music of previous decades. But it was a new time; there were new issues to address. There was no going back. Had Jack DeJohnette done only that, it would have made him at least a minor legend among the cognoscenti. But the fact that he had a long, fruitful career-- leading many bands, composing, collaborating, bringing younger musicians along-- made him something much, much more. Will Calhoun is one of those younger musicians. A storied drummer, as DeJohnette was, Calhoun is best known for driving the band Living Colour, but his curiosity and range of exploration know no bounds. Let's hear about the doors and windows that DeJohnette opened for him, with freshly unearthed live recordings from the WKCR archives. This Monday (12/22) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: Jack DeJohnette by Isio Saba - Personal archive photo via jackdejohnette.com.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JackDeJohnette #WillCalhoun #LivingColour #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was not always accepted as truth. It was only developed in 1967, but once geophysicists saw how accurately it described familiar phenomena, there was no going back. At the exact same time, Jack DeJohnette was emerging as a new force on drums. His percussive vigor and complexity were profoundly unsettling to those who relied on the familiar swing beats of the music of previous decades. But it was a new time; there were new issues to address. There was no going back. Had Jack DeJohnette done only that, it would have made him at least a minor legend among the cognoscenti. But the fact that he had a long, fruitful career-- leading many bands, composing, collaborating, bringing younger musicians along-- made him something much, much more. Will Calhoun is one of those younger musicians. A storied drummer, as DeJohnette was, Calhoun is best known for driving the band Living Colour, but his curiosity and range of exploration know no bounds. Let's hear about the doors and windows that DeJohnette opened for him, with freshly unearthed live recordings from the WKCR archives. This Monday (12/22) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: Jack DeJohnette by Isio Saba - Personal archive photo via jackdejohnette.com.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JackDeJohnette #WillCalhoun #LivingColour #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
Listen to Henry Threadgill's music. What a phantasmagoria of splendors and esoterica must animate his mind! Don't you just want to go to that place? Maybe for a night out on the town? Or a picnic in The Secret Garden? Aren't you curious about where his inspiration comes from? You could read his autobiography, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music (in fact, we recommend you do), but why don't you spend some time with Henry, listening to music that he loves? This Monday (11/24), for Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus, Henry Threadgill has chosen the music of Ahmad Jamal. Can Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of Ahmad Jamal in the WKCR archives that even his greatest fans have never heard? He hasn't failed us yet, but this one's a tall order. Find out Monday from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
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Photo credit: Henry Threadgill - photo by Alan Nahigian. Courtesy of Pi Recordings.
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Listen to Henry Threadgill's music. What a phantasmagoria of splendors and esoterica must animate his mind! Don't you just want to go to that place? Maybe for a night out on the town? Or a picnic in The Secret Garden? Aren't you curious about where his inspiration comes from? You could read his autobiography, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music (in fact, we recommend you do), but why don't you spend some time with Henry, listening to music that he loves? This Monday (11/24), for Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus, Henry Threadgill has chosen the music of Ahmad Jamal. Can Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of Ahmad Jamal in the WKCR archives that even his greatest fans have never heard? He hasn't failed us yet, but this one's a tall order. Find out Monday from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Photo credit: Henry Threadgill - photo by Alan Nahigian. Courtesy of Pi Recordings.
WKCR #DeepFocus #AhmadJamal #HenryThreadgill #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman Deep Focus is a production of Small Media Large.
Listen to Henry Threadgill's music. What a phantasmagoria of splendors and esoterica must animate his mind! Don't you just want to go to that place? Maybe for a night out on the town? Or a picnic in The Secret Garden? Aren't you curious about where his inspiration comes from? You could read his autobiography, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music (in fact, we recommend you do), but why don't you spend some time with Henry, listening to music that he loves? This Monday (11/24), for Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus, Henry Threadgill has chosen the music of Ahmad Jamal. Can Mitch find live, unreleased recordings of Ahmad Jamal in the WKCR archives that even his greatest fans have never heard? He hasn't failed us yet, but this one's a tall order. Find out Monday from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there. The risks are concealed until it's too late to turn back. That's one thing when it's your pursuit. What about when it's someone else's vision, and you need to lead them through it? What do you do? Just dive into the Vast Empty? Yes, you do if you're trombonist Craig Harris! He has been doing exactly that with reedman David Murray for nearly 50 years. The two of them have brought listeners through more outlands than AI ever will. Craig Harris joins host Mitch Goldman on a quest through the WKCR archives this Monday on Deep Focus. What's hiding in there? Live, unreleased recordings of David Murray's Big Band? His Octet Maybe? Who can say? Tune in Monday Nov.10 from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org and find out.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there. The risks are concealed until it's too late to turn back. That's one thing when it's your pursuit. What about when it's someone else's vision, and you need to lead them through it? What do you do? Just dive into the Vast Empty? Yes, you do if you're trombonist Craig Harris! He has been doing exactly that with reedman David Murray for nearly 50 years. The two of them have brought listeners through more outlands than AI ever will. Craig Harris joins host Mitch Goldman on a quest through the WKCR archives this Monday on Deep Focus. What's hiding in there? Live, unreleased recordings of David Murray's Big Band? His Octet Maybe? Who can say? Tune in Monday Nov.10 from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org and find out.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there. The risks are concealed until it's too late to turn back. That's one thing when it's your pursuit. What about when it's someone else's vision, and you need to lead them through it? What do you do? Just dive into the Vast Empty? Yes, you do if you're trombonist Craig Harris! He has been doing exactly that with reedman David Murray for nearly 50 years. The two of them have brought listeners through more outlands than AI ever will. Craig Harris joins host Mitch Goldman on a quest through the WKCR archives this Monday on Deep Focus. What's hiding in there? Live, unreleased recordings of David Murray's Big Band? His Octet Maybe? Who can say? Tune in Monday Nov.10 from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org and find out.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game. Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time for Larry Young to learn the idiom of the Hammond B-3 organ, and he learned his lessons well. His early records embody the soul-jazz organ trio sound made popular by Jimmy Smith.
But as the sound of the sixties emerged, Larry Young (also known by his Muslim name, Khalid Yasin Abdul Aziz) was reaching for something more. His journey, including hours of conversation and jam sessions with spiritual avatar John Coltrane, brought about an expanded consciousness that revealed itself in his music. Larry Young pulled an unmistakably boisterous explosion of sound through the B-3. He showed new horizons that fellow organists have been pursuing for more than half a century. Brian Charette is one of them. He is not only an endlessly inventive multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, but also one of our best students of the music's history. He joins host Mitch Goldman on this week's Deep Focus. Did the WKCR archives provide recordings of Larry Young and John Coltrane's private sessions? Unfortunately, none are known to exist. Do we have rare recordings of Larry Young and Jimi Hendrix pushing each other in new directions? Find out Monday (10/27) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game. Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time for Larry Young to learn the idiom of the Hammond B-3 organ, and he learned his lessons well. His early records embody the soul-jazz organ trio sound made popular by Jimmy Smith.
But as the sound of the sixties emerged, Larry Young (also known by his Muslim name, Khalid Yasin Abdul Aziz) was reaching for something more. His journey, including hours of conversation and jam sessions with spiritual avatar John Coltrane, brought about an expanded consciousness that revealed itself in his music. Larry Young pulled an unmistakably boisterous explosion of sound through the B-3. He showed new horizons that fellow organists have been pursuing for more than half a century. Brian Charette is one of them. He is not only an endlessly inventive multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, but also one of our best students of the music's history. He joins host Mitch Goldman on this week's Deep Focus. Did the WKCR archives provide recordings of Larry Young and John Coltrane's private sessions? Unfortunately, none are known to exist. Do we have rare recordings of Larry Young and Jimi Hendrix pushing each other in new directions? Find out Monday (10/27) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game. Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time for Larry Young to learn the idiom of the Hammond B-3 organ, and he learned his lessons well. His early records embody the soul-jazz organ trio sound made popular by Jimmy Smith.
But as the sound of the sixties emerged, Larry Young (also known by his Muslim name, Khalid Yasin Abdul Aziz) was reaching for something more. His journey, including hours of conversation and jam sessions with spiritual avatar John Coltrane, brought about an expanded consciousness that revealed itself in his music. Larry Young pulled an unmistakably boisterous explosion of sound through the B-3. He showed new horizons that fellow organists have been pursuing for more than half a century. Brian Charette is one of them. He is not only an endlessly inventive multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, but also one of our best students of the music's history. He joins host Mitch Goldman on this week's Deep Focus. Did the WKCR archives provide recordings of Larry Young and John Coltrane's private sessions? Unfortunately, none are known to exist. Do we have rare recordings of Larry Young and Jimi Hendrix pushing each other in new directions? Find out Monday (10/27) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid and host Mitch Goldman plunge into the WKCR archives in search of rare, live recordings. Some of them might even feature Vernon's early spirit guide and Blood's fellow Prime Timer, Ronald Shannon Jackson. Now, for those of you who can't stand the suspense of waiting for Monday, here's one possible answer to that question: there is no "A" James Blood Ulmer. There is only "THE" James Blood Ulmer. He is and always will be in a class of exactly one. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid and host Mitch Goldman plunge into the WKCR archives in search of rare, live recordings. Some of them might even feature Vernon's early spirit guide and Blood's fellow Prime Timer, Ronald Shannon Jackson. Now, for those of you who can't stand the suspense of waiting for Monday, here's one possible answer to that question: there is no "A" James Blood Ulmer. There is only "THE" James Blood Ulmer. He is and always will be in a class of exactly one. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid and host Mitch Goldman plunge into the WKCR archives in search of rare, live recordings. Some of them might even feature Vernon's early spirit guide and Blood's fellow Prime Timer, Ronald Shannon Jackson. Now, for those of you who can't stand the suspense of waiting for Monday, here's one possible answer to that question: there is no "A" James Blood Ulmer. There is only "THE" James Blood Ulmer. He is and always will be in a class of exactly one. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. Just like WKCR, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be? Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those shadowy corners, those Edge Cities, where new things start to happen. And who embodied this idea more than drummer Tony Williams' late sixties supergroup, Lifetime? Lifetime inspired another supergroup in 2008 when guitarist Vernon Reid and bassist Jack Bruce (himself a member of Lifetime) formed Spectrum Road with drummer Cindy Blackman and keyboard conjurer John Medeski. Did these 4 masters of many musical disciplines present faithful recreations of Lifetime's original recordings? Or did their live shows start where Lifetime ended, and end up in the highest towers of their own Edge City? Mitch's guest, guitarist Ben Tyree, knows the answer. Ben has shared stages with and drawn inspiration from at least 2 of these 4 innovators. He credits John Medeski with inspiring his life-changing move to New York City. And will the WKCR archives yield live, unreleased recordings that will bear him out? We don't know ourselves, and the suspense is just killing us! Find out Monday (9/1) when Mitch Goldman and Ben Tyree plunge into the vast WKCR archive. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be? Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those shadowy corners, those Edge Cities, where new things start to happen. And who embodied this idea more than drummer Tony Williams' late sixties supergroup, Lifetime? Lifetime inspired another supergroup in 2008 when guitarist Vernon Reid and bassist Jack Bruce (himself a member of Lifetime) formed Spectrum Road with drummer Cindy Blackman and keyboard conjurer John Medeski. Did these 4 masters of many musical disciplines present faithful recreations of Lifetime's original recordings? Or did their live shows start where Lifetime ended, and end up in the highest towers of their own Edge City? Mitch's guest, guitarist Ben Tyree, knows the answer. Ben has shared stages with and drawn inspiration from at least 2 of these 4 innovators. He credits John Medeski with inspiring his life-changing move to New York City. And will the WKCR archives yield live, unreleased recordings that will bear him out? We don't know ourselves, and the suspense is just killing us! Find out Monday (9/1) when Mitch Goldman and Ben Tyree plunge into the vast WKCR archive. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be? Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those shadowy corners, those Edge Cities, where new things start to happen. And who embodied this idea more than drummer Tony Williams' late sixties supergroup, Lifetime? Lifetime inspired another supergroup in 2008 when guitarist Vernon Reid and bassist Jack Bruce (himself a member of Lifetime) formed Spectrum Road with drummer Cindy Blackman and keyboard conjurer John Medeski. Did these 4 masters of many musical disciplines present faithful recreations of Lifetime's original recordings? Or did their live shows start where Lifetime ended, and end up in the highest towers of their own Edge City? Mitch's guest, guitarist Ben Tyree, knows the answer. Ben has shared stages with and drawn inspiration from at least 2 of these 4 innovators. He credits John Medeski with inspiring his life-changing move to New York City. And will the WKCR archives yield live, unreleased recordings that will bear him out? We don't know ourselves, and the suspense is just killing us! Find out Monday (9/1) when Mitch Goldman and Ben Tyree plunge into the vast WKCR archive. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD, or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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How is it possible that you have never heard guitarist Jef Lee Johnson? He was as incendiary and as nakedly original as any soloist you have ever heard (absolutely any!). But his greater distinction might have been his songwriting. You don’t learn to write songs that are that revealing, that insightful, that cleverly put-together, and that hilariously funny, just by working at it. First, you have to have the wisdom, and Jef had it pouring out of him. It seemed as if he couldn’t make it stop if he wanted to.
Jef toured and recorded for decades, but, for whatever reason, he never broke through the way many of us thought he should have. One person who got to witness the artistry up close was fellow guitarist Bob Dee. The two shared the front line in Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society, and Bob has never forgotten a moment of what he saw and heard. Bob joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus that continues the WKCR Lost Masters tradition.
Join us Monday (8/18) when Mitch Goldman and Bob Dee unearth live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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How is it possible that you have never heard guitarist Jef Lee Johnson? He was as incendiary and as nakedly original as any soloist you have ever heard (absolutely any!). But his greater distinction might have been his songwriting. You don’t learn to write songs that are that revealing, that insightful, that cleverly put-together, and that hilariously funny, just by working at it. First, you have to have the wisdom, and Jef had it pouring out of him. It seemed as if he couldn’t make it stop if he wanted to.
Jef toured and recorded for decades, but, for whatever reason, he never broke through the way many of us thought he should have. One person who got to witness the artistry up close was fellow guitarist Bob Dee. The two shared the front line in Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society, and Bob has never forgotten a moment of what he saw and heard. Bob joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus that continues the WKCR Lost Masters tradition.
Join us Monday (8/18) when Mitch Goldman and Bob Dee unearth live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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How is it possible that you have never heard guitarist Jef Lee Johnson? He was as incendiary and as nakedly original as any soloist you have ever heard (absolutely any!). But his greater distinction might have been his songwriting. You don’t learn to write songs that are that revealing, that insightful, that cleverly put-together, and that hilariously funny, just by working at it. First, you have to have the wisdom, and Jef had it pouring out of him. It seemed as if he couldn’t make it stop if he wanted to.
Jef toured and recorded for decades, but, for whatever reason, he never broke through the way many of us thought he should have. One person who got to witness the artistry up close was fellow guitarist Bob Dee. The two shared the front line in Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society, and Bob has never forgotten a moment of what he saw and heard. Bob joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus that continues the WKCR Lost Masters tradition.
Join us Monday (8/18) when Mitch Goldman and Bob Dee unearth live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.
Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Ornette Coleman, one of our brightest lights, died in June of 2015. Here is a Deep Focus from August of that year, with Eric Person as my guest, remembering Ornette. This show features a beautiful live recording from 1978. Officially, his band is listed as the Ornette Coleman Sextet, but his fans know them as Prime Time.
Ornette Coleman, one of our brightest lights, died in June of 2015. Here is a Deep Focus from August of that year, with Eric Person as my guest, remembering Ornette. This show features a beautiful live recording from 1978. Officially, his band is listed as the Ornette Coleman Sextet, but his fans know them as Prime Time.
Ornette Coleman, one of our brightest lights, died in June of 2015. Here is a Deep Focus from August of that year with Eric Person as my guest, remembering Ornette. This show features a beautiful live recording from 1978. Officially, his band is listed as the Ornette Coleman Sextet, but his fans know them as Prime Time.
This is a rare treat: a former subject of Deep Focus becomes the guest. In 2016, drummer Will Calhoun was our guest for a Deep Focus on one of his heroes, Elvin Jones. Will brought a cassette of a set of music that he had heard as a teenager at the Village Vanguard. At the time, Elvin had an emerging guitarist with a sound entirely unlike that of anyone else who had ever picked up the instrument. For the audience and for this young man, every note that he played brought an amazed sense of wonder and discovery. Little did Will know that, in the years to come, the world would discover Jean-Paul Bourelly's talent, and that he would become a lifelong friend and collaborator. Jean-Paul's music, informed by his Haitian and Chicago Blues roots, as well as hip-hop, West African traditions, and his own unbridled creative imagination, is still immediately recognizable and entirely beyond category. What a privilege to have him on Deep Focus. Join us Monday (7/21) when Mitch Goldman hosts Jean-Paul Bourelly on Deep Focus and unearths live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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This is a rare treat: a former subject of Deep Focus becomes the guest. In 2016, drummer Will Calhoun was our guest for a Deep Focus on one of his heroes, Elvin Jones. Will brought a cassette of a set of music that he had heard as a teenager at the Village Vanguard. At the time, Elvin had an emerging guitarist with a sound entirely unlike that of anyone else who had ever picked up the instrument. For the audience and for this young man, every note that he played brought an amazed sense of wonder and discovery. Little did Will know that, in the years to come, the world would discover Jean-Paul Bourelly's talent, and that he would become a lifelong friend and collaborator. Jean-Paul's music, informed by his Haitian and Chicago Blues roots, as well as hip-hop, West African traditions, and his own unbridled creative imagination, is still immediately recognizable and entirely beyond category. What a privilege to have him on Deep Focus. Join us Monday (7/21) when Mitch Goldman hosts Jean-Paul Bourelly on Deep Focus and unearths live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
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This is a rare treat: a former subject of Deep Focus becomes the guest. In 2016, drummer Will Calhoun was our guest for a Deep Focus on one of his heroes, Elvin Jones. Will brought a cassette of a set of music that he had heard as a teenager at the Village Vanguard. At the time, Elvin had an emerging guitarist with a sound entirely unlike that of anyone else who had ever picked up the instrument. For the audience and for this young man, every note that he played brought an amazed sense of wonder and discovery. Little did Will know that, in the years to come, the world would discover Jean-Paul Bourelly's talent, and that he would become a lifelong friend and collaborator. Jean-Paul's music, informed by his Haitian and Chicago Blues roots, as well as hip-hop, West African traditions, and his own unbridled creative imagination, is still immediately recognizable and entirely beyond category. What a privilege to have him on Deep Focus. Join us Monday (7/21) when Mitch Goldman hosts Jean-Paul Bourelly on Deep Focus and unearths live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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When Mitch Goldman invited Roy Campbell to be his guest on Deep Focus, he knew that Roy was a master student of the entire history of the music, but he had no idea that Roy knew Woody Shaw personally. Stunning tales of Ornette Coleman, Lee Morgan, and others emerge in this remarkable program, recorded not 2 months before Roy Campbell's tragic early passing. Roy, you are missed!
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When Mitch Goldman invited Roy Campbell to be his guest on Deep Focus, he knew that Roy was a master student of the entire history of the music, but he had no idea that Roy knew Woody Shaw personally. Stunning tales of Ornette Coleman, Lee Morgan, and others emerge in this remarkable program, recorded not 2 months before Roy Campbell's tragic early passing. Roy, you are missed!
When Mitch Goldman invited Roy Campbell to be his guest on Deep Focus, he knew that Roy was a master student of the entire history of the music, but he had no idea that Roy knew Woody Shaw personally. Stunning tales of Ornette Coleman, Lee Morgan, and others emerge in this remarkable program, recorded not 2 months before Roy Campbell's tragic early passing. Roy, you are missed!
In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Both were in their thirties, both had played emerging electric music with Miles Davis after having established their Jazz bona fides, both led successful fusion bands (Chick with Return To Forever, Herbie with his Head Hunters band), and each had a distinctive voice on the keyboard. How stunning must it have been in 1978 when they announced a joint recording and touring project? Just two geniuses on stage at two concert grand pianos. If that's not catnip for an eager young pianist, we don't know what is! You better believe that, when they came to Philadelphia, Uri Caine was in the house. I mean, the guy is still talking about it! What did he hear? What was the big deal? Find out Monday (5/26) when Mitch Goldman hosts Uri Caine on Deep Focus and unearths live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Please note: this will be a live broadcast. This show was rescheduled after a previously scheduled broadcast was postponed. Photo credit: no publishing information available. #WKCR #DeepFocus #/UriCaine #HerbieHancock #ChickCorea #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman
In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Both were in their thirties, both had played emerging electric music with Miles Davis after having established their Jazz bona fides, both led successful fusion bands (Chick with Return To Forever, Herbie with his Head Hunters band), and each had a distinctive voice on the keyboard. How stunning must it have been in 1978 when they announced a joint recording and touring project? Just two geniuses on stage at two concert grand pianos. If that's not catnip for an eager young pianist, we don't know what is! You better believe that, when they came to Philadelphia, Uri Caine was in the house. I mean, the guy is still talking about it! What did he hear? What was the big deal? Find out Monday (5/26) when Mitch Goldman hosts Uri Caine on Deep Focus and unearths live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Both were in their thirties, both had played emerging electric music with Miles Davis after having established their Jazz bona fides, both led successful fusion bands (Chick with Return To Forever, Herbie with his Head Hunters band), and each had a distinctive voice on the keyboard. How stunning must it have been in 1978 when they announced a joint recording and touring project? Just two geniuses on stage at two concert grand pianos. If that's not catnip for an eager young pianist, we don't know what is! You better believe that, when they came to Philadelphia, Uri Caine was in the house. I mean, the guy is still talking about it! What did he hear? What was the big deal? Find out Monday (5/26) when Mitch Goldman hosts Uri Caine on Deep Focus and unearths live, unreleased recordings. Deep Focus airs Mondays from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests." Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric Person We couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris a good, hard listen? This Monday (5/12) from 6p to 9p NYC time, host Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person to the WKCR studios for a powerful Deep Focus. If only they had rare, unreleased recordings of Eddie Harris from the WKCR archives. Hmmm... We'll have to work on that! Tune in this Monday (4/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests." Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric Person We couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris a good, hard listen? This Monday (5/12) from 6p to 9p NYC time, host Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person to the WKCR studios for a powerful Deep Focus. If only they had rare, unreleased recordings of Eddie Harris from the WKCR archives. Hmmm... We'll have to work on that! Tune in this Monday (4/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests." Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric Person We couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris a good, hard listen? This Monday (5/12) from 6p to 9p NYC time, host Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person to the WKCR studios for a powerful Deep Focus. If only they had rare, unreleased recordings of Eddie Harris from the WKCR archives. Hmmm... We'll have to work on that! Tune in this Monday (4/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Here it is: the very first episode of Deep Focus ever, and it's a killer! Graham Haynes is the guest and Ed Blackwell is the subject.
First-hand stories about Blackwell? Yes!
Don Cherry? Yes!
Lester Bowie? Yes!
Carlos Ward? Yes!
Roy Haynes? Yes!
Fantastic music that we've never heard? What do you think? Tune in to find out.
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Here it is: the very first episode of Deep Focus ever, and it's a killer! Graham Haynes is the guest and Ed Blackwell is the subject.
First-hand stories about Blackwell? Yes!
Don Cherry? Yes!
Lester Bowie? Yes!
Carlos Ward? Yes!
Roy Haynes? Yes!
Fantastic music that we've never heard? What do you think? Tune in to find out.
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Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.
It's impossible to distinguish between Randy Weston's musical innovations and his conception of the world he was born into. To say that the roots of jazz are in West Africa is hardly a groundbreaking statement nowadays, but it was a mostly unfamiliar notion when he started to say it in the 1950's. It's easy to hear it now, especially when you listen to Weston's 6+ decade discography. It's in his percussive compositions and it's in the story of his life, making music with players from throughout the African diaspora. To this day, musicians are walking through the doors he opened, more than 6 years after his death at age 92. Pianist Vijay Iyer chose Randy Weston for this Monday's Deep Focus with host Mitch Goldman. What inspired him to make that choice? Was it Weston's distinctive touch on the piano? The warmth and humanity that he exudes? Or maybe just pure admiration for one who always charted his own path? To find out, tune in this Monday (3/24) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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It's impossible to distinguish between Randy Weston's musical innovations and his conception of the world he was born into. To say that the roots of jazz are in West Africa is hardly a groundbreaking statement nowadays, but it was a mostly unfamiliar notion when he started to say it in the 1950's. It's easy to hear it now, especially when you listen to Weston's 6+ decade discography. It's in his percussive compositions and it's in the story of his life, making music with players from throughout the African diaspora. To this day, musicians are walking through the doors he opened, more than 6 years after his death at age 92. Pianist Vijay Iyer chose Randy Weston for this Monday's Deep Focus with host Mitch Goldman. What inspired him to make that choice? Was it Weston's distinctive touch on the piano? The warmth and humanity that he exudes? Or maybe just pure admiration for one who always charted his own path? To find out, tune in this Monday (3/24) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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It's impossible to distinguish between Randy Weston's musical innovations and his conception of the world he was born into. To say that the roots of jazz are in West Africa is hardly a groundbreaking statement nowadays, but it was a mostly unfamiliar notion when he started to say it in the 1950's. It's easy to hear it now, especially when you listen to Weston's 6+ decade discography. It's in his percussive compositions and it's in the story of his life, making music with players from throughout the African diaspora. To this day, musicians are walking through the doors he opened, more than 6 years after his death at age 92. Pianist Vijay Iyer chose Randy Weston for this Monday's Deep Focus with host Mitch Goldman. What inspired him to make that choice? Was it Weston's distinctive touch on the piano? The warmth and humanity that he exudes? Or maybe just pure admiration for one who always charted his own path? To find out, tune in this Monday (3/24) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to it: your background, your proclivities, your vocabulary. And if you didn't have it to bring, the music wasn't going to make it off the stage. Jack DeSalvo brought a musical lexicon to the Decoding Society that was unmatched. When Shannon expressed a mood-- on drums or flute or schalmei or in a composition-- Jack was able to flesh it out in a completely distinct way. Entire new pathways were charted. Mitch Goldman presents the third installment of his memorial broadcasts for Ronald Shannon Jackson from 2013, with guest Jack DeSalvo. This week's show features guest cameos of Prince(!), Iron Maiden(!) Ethan Singer(!), a stolen vanload of gear(!) and that guy at the hotel in the south of France(!). I tell you, this one is not to be missed. #WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RonaldShannonJackson #JackDeSalvo #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #DecodingSociety Photo credit: no publishing information available. Here is part 2 of this episode:2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson - 2 of 3 And here is part 3:2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson - 3 of 3
This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter 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.
In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, trumpeter, cultural historian, and raconteur Steven Bernstein, blew the dust off of a few of the tapes and took their audience on a time travel journey beyond the imagination of Asimov or Butler. Cherry as a radio host was knowing, passionate, deeply curious, and remarkably generous. He was generous to his guests with his attention and generous to his audience (which is to say, us) by considering them to be part of the conversation. It's very much the way he played music. This Monday (2/17) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter 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.
In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, trumpeter, cultural historian, and raconteur Steven Bernstein blew the dust off of a few of the tapes and took their audience on a time travel journey beyond the imagination of Asimov or Butler. Cherry as a radio host was knowing, passionate, deeply curious, and remarkably generous. He was generous to his guests with his attention and generous to his audience (which is to say, us) by considering them to be part of the conversation. It's very much the way he played music. This Monday (2/17) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter 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.
In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter, cultural historian, and raconteur Steven Bernstein blew the dust off of a few of the tapes and took their audience on a time travel journey beyond the imagination of Asimov or Butler. Cherry as a radio host was knowing, passionate, deeply curious, and remarkably generous. He was generous to his guests with his attention and generous to his audience (which is to say, us) by considering them to be part of the conversation. It's very much the way he played music. This Monday (2/17) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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On our previous Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman and his guest, saxophonist Eric Person explored the work of the David Murray Octet of the 1980s. Here was an ensemble that punched far above its weight, with swinging horn parts like a Thirties big band as well eyeball-to-eyeball improvisation like a small ensemble. They had the storytelling of a traditional group with the expansive harmonies and extended techniques that were being freshly discovered at the time. It was a laboratory for the music's possible futures, and they grooved like hell. Could there have been another band at the time that fit this description? As Eric Person's one-time employer, Ronald Shannon Jackson might have said, "Where there's one there's two." This week Mitch and Eric explore the equally inventive bands of Arthur Blythe. His eighties quintet didn't sound like any other band before or since. It was as if he had exploded a standard hard bop ensemble and rebuilt it with a new kit of parts. And do you know who that band's original guitarist was? And have you ever heard live recordings of that band with him in it? We don't think you have! Tune in and you will. This Monday (2/3) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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On our previous Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman and his guest, saxophonist Eric Person explored the work of the David Murray Octet of the 1980s. Here was an ensemble that punched far above its weight, with swinging horn parts like a Thirties big band as well eyeball-to-eyeball improvisation like a small ensemble. They had the storytelling of a traditional group with the expansive harmonies and extended techniques that were being freshly discovered at the time. It was a laboratory for the music's possible futures, and they grooved like hell. Could there have been another band at the time that fit this description? As Eric Person's one-time employer, Ronald Shannon Jackson might have said, "Where there's one there's two." This week Mitch and Eric explore the equally inventive bands of Arthur Blythe. His eighties quintet didn't sound like any other band before or since. It was as if he had exploded a standard hard bop ensemble and rebuilt it with a new kit of parts. And do you know who that band's original guitarist was? And have you ever heard live recordings of that band with him in it? We don't think you have! Tune in and you will. This Monday (2/3) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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On our previous Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman and his guest, saxophonist Eric Person explored the work of the David Murray Octet of the 1980s. Here was an ensemble that punched far above its weight, with swinging horn parts like a Thirties big band, as well eyeball-to-eyeball improvisation like a small ensemble. They had the storytelling of a traditional group with the expansive harmonies and extended techniques that were being freshly discovered at the time. It was a laboratory for the music's possible futures, and they grooved like hell. Could there have been another band at the time that fit this description? As Eric Person's one-time employer, Ronald Shannon Jackson might have said, "Where there's one there's two." This week Mitch and Eric explore the equally inventive bands of Arthur Blythe. His eighties quintet didn't sound like any other band before or since. It was as if he had exploded a standard hard bop ensemble and rebuilt it with a new kit of parts. And do you know who that band's original guitarist was? And have you ever heard live recordings of that band with him in it? We don't think you have! Tune in and you will. This Monday (2/3) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Here is another episode from the Deep Focus "Prodigal Children" series.
Mitch Goldman first went on the air at WKCR in 1985 and started Deep Focus in 2008. Since his primary focus during the broadcast is hosting and engineering the show, making these recordings has often had to take a back seat. Add in the fact that WKCR is, in Phil Schaap's words, "The home of technical difficulties," and you might understand that the historical record of the show is somewhat incomplete.
In this podcast, we try to provide as complete an archive of the broadcast program as possible. If we find that a part is missing, we put that information in the notes and keep right on going.
On rare occasion, a missing piece will find its way home. When it does, we put it up on the podcast. This is one of those episodes. One CD recording of the last part of this show has turned up so here it is. We hope you enjoy it. If you do, please tell someone about Deep Focus.
We will be back next week with a brand new episode of the show.
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In the early 1980s, when saxophonist Eric Person was coming up, one big question that was being addressed was how to combine the free-swinging improv of the Loft scene with the beauty and power of a large ensemble. Many fascinating strategies would arrive (Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, we're looking at you!). One of the first and most thrilling came from saxophonist David Murray. Murray was the emerging heavyweight champ of the tenor sax and he packed his Octet with Big Thinkers, Heavy Honkers, and Late-Night Prowlers. "Men," in the words of Stanley Crouch, "of great magnitude." And the David Murray Octet always played standing up. This Monday (1/6) on Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person into the WKCR archives for an exploration of this explosive and still underappreciated ensemble, from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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In the early 1980s, when saxophonist Eric Person was coming up, one big question that was being addressed was how to combine the free-swinging improv of the Loft scene with the beauty and power of a large ensemble. Many fascinating strategies would arrive (Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, we're looking at you!). One of the first and most thrilling came from saxophonist David Murray. Murray was the emerging heavyweight champ of the tenor sax and he packed his Octet with Big Thinkers, Heavy Honkers, and Late-Night Prowlers. "Men," in the words of Stanley Crouch, "of great magnitude." And the David Murray Octet always played standing up. This Monday (1/6) on Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person into the WKCR archives for an exploration of this explosive and still underappreciated ensemble, from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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In the early 1980s, when saxophonist Eric Person was coming up, one big question that was being addressed was how to combine the free-swinging improv of the Loft scene with the beauty and power of a large ensemble. Many fascinating strategies would arrive (Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, we're looking at you!). One of the first and most thrilling came from saxophonist David Murray. Murray was the emerging heavyweight champ of the tenor sax and he packed his Octet with Big Thinkers, Heavy Honkers, and Late-Night Prowlers. "Men," in the words of Stanley Crouch, "of great magnitude." And the David Murray Octet always played standing up. This Monday (1/6) on Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman invites Eric Person into the WKCR archives for an exploration of this explosive and still underappreciated ensemble, from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial. We won't even ask for your contact info.
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Arturo O'Farrill: "Without Carla (Bley)’s influence, I wouldn’t be where I am today; there would be no Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, no Belongó, no Arturo O'Farrill. She is in everything that I do..." Don't you want to hear what happens when WKCR's Mitch Goldman welcomes Arturo into the WKCR archives for a Deep Focus on Carla Bley? We know we do!
Game on this Monday (12/23) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Arturo O'Farrill: "Without Carla (Bley)’s influence, I wouldn’t be where I am today; there would be no Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, no Belongó, no Arturo O'Farrill. She is in everything that I do..." Don't you want to hear what happens when WKCR's Mitch Goldman welcomes Arturo into the WKCR archives for a Deep Focus on Carla Bley? We know we do!
Game on this Monday (12/23) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Arturo O'Farrill: "Without Carla (Bley)’s influence, I wouldn’t be where I am today; there would be no Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, no Belongó, no Arturo O'Farrill. She is in everything that I do..." Don't you want to hear what happens when WKCR's Mitch Goldman welcomes Arturo into the WKCR archives for a Deep Focus on Carla Bley? We know we do!
Game on this Monday (12/23) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is renowned for "never playing anything the same way once." Drawing inspiration from Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Parliament Funkadelic, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago, in the words of founder Greg Tate, "Our player-ranks include known Irish fiddlers, AACM refugees, Afro-punk rejects, unrepentant beboppers, feminist rappers, jitterbugging doowoppers, frankly loud funk-a-teers and rodeo stars of the digital divide.” Under the baton of Butch Morris's conduction concept, this polyglot throng becomes the universal translation device of AI's disembodied dreams. We hear what you're thinking: "The concept is great but what happens when the rubber hits the road? Can they really do it on stage?" Let's answer that question on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. And who better to listen to the music with than BSAC's own samchillianist Leon Gruenbaum? It's all happening this Monday (11/25) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is renowned for "never playing anything the same way once." Drawing inspiration from Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Parliament Funkadelic, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago, in the words of founder Greg Tate, "Our player-ranks include known Irish fiddlers, AACM refugees, Afro-punk rejects, unrepentant beboppers, feminist rappers, jitterbugging doowoppers, frankly loud funk-a-teers and rodeo stars of the digital divide.” Under the baton of Butch Morris's conduction concept, this polyglot throng becomes the universal translation device of AI's disembodied dreams. We hear what you're thinking: "The concept is great but what happens when the rubber hits the road? Can they really do it on stage?" Let's answer that question on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. And who better to listen to the music with than BSAC's own samchillianist Leon Gruenbaum? It's all happening this Monday (11/25) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is renowned for "never playing anything the same way once." Drawing inspiration from Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Parliament Funkadelic, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago, in the words of founder Greg Tate, "Our player-ranks include known Irish fiddlers, AACM refugees, Afro-punk rejects, unrepentant beboppers, feminist rappers, jitterbugging doowoppers, frankly loud funk-a-teers and rodeo stars of the digital divide.” Under the baton of Butch Morris's conduction concept, this polyglot throng becomes the universal translation device of AI's disembodied dreams. We hear what you're thinking: "The concept is great but what happens when the rubber hits the road? Can they really do it on stage?" Let's answer that question on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. And who better to listen to the music with than BSAC's own samchillianist Leon Gruenbaum? It's all happening this Monday (11/25) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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The previous time Graham Haynes was the guest on Deep Focus, it was to celebrate his father Roy Haynes’s stunning contributions to Charlie Parker’s performances at Birdland. That alone would have been enough to earn Roy a place in the history books. Now, how about Roy with another wildly different innovator making Jazz history at another musical landmark? So who was the drummer with Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot? We’ll give you one guess!
Graham Haynes on Deep Focus with Mitch Goldman tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. See you on the radio - #WKCR #DeepFocus #GrahamHaynes #RoyHaynes #TheloniousMonk #TheFiveSpot #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
The previous time Graham Haynes was the guest on Deep Focus, it was to celebrate his father Roy Haynes’s stunning contributions to Charlie Parker’s performances at Birdland. That alone would have been enough to earn Roy a place in the history books. Now, how about Roy with another wildly different innovator making Jazz history at another musical landmark? So who was the drummer with Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot? We’ll give you one guess!
Graham Haynes on Deep Focus with Mitch Goldman tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. See you on the radio - #WKCR #DeepFocus #GrahamHaynes #RoyHaynes #TheloniousMonk #TheFiveSpot #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
What a treat! Listening to live recordings of Charles Mingus through the ears of the great trombonist and musical thinker Craig Harris. When Craig was coming up in the seventies, he was enthralled with what Mingus was doing; the daring and imagination were unmatched anywhere. This was a man in his moment. It's easy to see how this would have a bearing on who Craig Harris was to become.
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Photo credit: Charles_Mingus 1976 Tom Marcello Webster - New York - CC BY-SA 2.0
What a treat! Listening to live recordings of Charles Mingus through the ears of the great trombonist and musical thinker Craig Harris. When Craig was coming up in the seventies, he was enthralled with what Mingus was doing; the daring and imagination were unmatched anywhere. This was a man in his moment. It's easy to see how this would have a bearing on who Craig Harris was to become.
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Photo credit: Charles_Mingus 1976 Tom Marcello Webster - New York - CC BY-SA 2.0
Here's another Ph.D. topic for you: Miles Davis vs. Ornette Coleman. Both blazingly original innovators lived most of their lives in Manhattan and they were roughly contemporaries (Miles was 4 years older) so they drew from the same talent pool to make up their bands. But across 30+ years of simultaneous bandleading and the hiring of dozens and dozens of sidemen, how many can you think of who toured and recorded extensively with both? We've got one for you: tabla player Badal Roy. And Badal Roy did so much more than play with those two giants! His bubbling groove and enormous sonic textures can be heard on albums by everyone from Yoko Ono to Richie Havens, John McLaughlin to Pharoah Sanders, not to mention half a dozen albums under his own leadership. He died in 2022. But if you talk to those who knew him, they all speak of a singular warmth, humanity, and unabashed joy. Maybe that, more than the pure musicianship, is what caught the ear of Miles and Ornette in the first place. Few know this better than guitarist Ken Wessel. Wessel toured and recorded with Badal Roy in Ornette's band for 13 years, and the two worked on a number of their own projects together. Wessel will be celebrating Badal Roy in this week's Ragas Live Festival in Brooklyn. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman is delighted to welcome Ken Wessel to the WKCR studios this Monday (10/14) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: source unknown. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #KenWessel #BadalRoy #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio #OrnetteColeman #MilesDavis
Here's another Ph.D. topic for you: Miles Davis vs. Ornette Coleman. Both blazingly original innovators lived most of their lives in Manhattan and they were roughly contemporaries (Miles was 4 years older) so they drew from the same talent pool to make up their bands. But across 30+ years of simultaneous bandleading and the hiring of dozens and dozens of sidemen, how many can you think of who toured and recorded extensively with both? We've got one for you: tabla player Badal Roy. And Badal Roy did so much more than play with those two giants! His bubbling groove and enormous sonic textures can be heard on albums by everyone from Yoko Ono to Richie Havens, John McLaughlin to Pharoah Sanders, not to mention half a dozen albums under his own leadership. He died in 2022. But if you talk to those who knew him, they all speak of a singular warmth, humanity, and unabashed joy. Maybe that, more than the pure musicianship, is what caught the ear of Miles and Ornette in the first place. Few know this better than guitarist Ken Wessel. Wessel toured and recorded with Badal Roy in Ornette's band for 13 years, and the two worked on a number of their own projects together. Wessel will be celebrating Badal Roy in this week's Ragas Live Festival in Brooklyn. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman is delighted to welcome Ken Wessel to the WKCR studios this Monday (10/14) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: source unknown. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #KenWessel #BadalRoy #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio #OrnetteColeman
Here's another Ph.D. topic for you: Miles Davis vs. Ornette Coleman. Both blazingly original innovators lived most of their lives in Manhattan and they were roughly contemporaries (Miles was 4 years older) so they drew from the same talent pool to make up their bands. But across 30+ years of simultaneous bandleading and the hiring of dozens and dozens of sidemen, how many can you think of who toured and recorded extensively with both? We've got one for you: tabla player Badal Roy. And Badal Roy did so much more than play with those two giants! His bubbling groove and enormous sonic textures can be heard on albums by everyone from Yoko Ono to Richie Havens, John McLaughlin to Pharoah Sanders, not to mention half a dozen albums under his own leadership. He died in 2022. But if you talk to those who knew him, they all speak of a singular warmth, humanity, and unabashed joy. Maybe that, more than the pure musicianship, is what caught the ear of Miles and Ornette in the first place. Few know this better than guitarist Ken Wessel. Wessel toured and recorded with Badal Roy in Ornette's band for 13 years, and the two worked on a number of their own projects together. Wessel will be celebrating Badal Roy in this week's Ragas Live Festival in Brooklyn. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman is delighted to welcome Ken Wessel to the WKCR studios this Monday (10/14) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Let's present an award: who would you say has been the most prolific artist on NYC's forward-looking music scene and who has contributed the most to its community? Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman's nominee: bassist William Parker. This Monday, Mitch and trumpeter Lewis "Flip" Barnes will put William Parker's music in Deep Focus. Will there be live, unreleased recordings from the WKCR archives? What do you think! (And a bonus question: what are we going to call the award that the winner gets?) It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: William Parker by Tore Sætre, Wikimedia Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #LewisFlipBarnes #WilliamParker #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio
Let's present an award: who would you say has been the most prolific artist on NYC's forward-looking music scene and who has contributed the most to its community? Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman's nominee: bassist William Parker. This Monday, Mitch and trumpeter Lewis "Flip" Barnes will put William Parker's music in Deep Focus. Will there be live, unreleased recordings from the WKCR archives? What do you think! (And a bonus question: what are we going to call the award that the winner gets?) It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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William Parker - CC0 @ Schwules Museum Berlin, photo by Petra Gall #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #LewisFlipBarnes #WilliamParker #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio
Let's present an award: who would you say has been the most prolific artist on NYC's forward-looking music scene and who has contributed the most to its community? Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman's nominee: bassist William Parker. This Monday, Mitch and trumpeter Lewis "Flip" Barnes will put William Parker's music in Deep Focus. Will there be live, unreleased recordings from the WKCR archives? What do you think! (And a bonus question: what are we going to call the award that the winner gets?) It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted. It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: William Parker by Tore Sætre, Wikimedia Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #LewisFlipBarnes #WilliamParker #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio
Tonight (8/19) bassist/composer Melvin Gibbs joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra with unheard rarities from the WKCR archives. Here's a serious question, Melvin: what's the Sun Ra/Brooklyn connection? This I have to hear. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: Sun Ra - Impulse!, ABC/Dunhill Records - Photographer uncredited most likely Francis Ing who is credited on Astro Black ., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MelvinGibbs #SunRa #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio #SpaceIsThePlace #SunRaArkestra
Tonight (8/19) bassist/composer Melvin Gibbs joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra with unheard rarities from the WKCR archives. Here's a serious question, Melvin: what's the Sun Ra/Brooklyn connection? This I have to hear. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: Sun Ra - Impulse!, ABC/Dunhill Records - Photographer uncredited most likely Francis Ing who is credited on Astro Black ., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MelvinGibbs #SunRa #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio #SpaceIsThePlace #SunRaArkestra
Tonight (8/19) bassist/composer Melvin Gibbs joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra with unheard rarities from the WKCR archives. Here's a serious question, Melvin: what's the Sun Ra/Brooklyn connection? This I have to hear. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: Sun Ra - Impulse!, ABC/Dunhill Records - Photographer uncredited most likely Francis Ing who is credited on Astro Black ., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MelvinGibbs #SunRa #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio #SpaceIsThePlace #SunRaArkestra
I love it when I go to a gig and I see that Micah Gaugh is going to be playing. It means it is certain that something unexpected is going to happen. And Micah surprised me with his selection of a subject for Deep Focus: Ronald Shannon Jackson. I was 19 years old and already a die hard music fan but I had no idea what music could do until I heard Shannon’s band, The Decoding Society. Now you’re going to hear what I heard then. Caution: severe tire damage!
Monday April 2 from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.
I love it when I go to a gig and I see that Micah Gaugh is going to be playing. It means it is certain that something unexpected is going to happen. And Micah surprised me with his selection of a subject for Deep Focus: Ronald Shannon Jackson. I was 19 years old and already a die-hard music fan but I had no idea what music could do until I heard Shannon’s band, The Decoding Society. Now you’re going to hear what I heard then. Caution: severe tire damage!
Monday April 2 from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.
I love it when I go to a gig and I see that Micah Gaugh is going to be playing. It means it is certain that something unexpected is going to happen. And Micah surprised me with his selection of a subject for Deep Focus: Ronald Shannon Jackson. I was 19 years old and already a die hard music fan but I had no idea what music could do until I heard Shannon’s band, The Decoding Society. Now you’re going to hear what I heard then. Caution: severe tire damage! Monday April 2 from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MicahGaugh #RonaldShannonJackson #ShannonJackson #MitchGoldman #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
People love to talk about Miles Davis reinventing himself and reinventing the music. They talk about the First Great Quintet in the fifties, the Second Great Quintet in the sixties, the Lost Quintet of 1969, maybe of the electric bands that followed (although often not). What do they almost never talk about? In 1981, Miles hadn't performed in public, hadn't released a new album, and had barely touched his horn in 5 years (consider that for a moment!). How does a legend go from a standing start to a full-on touring and recording schedule overnight?
How does he address the way the music has changed (partly from his influence)? Who is he going to have in his band? What music are they going to play? So many questions! Bassist/impresario Matt Garrison saw this band when they first played in Rome. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman saw the same band at their first appearance in New York City. Both were enthralled by what they saw and heard. On Deep Focus this Monday night (7/8), you will listen to that Rome concert with them. Mitch has "so many questions!" for Matt about this experience.
It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: Miles Davis 1981 by David D. Spitzer - courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, used with the principles of fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act - NMAAHC-2012_164_127_001 #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MattGarrison #MilesDavis #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio
People love to talk about Miles Davis reinventing himself and reinventing the music. They talk about the First Great Quintet in the fifties, the Second Great Quintet in the sixties, the Lost Quintet of 1969, maybe of the electric bands that followed (although often not). What do they almost never talk about? In 1981, Miles hadn't performed in public, hadn't released a new album, and had barely touched his horn in 5 years (consider that for a moment!). How does a legend go from a standing start to a full-on touring and recording schedule overnight?
How does he address the way the music has changed (partly from his influence)? Who is he going to have in his band? What music are they going to play? So many questions! Bassist/impresario Matt Garrison saw this band when they first played in Rome. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman saw the same band at their first appearance in New York City. Both were enthralled by what they saw and heard. On Deep Focus this Monday night (7/8), you will listen to that Rome concert with them. Mitch has "so many questions!" for Matt about this experience.
It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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People love to talk about Miles Davis reinventing himself and reinventing the music. They talk about the First Great Quintet in the fifties, the Second Great Quintet in the sixties, the Lost Quintet of 1969, maybe of the electric bands that followed (although often not). What do they almost never talk about? In 1981, Miles hadn't performed in public, hadn't released a new album, and had barely touched his horn in 5 years (consider that for a moment!). How does a legend go from a standing start to a full-on touring and recording schedule overnight?
How does he address the way the music has changed (partly from his influence)? Who is he going to have in his band? What music are they going to play? So many questions! Bassist/impresario Matt Garrison saw this band when they first played in Rome. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman saw the same band at their first appearance in New York City. Both were enthralled by what they saw and heard. On Deep Focus this Monday night (7/8), you will listen to that Rome concert with them. Mitch has "so many questions!" for Matt about this experience.
It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: Miles Davis 1981 by David D. Spitzer - courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, used with the principles of fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act - NMAAHC-2012_164_127_001 #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MattGarrison #MilesDavis #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio
Listen to any song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. There will be no question in your mind about who is driving the bus or who is riding on the bus or where this bus is going. Who's driving the bus? Art Blakey is driving! Who's riding the bus? Everybody! Where's this bus going? Straight ahead! Seventeen years of Deep Focus and no one has ever called for Art Blakey's music? I don't know how that is possible but it ends Monday night (6/24). Saxophonist/Jazz scholar Eric Person joins host Mitch Goldman to focus on the music this one-of-a-kind drummer/bandleader. They will play recordings from the WKCR archives that even hardcore Blakey fans have never heard. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Listen to any song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. There will be no question in your mind about who is driving the bus or who is riding on the bus or where this bus is going. Who's driving the bus? Art Blakey is driving! Who's riding the bus? Everybody! Where's this bus going? Straight ahead! Seventeen years of Deep Focus and no one has ever called for Art Blakey's music? I don't know how that is possible but it ends Monday night (6/24). Saxophonist/Jazz scholar Eric Person joins host Mitch Goldman to focus on the music this one-of-a-kind drummer/bandleader. They will play recordings from the WKCR archives that even hardcore Blakey fans have never heard. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: © Herman Leonard Photography LLC, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #EricPerson #ArtBlakey #JazzMessengers #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio
Listen to any song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. There will be no question in your mind about who is driving the bus or who is riding on the bus or where this bus is going. Who's driving the bus? Art Blakey is driving! Who's riding the bus? Everybody! Where's this bus going? Straight ahead! Seventeen years of Deep Focus and no one has ever called for Art Blakey's music? I don't know how that is possible but it ends Monday night (6/24). Saxophonist/Jazz scholar Eric Person joins host Mitch Goldman to focus on the music this one-of-a-kind drummer/bandleader. They will play recordings from the WKCR archives that even hardcore Blakey fans have never heard. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: © Herman Leonard Photography LLC, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #EricPerson #ArtBlakey #JazzMessengers #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio
We don't hear enough about Gil Scott-Heron these days. And when we do, we often get the same few crumbs: his invention of a sort of proto-hiphop, some reference to his social concerns, and, of course, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (which too often is wildly misinterpreted). What about Gil Scott-Heron the unique stage performer? What about how hilariously funny he was? What about the singular vocal instrument that he developed? How about the utterly distinctive songwriter? And who better to listen with than guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? The WKCR archives will yield rare treasures, and Vernon, as always, has a plethora of precious insights. Host Mitch Goldman will also ask him about his band Living Colour's upcoming rare NYC appearance at the Hard Rock Cafe on June 19th. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday (6/10) from 6pm to 9pm. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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We don't hear enough about Gil Scott-Heron these days. And when we do, we often get the same few crumbs: his invention of a sort of proto-hiphop, some reference to his social concerns, and, of course, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (which too often is wildly misinterpreted). What about Gil Scott-Heron the unique stage performer? What about how hilariously funny he was? What about the singular vocal instrument that he developed? How about the utterly distinctive songwriter? And who better to listen with than guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? The WKCR archives will yield rare treasures, and Vernon, as always, has a plethora of precious insights. Host Mitch Goldman will also ask him about his band Living Colour's upcoming rare NYC appearance at the Hard Rock Cafe on June 19th. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday (6/10) from 6pm to 9pm. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
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We don't hear enough about Gil Scott-Heron these days. And when we do, we often get the same few crumbs: his invention of a sort of proto-hiphop, some reference to his social concerns, and, of course, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (which too often is wildly misinterpreted). What about Gil Scott-Heron the unique stage performer? What about how hilariously funny he was? What about the singular vocal instrument that he developed? How about the utterly distinctive songwriter? And who better to listen with than guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? The WKCR archives will yield rare treasures, and Vernon, as always, has a plethora of precious insights. Host Mitch Goldman will also ask him about his band Living Colour's upcoming rare NYC appearance at the Hard Rock Cafe on June 19th. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday (6/10) from 6pm to 9pm. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
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"Who has the hippest chops in the world?" If you're going to ask that question on a record, you had better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, you will be annihilated, humiliated for the rest of time, if you don't. Rahsaan Roland Kirk knew he had them and so did everyone else on the scene. To this day, any time you see a saxophonist playing 3 horns at once or circular breathing or playing the nose flute or any of the other manifestations that Rahsaan developed, they are paying tribute to him, whether they know it or not. Gary Lucas is a New York City treasure who does things with the guitar no one thought possible. Did part of his inspiration come from seeing and hearing Rahsaan perform in 1971? Do we have live recordings of Rahsaan from that period in the WKCR archives? Is Gary going to join host Mitch Goldman in the studio Monday night for Deep Focus?
There's more than one way to find out. Listen to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday (5/13) from 6pm to 9pm. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Großen Sedesaal des NDR Hamburg, 1972 from Wikipedia, courtesy of Creative Commons 2.0
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"Who has the hippest chops in the world?" If you're going to ask that question on a record, you had better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, you will be annihilated, humiliated for the rest of time, if you don't. Rahsaan Roland Kirk knew he had them and so did everyone else on the scene. To this day, any time you see a saxophonist playing 3 horns at once or circular breathing or playing the nose flute or any of the other manifestations that Rahsaan developed, they are paying tribute to him, whether they know it or not. Gary Lucas is a New York City treasure who does things with the guitar no one thought possible. Did part of his inspiration come from seeing and hearing Rahsaan perform in 1971? Do we have live recordings of Rahsaan from that period in the WKCR archives? Is Gary going to join host Mitch Goldman in the studio Monday night for Deep Focus?
There's more than one way to find out. Listen to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday (5/13) from 6pm to 9pm. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
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Photo credit: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Großen Sedesaal des NDR Hamburg, 1972 from Wikipedia, courtesy of Creative Commons 2.0
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"Who has the hippest chops in the world?" If you're going to ask that question on a record, you had better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, you will be annihilated, humiliated for the rest of time, if you don't. Rahsaan Roland Kirk knew he had them and so did everyone else on the scene. To this day, any time you see a saxophonist playing 3 horns at once or circular breathing or playing the nose flute or any of the other manifestations that Rahsaan developed, they are paying tribute to him, whether they know it or not. Gary Lucas is a New York City treasure who does things with the guitar no one thought possible. Did part of his inspiration come from seeing and hearing Rahsaan perform in 1971? Do we have live recordings of Rahsaan from that period in the WKCR archives? Is Gary going to join host Mitch Goldman in the studio Monday night for Deep Focus?
There's more than one way to find out. Listen to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday (5/13) from 6pm to 9pm. Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Either way it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.
Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
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Photo credit: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Großen Sedesaal des NDR Hamburg, 1972 from Wikipedia, courtesy of Creative Commons 2.0
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Almost every episode of Deep Focus is now available here as a podcast. I say "almost" because there are a handful that, for technical reasons, were not recorded completely or not recorded at all (if anyone has a home recording of the show that I did with Greg Tate on the band VSOP, please send it my way!).
This is the second of those episodes to be posted to the podcast, and it's a great one: Melvin Gibbs again, now on the topic of the stupendous Arthur Rhames and the stunning Mixashawn Lee Rozie, again at Soundscape. It was recorded September 20, 2010 and here is the second and last extant recordings, presented in its entirety.
Photo credit: Arthur Rhames -2017-by-shigeki-masumoto
Almost every episode of Deep Focus is now available here as a podcast. I say "almost" because there are a handful that, for technical reasons, were not recorded completely or not recorded at all (if anyone has a home recording of the show that I did with Greg Tate on the band VSOP, please send it my way!).
This is the second of those episodes to be posted to the podcast, and it's a great one: Melvin Gibbs again, now on the topic of the stupendous Arthur Rhames and the stunning Lee Rozie, again at Soundscape. It was recorded September 20, 2010 and here is the first of 2 extant recordings, presented in their entirety.
Almost every episode of Deep Focus is now available here as a podcast. I say "almost" because there are a handful that, for technical reasons, were not recorded completely or not recorded at all (if anyone has a home recording of the show that I did with Greg Tate on the band VSOP, please send it my way!).
This is the first of those episodes to be posted to the podcast, and it's a great one: Melvin Gibbs on the topic of Sonny Sharrock at Soundscape. It was recorded September 13, 2010 and here is the recording in its entirety.
What 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 Monday (3/18) cornetist/composer Graham Haynes joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on trumpeter Woody Shaw. Jewels of the WKCR archives shall sparkle. On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
Instagram. Photo credit: Woody Shaw 1977 by Tom Marcello, courtesy of Creative Commons. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #GrahamHaynes #WoodyShaw #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
What 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 Monday (3/18) cornetist/composer Graham Haynes joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on trumpeter Woody Shaw. Jewels of the WKCR archives shall sparkle. On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
Instagram. Photo credit: Woody Shaw 1977 by Tom Marcello, courtesy of Creative Commons. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #GrahamHaynes #WoodyShaw #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
What 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 Monday (3/18) cornetist/composer Graham Haynes joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on trumpeter Woody Shaw. Jewels of the WKCR archives shall sparkle. On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/. Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on
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We 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. Stories? Graham’s got stories!
Join host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (March 3) from 6pm to 9pm NYC-time on WKCR 89.9FM. WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org
We 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. Stories? Graham’s got stories!
Join host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (March 3) from 6pm to 9pm NYC-time on WKCR 89.9FM. WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org
We 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. Stories? Graham’s got stories!
Join host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (March 3) from 6pm to 9pm NYC-time on WKCR 89.9FM. WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org
Not 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://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Not 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://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Not 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://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Tonight'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 Bernstein are blowing the dust off of those tapes. Will they play? What's on them? What was Don Cherry's voice like?What kind of music will he play?What sort of stories will these tapes tell? Does he have additional guests? Slow down! All will be revealed tonight 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/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Mitch Goldman 2024. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Tonight'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 Bernstein are blowing the dust off of those tapes. Will they play? What's on them? What was Don Cherry's voice like?What kind of music will he play?What sort of stories will these tapes tell? Does he have additional guests? Slow down! All will be revealed tonight 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/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Don Cherry - by jazzenthusiast, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Tonight'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 Bernstein are blowing the dust off of those tapes. Will they play? What's on them? What was Don Cherry's voice like?What kind of music will he play?What sort of stories will these tapes tell? Does he have additional guests? Slow down! All will be revealed tonight 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/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Mitch Goldman 2024. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
This 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 Goldman is going to ask him if he really was the way he seemed in his music. Did he talk the way he played? Once again, the WKCR archives come through with gobsmacking rarities from both the early Seventies and the early 2000s.
This Monday Jan. 8 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/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Hampton Hawes - cover of Raise Up Off Me. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #PeterApfelbaum #AndrewHill #AndrewHillJazz #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
This 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 Goldman is going to ask him if he really was the way he seemed in his music. Did he talk the way he played? Once again, the WKCR archives come through with gobsmacking rarities from both the early Seventies and the early 2000s.
This Monday Jan. 8 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/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Andrew Hill by Francis Wolff from AndrewHillJazz.com. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #PeterApfelbaum #AndrewHill #AndrewHillJazz #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
This 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 Goldman is going to ask him if he really was the way he seemed in his music. Did he talk the way he played? Once again, the WKCR archives come through with gobsmacking rarities from both the early Seventies and the early 2000s.
This Monday Jan. 8 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/ Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Andrew Hill by Francis Wolff from AndrewHillJazz.com. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #PeterApfelbaum #AndrewHill #AndrewHillJazz #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
"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 created that sort of music in the first place. Looked at this way, why and how it became codified as a genre less interesting than getting to the point of origin. "Finding the thread," as Tru might say.
Tru Born joins host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (11/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the blues, 1951 by Clemens Kalischer - fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #TruBorn #AnthonyMichaelPeterson #JohnLeeHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman
"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 created that sort of music in the first place. Looked at this way, why and how it became codified as a genre less interesting than getting to the point of origin. "Finding the thread," as Tru might say.
Tru Born joins host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (11/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the blues, 1951 by Clemens Kalischer - fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #TruBorn #AnthonyMichaelPeterson #JohnLeeHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman
"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 created that sort of music in the first place. Looked at this way, why and how it became codified as a genre are less interesting than getting to the point of origin. "Finding the thread," as Tru might say.
Tru Born joins host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (11/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the blues, 1951 by Clemens Kalischer - fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #TruBorn #AnthonyMichaelPeterson #JohnLeeHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman
Bassist 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
Bassist 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
Bassist 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
There 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, just months before he died, he threw down an exclamation point. There were 2 performances at a glorious shrine to Modernism, La Fondation Maeght in the south of France, that stated who Albert Ayler was and how he believed music could convey the ineffable. Do we have recordings of this performance? It’s Deep Focus; of course we do!
Matthew Shipp joins Mitch Goldman this Monday (10/9) from 6 pm to 9 pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Photo credit: no publishing information available.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #AlbertAyler #MatthewShipp #MattShipp #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
There 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, just months before he died, he threw down an exclamation point. There were 2 performances at a glorious shrine to Modernism, La Fondation Maeght in the south of France, that stated who Albert Ayler was and how he believed music could convey the ineffable. Do we have recordings of this performance? It’s Deep Focus; of course we do!
Matthew Shipp joins Mitch Goldman this Monday (10/9) from 6 pm to 9 pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Photo credit: no publishing information available.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #AlbertAyler #MatthewShipp #MattShipp #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
There 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, just months before he died, he threw down an exclamation point. There were 2 performances at a glorious shrine to Modernism, La Fondation Maeght in the south of France, that stated who Albert Ayler was and how he believed music could convey the ineffable. Do we have recordings of this performance? It’s Deep Focus; of course we do!
Matthew Shipp joins Mitch Goldman this Monday (10/9) from 6 pm to 9 pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Photo credit: no publishing information available.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #AlbertAyler #MatthewShipp #MattShipp #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
"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? (surprising answer!). - And what about Duke Ellington? (astonishing answer!).- What experiences, musical and other, shaped you as a creative person? (kaleidoscopic answers!).- What really happened to you guys in Viet Nam? (hideous, bewildering answers).- How distinctive was the music scene in Chicago as you were coming up? This last question brings us to tonight's Deep Focus. Henry Threadgill joins host Mitch Goldman for an exploration of two of his great inspirations: saxophonists John Gilmore and Von Freeman. And will the WKCR archives yield unheard wonders? Only one way to find out! This Monday (9/25) 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: no publishing information available. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #HenryThreadgill #MitchGoldman #VonFreeman #JohnGilmore #SunRa #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
"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? (surprising answer!). - And what about Duke Ellington? (astonishing answer!).- What experiences, musical and other, shaped you as a creative person? (kaleidoscopic answers!).- What really happened to you guys in Viet Nam? (hideous, bewildering answers).- How distinctive was the music scene in Chicago as you were coming up? This last question brings us to tonight's Deep Focus. Henry Threadgill joins host Mitch Goldman for an exploration of two of his great inspirations: saxophonists John Gilmore and Von Freeman. And will the WKCR archives yield unheard wonders? Only one way to find out! This Monday (9/25) 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: no publishing info available. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #HenryThreadgill #MitchGoldman #VonFreeman #JohnGilmore #SunRa #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
"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? (surprising answer!). - And what about Duke Ellington? (astonishing answer!).- What experiences, musical and other, shaped you as a creative person? (kaleidoscopic answers!).- What really happened to you guys in Viet Nam? (hideous, bewildering answers).- How distinctive was the music scene in Chicago as you were coming up? This last question brings us to tonight's Deep Focus. Henry Threadgill joins host Mitch Goldman for an exploration of two of his great inspirations: saxophonists John Gilmore and Von Freeman. And will the WKCR archives yield unheard wonders? Only one way to find out! This Monday (9/25) 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/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #HenryThreadgill #MitchGoldman #VonFreeman #JohnGilmore #SunRa #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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 saxophonist Sam Rivers. He played in the bands of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, curated the most prominent jazz loft in the seventies, and led bleeding edge improvisatory small bands. But he also composed at least a page a day of large-ensemble music, over 400 discrete compositions. This is an astonishing volume of work, perhaps even unprecedented. So where do you put Sam Rivers in your Jazz March of Progress? This large ensemble work by Sam Rivers is the topic of this Monday's (9/4) edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. The guest will be trombonist Craig Harris who played in Rivers's Orchestra and is organizing a tribute performance for Sam Rivers' centennial on September 22, 2023 at Mt. Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church. If you haven't heard this music, this show will be revealing (and if you have then I didn't even need to tell you all of this!).
Photo credit: Sam Rivers - flute by Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #CraigHarris #SamRivers #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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 saxophonist Sam Rivers. He played in the bands of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, curated the most prominent jazz loft in the seventies, and led bleeding edge improvisatory small bands. But he also composed at least a page a day of large-ensemble music, over 400 discrete compositions. This is an astonishing volume of work, perhaps even unprecedented. So where do you put Sam Rivers in your Jazz March of Progress? This large ensemble work by Sam Rivers is the topic of this Monday's (9/4) edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. The guest will be trombonist Craig Harris who played in Rivers's Orchestra and is organizing a tribute performance for Sam Rivers' centennial on September 22, 2023 at Mt. Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church. If you haven't heard this music, this show will be revealing (and if you have then I didn't even need to tell you all of this!).
Photo credit: Sam Rivers - courtesy of Blue Note Records. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #CraigHarris #SamRivers #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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 saxophonist Sam Rivers. He played in the bands of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, curated the most prominent jazz loft in the seventies, and led bleeding edge improvisatory small bands. But he also composed at least a page a day of large-ensemble music, over 400 discrete compositions. This is an astonishing volume of work, perhaps even unprecedented. So where do you put Sam Rivers in your Jazz March of Progress? This large ensemble work by Sam Rivers is the topic of this Monday's (9/4) edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. The guest will be trombonist Craig Harris who played in Rivers's Orchestra and is organizing a tribute performance for Sam Rivers' centennial on September 22, 2023 at Mt. Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church. If you haven't heard this music, this show will be revealing (and if you have then I didn't even need to tell you all of this!). Photo credit: Sam Rivers - flute by Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #CraigHarris #SamRivers #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
If 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 Dolphy more closely than saxophonist/bandleader/poet/professor Roy Nathanson but we don't know if even Roy has heard the recordings from the WKCR archives that we'll play on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (8/21) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Did you know that you can find out more about Deep Focus and research past episodes here? https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #RoyNathanson #EricDolphy #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
If 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 Dolphy more closely than saxophonist/bandleader/poet/professor Roy Nathanson but we don't know if even Roy has heard the recordings from the WKCR archives that we'll play on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (8/21) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Did you know that you can find out more about Deep Focus and research past episodes here? https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: photographer unknown. #WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #RoyNathanson #EricDolphy #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
If 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 Dolphy more closely than saxophonist/bandleader/poet/professor Roy Nathanson but we don't know if even Roy has heard the recordings from the WKCR archives that we'll play on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (8/21) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Did you know that you can find out more about Deep Focus and research past episodes here? https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ Photo credit: Eric Dolphy courtesy of Prestige Records.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #RoyNathanson #EricDolphy #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
You'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 Generation is finding its music. Can you win them over? What do you hit them with? Slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein and producer/beatmaster Scotty Hard have both been both relentless shatterers of audience expectations and dedicated fans of Miles Davis, particularly in this phase of his career. What happens if we put them in the audience for Miles's first night at the legendary Fillmore East? (and did we mention that it's Wayne Shorter's last gig with Miles?). Find out Monday (8/7) from 6p to 9p NYC time on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or 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: publishing info not available.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #ScottyHard #StevenBernstein #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #JazzRockFusion #FillmoreEast #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #BitchesBrew
You'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 Generation is finding its music. Can you win them over? What do you hit them with? Slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein and producer/beatmaster Scotty Hard have both been both relentless shatterers of audience expectations and dedicated fans of Miles Davis, particularly in this phase of his career. What happens if we put them in the audience for Miles's first night at the legendary Fillmore East? (and did we mention that it's Wayne Shorter's last gig with Miles?). Find out Monday (8/7) from 6p to 9p NYC time on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or 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: Miles Davis - Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. - 1970 by Robert Houston - Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert and Greta Houston.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #ScottyHard #StevenBernstein #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #JazzRockFusion #FillmoreEast #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #BitchesBrew
You'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 Generation is finding its music. Can you win them over? What do you hit them with? Slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein and producer/beatmaster Scotty Hard have both been both relentless shatterers of audience expectations and dedicated fans of Miles Davis, particularly in this phase of his career. What happens if we put them in the audience for Miles's first night at the legendary Fillmore East? (and did we mention that it's Wayne Shorter's last gig with Miles?). Find out Monday (8/7) from 6p to 9p NYC time on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or 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: Miles Davis - Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. - 1970 by Robert Houston - Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert and Greta Houston.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #ScottyHard #StevenBernstein #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #JazzRockFusion #FillmoreEast #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #BitchesBrew
The 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 the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Special bonus: Tuesday 7/25 at 7pm Mitch Goldman interviews Ahmed Abdullah about "A Strange Celestial Road" at Strand Books at 828 Broadway in Greenwich Village. The event is free and open to all.
Photo credit: Sun Ra - Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture - Gift of David D. Spitzer
WKCR #SunRa #AhmedAbdullah #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #SunRaArkestra #AStrangeCelestialRoad #BlankForms #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #LoftJazz #FreeJazz
The 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 the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Special bonus: Tuesday 7/25 at 7pm Mitch Goldman interviews Ahmed Abdullah about "A Strange Celestial Road" at Strand Books at 828 Broadway in Greenwich Village. The event is free and open to all.
Photo credit: Sun Ra and Mitch Goldman by Andy Hill
WKCR #SunRa #AhmedAbdullah #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #SunRaArkestra #AStrangeCelestialRoad #BlankForms #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #LoftJazz #FreeJazz
The 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 the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Special bonus: Tuesday 7/25 at 7pm Mitch Goldman interviews Ahmed Abdullah about "A Strange Celestial Road" at Strand Books at 828 Broadway in Greenwich Village. The event is free and open to all.
Photo credit: Sun Ra - Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture - Gift of David D. Spitzer
WKCR #SunRa #AhmedAbdullah #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #SunRaArkestra #AStrangeCelestialRoad #BlankForms #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #LoftJazz #FreeJazz
Who 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 improvisations on every member of the woodwind family (as well as those "little instruments"). With Jarman, walls turned into windows, windows into doors, and those doors flew off their hinges. So what's out there on the other side? Is it any surprise that William Hooker is summoning Jarman for this week's Deep Focus? An improvising drummer who puts all his food on the same plate, composing spontaneously for silent films, collaborating with DJs and rockers, exploring architecture and futurism and tribal traditions... hungry for the world. No, this one is gonna fly like hot lava from a volcano. This Monday (7/10) from 6p to 9p on WKCR 89.9FM and WKCR-HD in NYC, wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #JosephJarman #AEC #AECo #ArtEnsembleofChicago #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Who 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 improvisations on every member of the woodwind family (as well as those "little instruments"). With Jarman, walls turned into windows, windows into doors, and those doors flew off their hinges. So what's out there on the other side? Is it any surprise that William Hooker is summoning Jarman for this week's Deep Focus? An improvising drummer who puts all his food on the same plate, composing spontaneously for silent films, collaborating with DJs and rockers, exploring architecture and futurism and tribal traditions... hungry for the world. No, this one is gonna fly like hot lava from a volcano. This Monday (7/10) from 6p to 9p on WKCR 89.9FM and WKCR-HD in NYC, wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #JosephJarman #AEC #AECo #ArtEnsembleofChicago #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Who 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 improvisations on every member of the woodwind family (as well as those "little instruments"). With Jarman, walls turned into windows, windows into doors, and those doors flew off their hinges. So what's out there on the other side? Is it any surprise that William Hooker is summoning Jarman for this week's Deep Focus? An improvising drummer who puts all his food on the same plate, composing spontaneously for silent films, collaborating with DJs and rockers, exploring architecture and futurism and tribal traditions... hungry for the world. No, this one is gonna fly like hot lava from a volcano. This Monday (7/10) from 6p to 9p on WKCR 89.9FM and WKCR-HD in NYC, wkcr.org on the web. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #JosephJarman #AEC #AECo #ArtEnsembleofChicago #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Yes, 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 - licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VijayIyer #McCoyTyner #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Yes, 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 McMillen - This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VijayIyer #McCoyTyner #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Yes, 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 - licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VijayIyer #McCoyTyner #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
William 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 out but trust me: you are going to be a fly on the wall with William and me for some heavy, heavy business!
This Monday 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Photo credit: William Parker by Jimmy Katz, used by permission of William Parker, williamparker.net.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamParker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #FreeJazz #JazzImprov #VisionFest
William 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 out but trust me: you are going to be a fly on the wall with William and me for some heavy, heavy business!
This Monday 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
Photo credit: William Parker by Jimmy Katz, used by permission of William Parker, williamparker.net.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamParker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #FreeJazz #JazzImprov #VisionFest
William 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 one more time in the WKCR archives to try to find a live set from the legendary Five Spot of William playing with the mighty Don Cherry? A set William himself has never heard? CAN IT BE?! Ttrust me: you are going to be a fly on the wall with William and me for some heavy, heavy business!
This Monday 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
When 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 of Wes playing alone in a hotel room? Talk about crypto-jazzology, right?! This Monday (5/8) 6p to 9p EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ and your favorite podcasting app. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WesMontgomery #MarkWhitfield #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_ Photo first published by Gibson. According to NPR, the photo was taken by Chuck Stewart., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
When 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 of Wes playing alone in a hotel room? Talk about crypto-jazzology, right?! This Monday (5/8) 6p to 9p EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ and your favorite podcasting app. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WesMontgomery #MarkWhitfield #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_(1967) Published by A&M Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
When 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 of Wes playing alone in a hotel room? Talk about crypto-jazzology, right?! This Monday (5/8) 6p to 9p EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ and your favorite podcasting app. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WesMontgomery #MarkWhitfield #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_ Photo first published by Gibson. According to NPR, the photo was taken by Chuck Stewart., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This Monday (5/1) Jazz Alternatives presents Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on Andrew Cyrille with guest Daniel Sadownick.
Take a stroll through Andrew Cyrille's discography. The range of his work across the last 60+ years is practically gasp-inducing. Admire How many of the hundreds of sessions that he has anchored in that time represent the leader's best works. Weigh the sense of anticipation you feel when you see him taking the bandstand, the certainty that you are about to be led through a quarter that no one has ever visited before, not even him. This is a musician of great consequence.
Percussionist Daniel Sadownick knows a thing or two about the transformational power of music. He studied with Cyrille and will share his first-person insight with us.
Hey, did anyone remember to check the WKCR archives for astonishing, unknown live recordings? Oh yes, we did. Oh yes!
Monday night from 6pm to 9pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM in NYC, 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 joining hundreds of other episodes.
Photo credit: Andrew Cyrille by Shawn Brackbill, Brooklyn, NY, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor
This Monday (5/1) Jazz Alternatives presents Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on Andrew Cyrille with guest Daniel Sadownick.
Take a stroll through Andrew Cyrille's discography. The range of his work across the last 60+ years is practically gasp-inducing. Admire How many of the hundreds of sessions that he has anchored in that time represent the leader's best works. Weigh the sense of anticipation you feel when you see him taking the bandstand, the certainty that you are about to be led through a quarter that no one has ever visited before, not even him. This is a musician of great consequence.
Percussionist Daniel Sadownick knows a thing or two about the transformational power of music. He studied with Cyrille and will share his first-person insight with us.
Hey, did anyone remember to check the WKCR archives for astonishing, unknown live recordings? Oh yes, we did. Oh yes!
Monday night from 6pm to 9pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM in NYC, 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 joining hundreds of other episodes.
Photo credit: Andrew Cyrille by Shawn Brackbill, Brooklyn, NY, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor
This Monday (5/1) Jazz Alternatives presents Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on Andrew Cyrille with guest Daniel Sadownick.
Take a stroll through Andrew Cyrille's discography. The range of his work across the last 60+ years is practically gasp-inducing. Admire How many of the hundreds of sessions that he has anchored in that time represent the leader's best works. Weigh the sense of anticipation you feel when you see him taking the bandstand, the certainty that you are about to be led through a quarter that no one has ever visited before, not even him. This is a musician of great consequence.
Percussionist Daniel Sadownick knows a thing or two about the transformational power of music. He studied with Cyrille and will share his first-person insight with us.
Hey, did anyone remember to check the WKCR archives for astonishing, unknown live recordings? Oh yes, we did. Oh yes!
Monday night from 6pm to 9pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM in NYC, 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 joining hundreds of other episodes.
Photo credit: Andrew Cyrille by Shawn Brackbill, Brooklyn, NY, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor
The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to summon them, and few do as our guest for this Deep Focus, Ras Moshe. He and host Mitch Goldman bring us to the legendary Tin Palace for an exploration by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre at the height of his creative powers in the mid-Seventies. He is joined by some of the brightest lights of that continually-emerging scene. Want to know what it was really like? This will be a revelation. Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org Monday (3/20) 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #DeepFocus #Kalaparusha #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview
The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to summon them, and few do as our guest for this Deep Focus, Ras Moshe. He and host Mitch Goldman bring us to the legendary Tin Palace for an exploration by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre at the height of his creative powers in the mid-Seventies. He is joined by some of the brightest lights of that continually-emerging scene. Want to know what it was really like? This will be a revelation. Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org Monday (3/20) 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #DeepFocus #Kalaparusha #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview
The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to summon them, and few do as our guest for this Deep Focus, Ras Moshe. He and host Mitch Goldman bring us to the legendary Tin Palace for an exploration by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre at the height of his creative powers in the mid-Seventies. He is joined by some of the brightest lights of that continually-emerging scene. Want to know what it was really like? This will be a revelation. Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org Monday (3/20) 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #DeepFocus #Kalaparusha #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview
It's 1965. Wes Montgomery has been on the scene for more than 2 decades but he is just emerging as a major pop star. He has hit singles on the charts and he is touring major European concert venues. But in New York, he plays a series of shows at a small club on Spring Street called the Half Note. It's the spot downtown where all the cats check each other out.
For this episode, recorded on the actual centennial of Wes Montgomery's birth, you are a fly on the wall of the Half Note for some true musical magic. Our guide is a genuine adept of all things Wes: master guitarist Rodney Jones.
Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_(1967) Published by A&M Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
WKCR #DeepFocus #WesMontgomery #RodneyJones #MitchGoldman #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview
It's 1965. Wes Montgomery has been on the scene for more than 2 decades but he is just emerging as a major pop star. He has hit singles on the charts and he is touring major European concert venues. But in New York, he plays a series of shows at a small club on Spring Street called the Half Note. It's the spot downtown where all the cats check each other out.
For this episode, recorded on the actual centennial of Wes Montgomery's birth, you are a fly on the wall of the Half Note for some true musical magic. Our guide is a genuine adept of all things Wes: master guitarist Rodney Jones.
Also, an added bonus: is this Wes Montgomery practicing alone in a hotel room? Doing what no one else can? Rodney Jones seems to think so. What do you think?
WKCR #DeepFocus #WesMontgomery #RodneyJones #MitchGoldman #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview
Photo credit: Wes Montgomery - Photo first published by Gibson. According to NPR, the photo was taken by Chuck Stewart., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
It's 1965. Wes Montgomery has been on the scene for more than 2 decades but he is just emerging as a major pop star. He has hit singles on the charts and he is touring major European concert venues. But in New York, he plays a series of shows at a small club on Spring Street called the Half Note. It's the spot downtown where all the cats check each other out.
For this episode, recorded on the actual centennial of Wes Montgomery's birth, you are a fly on the wall of the Half Note for some true musical magic. Our guide is a genuine adept of all things Wes: master guitarist Rodney Jones.
Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_(1967) Published by A&M Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
WKCR #DeepFocus #WesMontgomery #RodneyJones #MitchGoldman #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview
Celebrating the glorious music of Dexter Gordon on the centenary of his birth, February 27, 2023, with the brilliant Eric Person.
Photo credit: Dexter Gordon at Mountain Winery Jazz Festival, Saratoga CA_1981 Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Celebrating the magnificent Dexter Gordon on the centenary of his birth, February 27, 2023, with the brilliant Eric Person.
Photo credit: Dexter_Gordon at Mountain Winery Jazz Festival, Saratoga CA_1981 Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Celebrating the incomparable Dexter Gordon on the centenary of his birth, February 27, 2023, with the brilliant Eric Person.
Photo credit: Dexter Gordon at Mountain Winery Jazz Festival, Saratoga CA_1981 Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jeff Beck arrived at a time when all the rules were being questioned. Unlike many of his contemporaries (and many in his audience), he never lost the sense of discovery in his music. Put an instrumental band together and get it played on the radio? Sure, why not? Collaborate with Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner? I'll try that! Introduce a whole new audience to the music of Charles Mingus? That's for me. And it never sounded stale or contrived or like the work of anyone else. Always, organically, Jeff Beck; his fans loved him for it. Jeff Beck, seemingly the eternally enthusiastic youngster, died this past January and a violent shockwave tore through the music community. No one was ready for him to go and so much felt unfinished. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org, guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Jeff Beck, with special attention to live recordings from the WKCR archives of his vibrant Seventies improvisations. Next week it goes up at the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JeffBeck #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview Photo credit: Jeff_Beck 1973 by Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0
Jeff Beck arrived at a time when all the rules were being questioned. Unlike many of his contemporaries (and many in his audience), he never lost the sense of discovery in his music. Put an instrumental band together and get it played on the radio? Sure, why not? Collaborate with Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner? I'll try that! Introduce a whole new audience to the music of Charles Mingus? That's for me. And it never sounded stale or contrived or like the work of anyone else. Always, organically, Jeff Beck; his fans loved him for it. Jeff Beck, seemingly the eternally enthusiastic youngster, died this past January and a violent shockwave tore through the music community. No one was ready for him to go and so much felt unfinished. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org, guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Jeff Beck, with special attention to live recordings from the WKCR archives of his vibrant Seventies improvisations. Next week it goes up at the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JeffBeck #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview Photo credit: Jeff_Beck 1973 by Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0
Jeff Beck arrived at a time when all the rules were being questioned. Unlike many of his contemporaries (and many in his audience), he never lost the sense of discovery in his music. Put an instrumental band together and get it played on the radio? Sure, why not? Collaborate with Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner? I'll try that! Introduce a whole new audience to the music of Charles Mingus? That's for me. And it never sounded stale or contrived or like the work of anyone else. Always, organically, Jeff Beck; his fans loved him for it. Jeff Beck, seemingly the eternally enthusiastic youngster, died this past January and a violent shockwave tore through the music community. No one was ready for him to go and so much felt unfinished. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org, guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Jeff Beck, with special attention to live recordings from the WKCR archives of his vibrant Seventies improvisations. Next week it goes up at the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JeffBeck #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview Photo credit: Jeff_Beck in 1979 - Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0 creative commons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Meet Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. In 1965, they traveled from West Germany to Le Chat Qui Pêche in Paris and found Don Cherry there. What flowed from that encounter is a tale of discovery and evolution that is still unfolding, still reaching new ears and new minds. Let's hear about it from them firsthand.
Hey, have you got any music we've never heard, Mitch? Do I? Do I!
WKCR #DeepFocus #DonCherry #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #CompleteCommunion
Photo credit: by Brian McMillen. Used by permission.
Meet Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. In 1965, they traveled from West Germany to Le Chat Qui Pêche in Paris and found Don Cherry there. What flowed from that encounter is a tale of discovery and evolution that is still unfolding, still reaching new ears and new minds. Let's hear about it from them firsthand.
Hey, have you got any music we've never heard, Mitch? Do I? Do I!
WKCR #DeepFocus #DonCherry #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #CompleteCommunion
Photo credit: by Mitch Goldman, copyright 1982. All rights reserved.
Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith." To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth. Brian Charette knows. He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity. On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was. It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview
Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith." To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth. Brian Charette knows. He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity. On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was. It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview
Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith." To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth. Brian Charette knows. He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity. On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was. It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted Song (which we absolutely love!) and tons of other off-center music had to come from someplace, but where? What inspires an emerging composer to take such brash risks and leaps of musical derring-do? Could it be from hearing one of Miles Davis' most outré bands at a formative age? Could there be a recording of such a show? Could there be a photograph of our young composer in the front row of the audience at such a show?!? COULD THAT BE HIM IN THIS PHOTO? The Shaboo Inn, in a remote corner of Connecticut, might have been the smallest venue Miles played in 1974 (he would play Carnegie Hall 2 months later). Even at that, even after canceling the first of 3 nights because Miles was too, er, "distracted," only 50 or 60 people showed up. So the stakes were low, Miles was high and the band (as ferocious a Murderers' Row as Miles ever assembled) was ready to eviscerate the songs that had been in the book for the previous 5 years. This one! THIS ONE, I tell ya! Tune in to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, along with hundreds of other episodes, on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #DavidSoldier #DaveSoldier #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: no publishing information available.
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted Song (which we absolutely love!) and tons of other off-center music had to come from someplace, but where? What inspires an emerging composer to take such brash risks and leaps of musical derring-do? Could it be from hearing one of Miles Davis' most outré bands at a formative age? Could there be a recording of such a show? Could there be a photograph of our young composer in the front row of the audience at such a show?!? COULD THAT BE HIM IN THIS PHOTO? The Shaboo Inn, in a remote corner of Connecticut, might have been the smallest venue Miles played in 1974 (he would play Carnegie Hall 2 months later). Even at that, even after canceling the first of 3 nights because Miles was too, er, "distracted," only 50 or 60 people showed up. So the stakes were low, Miles was high and the band (as ferocious a Murderers' Row as Miles ever assembled) was ready to eviscerate the songs that had been in the book for the previous 5 years. This one! THIS ONE, I tell ya! Tune in to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, along with hundreds of other episodes, on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #DavidSoldier #DaveSoldier #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: no publishing information available.
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted Song (which we absolutely love!) and tons of other off-center music had to come from someplace, but where? What inspires an emerging composer to take such brash risks and leaps of musical derring-do? Could it be from hearing one of Miles Davis' most outré bands at a formative age? Could there be a recording of such a show? Could there be a photograph of our young composer in the front row of the audience at such a show?!? COULD THAT BE HIM IN THIS PHOTO? The Shaboo Inn, in a remote corner of Connecticut, might have been the smallest venue Miles played in 1974 (he would play Carnegie Hall 2 months later). Even at that, even after canceling the first of 3 nights because Miles was too, er, "distracted," only 50 or 60 people showed up. So the stakes were low, Miles was high and the band (as ferocious a Murderers' Row as Miles ever assembled) was ready to eviscerate the songs that had been in the book for the previous 5 years. This one! THIS ONE, I tell ya! Tune in to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, along with hundreds of other episodes, on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #DavidSoldier #DaveSoldier #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: no publishing information available.
In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard player? Check. Hard-swinging drummer? Check. Inventive electric bassist? Check. Fathomless well of creative ideas and the fearlessness to apply them? Check and double-check. One aspirant who was so moved by this that he picked up a guitar and never put it down was our guest, Vernon Reid. So did Santana ever play this music live? Did anyone think to record it? Did those recordings find their way to the WKCR archives? Does Vernon Reid have 50 years' worth of introspection on this music to share? Hmmm... One way to find out! Tune in to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus with guest Vernon Reid this Monday 11/28 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or 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: Carlos Santana_1973 Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #CarlosSantana #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard player? Check. Hard-swinging drummer? Check. Inventive electric bassist? Check. Fathomless well of creative ideas and the fearlessness to apply them? Check and double-check. One aspirant who was so moved by this that he picked up a guitar and never put it down was our guest, Vernon Reid. So did Santana ever play this music live? Did anyone think to record it? Did those recordings find their way to the WKCR archives? Does Vernon Reid have 50 years' worth of introspection on this music to share? Hmmm... One way to find out! Tune in to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus with guest Vernon Reid this Monday 11/28 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or 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: Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #CarlosSantana #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard player? Check. Hard-swinging drummer? Check. Inventive electric bassist? Check. Fathomless well of creative ideas and the fearlessness to apply them? Check and double-check. One aspirant who was so moved by this that he picked up a guitar and never put it down was our guest, Vernon Reid. So did Santana ever play this music live? Did anyone think to record it? Did those recordings find their way to the WKCR archives? Does Vernon Reid have 50 years' worth of introspection on this music to share? Hmmm... One way to find out! Tune in to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus with guest Vernon Reid this Monday 11/28 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or 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: Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #CarlosSantana #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb. Here's one definition: to change the orientation of something familiar so that it becomes unimaginably magnificent. Example: "I'm going to Lester Bowie this pebble and make a beautiful jewel out of it" or "I'm going to Lester Bowie these old tires into a holiday feast." It helps if you apply a bit of magic as Lester always seemed to manage to do.
This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Eric Person and host Mitch Goldman put Lester Bowie in Deep Focus. While Lester may be more familiar from his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Brass Fantasy, Eric and Mitch are digging somewhat deeper. Once again, gems from the WKCR archives abound. Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #EricPerson #LesterBowie #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb. Here's one definition: to change the orientation of something familiar so that it becomes unimaginably magnificent. Example: "I'm going to Lester Bowie this pebble and make a beautiful jewel out of it" or "I'm going to Lester Bowie these old tires into a holiday feast." It helps if you apply a bit of magic as Lester always seemed to manage to do.
This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Eric Person and host Mitch Goldman put Lester Bowie in Deep Focus. While Lester may be more familiar from his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Brass Fantasy, Eric and Mitch are digging somewhat deeper. Once again, gems from the WKCR archives abound. Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #EricPerson #LesterBowie #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Lester Bowie, Sweet Basil, NYC by Anthony Barboza, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Fair use.
"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb. Here's one definition: to change the orientation of something familiar so that it becomes unimaginably magnificent. Example: "I'm going to Lester Bowie this pebble and make a beautiful jewel out of it" or "I'm going to Lester Bowie these old tires into a holiday feast." It helps if you apply a bit of magic as Lester always seemed to manage to do.
This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Eric Person and host Mitch Goldman put Lester Bowie in Deep Focus. While Lester may be more familiar from his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Brass Fantasy, Eric and Mitch are digging somewhat deeper. Once again, gems from the WKCR archives abound. Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #EricPerson #LesterBowie #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015.
The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame." Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies. A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members. This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard.
Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light. WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave
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This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015.
The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame." Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies. A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members. This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard.
Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light. WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave
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This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015.
The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame." Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies. A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members. This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard.
Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light. WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave
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No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did. William Hooker heard the call through the music and it changed his life. William joins Mitch Goldman to remember this enduring moment of inspiration and to explore the WKCR archives. Jewels abound. The Pharoah Sanders Memorial Broadcast is all day Monday 9/26. This segment is 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #PharoahSanders #PharoahSandersMemorialBroadcast #WilliamHooker #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did. William Hooker heard the call through the music and it changed his life. William joins Mitch Goldman to remember this enduring moment of inspiration and to explore the WKCR archives. Jewels abound. The Pharoah Sanders Memorial Broadcast is all day Monday 9/26. This segment is 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #PharoahSanders #PharoahSandersMemorialBroadcast #WilliamHooker #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Pharoah Sanders by Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did. William Hooker heard the call through the music and it changed his life. William joins Mitch Goldman to remember this enduring moment of inspiration and to explore the WKCR archives. Jewels abound. The Pharoah Sanders Memorial Broadcast is all day Monday 9/26. This segment is 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #PharoahSanders #PharoahSandersMemorialBroadcast #WilliamHooker #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Pharoah Sanders by Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather than the other way around. Dollar Brand came of age as a pianist in South Africa in the late Fifties, just in time for the multiethnic explosion of Johannesburg's Sophiatown. In the wake of the repression that followed the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, he became a European exile. Within months, his music came to the attention of Duke Ellington who was so moved that he brought about the LP session Duke Ellington presents The Dollar Brand Trio on Frank Sinatra's Reprise label. Brand came to New York, subbed for Duke leading the Ellington Orchestra and attended Juilliard. But experiences with John Coltrane, Don Cherry and the progressive cadre of the Jazz world gave him a new appreciation of his African roots and he incorporated them into his music. He returned to South Africa, converted to Islam and became Abdullah Ibrahim. With these changes came a new style of music that embraced the multi-kulti, freedom-loving culture of his native Cape Town. His song "Mannenberg" became a theme for the anti-apartheid movement. After South African police fired on children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976, Ibrahim publicly came out in support of the African National Congress and subsequently returned to New York. Here he found a community of open-minded musicians and an audience that was supportive of his distinctively contemplative and deeply grooving music. After the Apartheid regime fell and Nelson Mandela became president, Ibrahim returned to Cape Town; In 2022, he is still recording and performing throughout the world. What's that you say? "Gary Lucas? That guy's a rocker! Who is he to talk about Abdullah Ibrahim?" A rocker? Guess what: so is Abdullah Ibrahim! Have you heard Gary's version of Ibrahim's "Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro"? You will have a whole different understanding of who both of these guys are. Besides, Gary Lucas is a true musical gourmand of the New York old school and I love to talk about music with him. I can't wait to hear what he has to say about his fellow iconoclast. As always, the WKCR archives have delivered some rare beauties for us to cherish. This Monday (Sept. 19) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AbdullahIbrahim #GaryLucas #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather than the other way around. Dollar Brand came of age as a pianist in South Africa in the late Fifties, just in time for the multiethnic explosion of Johannesburg's Sophiatown. In the wake of the repression that followed the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, he became a European exile. Within months, his music came to the attention of Duke Ellington who was so moved that he brought about the LP session Duke Ellington presents The Dollar Brand Trio on Frank Sinatra's Reprise label. Brand came to New York, subbed for Duke leading the Ellington Orchestra and attended Juilliard. But experiences with John Coltrane, Don Cherry and the progressive cadre of the Jazz world gave him a new appreciation of his African roots and he incorporated them into his music. He returned to South Africa, converted to Islam and became Abdullah Ibrahim. With these changes came a new style of music that embraced the multi-kulti, freedom-loving culture of his native Cape Town. His song "Mannenberg" became a theme for the anti-apartheid movement. After South African police fired on children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976, Ibrahim publicly came out in support of the African National Congress and subsequently returned to New York. Here he found a community of open-minded musicians and an audience that was supportive of his distinctively contemplative and deeply grooving music. After the Apartheid regime fell and Nelson Mandela became president, Ibrahim returned to Cape Town; In 2022, he is still recording and performing throughout the world. What's that you say? "Gary Lucas? That guy's a rocker! Who is he to talk about Abdullah Ibrahim?" A rocker? Guess what: so is Abdullah Ibrahim! Have you heard Gary's version of Ibrahim's "Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro"? You will have a whole different understanding of who both of these guys are. Besides, Gary Lucas is a true musical gourmand of the New York old school and I love to talk about music with him. I can't wait to hear what he has to say about his fellow iconoclast. As always, the WKCR archives have delivered some rare beauties for us to cherish. This Monday (Sept. 19) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AbdullahIbrahim #GaryLucas #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather than the other way around. Dollar Brand came of age as a pianist in South Africa in the late Fifties, just in time for the multiethnic explosion of Johannesburg's Sophiatown. In the wake of the repression that followed the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, he became a European exile. Within months, his music came to the attention of Duke Ellington who was so moved that he brought about the LP session Duke Ellington presents The Dollar Brand Trio on Frank Sinatra's Reprise label. Brand came to New York, subbed for Duke leading the Ellington Orchestra and attended Juilliard. But experiences with John Coltrane, Don Cherry and the progressive cadre of the Jazz world gave him a new appreciation of his African roots and he incorporated them into his music. He returned to South Africa, converted to Islam and became Abdullah Ibrahim. With these changes came a new style of music that embraced the multi-kulti, freedom-loving culture of his native Cape Town. His song "Mannenberg" became a theme for the anti-apartheid movement. After South African police fired on children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976, Ibrahim publicly came out in support of the African National Congress and subsequently returned to New York. Here he found a community of open-minded musicians and an audience that was supportive of his distinctively contemplative and deeply grooving music. After the Apartheid regime fell and Nelson Mandela became president, Ibrahim returned to Cape Town; In 2022, he is still recording and performing throughout the world. What's that you say? "Gary Lucas? That guy's a rocker! Who is he to talk about Abdullah Ibrahim?" A rocker? Guess what: so is Abdullah Ibrahim! Have you heard Gary's version of Ibrahim's "Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro"? You will have a whole different understanding of who both of these guys are. Besides, Gary Lucas is a true musical gourmand of the New York old school and I love to talk about music with him. I can't wait to hear what he has to say about his fellow iconoclast. As always, the WKCR archives have delivered some rare beauties for us to cherish. This Monday (Sept. 19) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AbdullahIbrahim #GaryLucas #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an iconoclast. When the music was dismissed as being chaotic and structureless, Dixon was an aggressive organizer and conceptualist. Was this a whole new way of arranging sound to convey ideas? Graham Haynes worked with Bill Dixon late in Dixon's life and shares insights with host Mitch Goldman about the man and his music. The WKCR archives reveal recordings that even many of his greatest fans have not heard. Monday night Sept. 5 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, available on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BillDixon #GrahamHaynes #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an iconoclast. When the music was dismissed as being chaotic and structureless, Dixon was an aggressive organizer and conceptualist. Was this a whole new way of arranging sound to convey ideas? Graham Haynes worked with Bill Dixon late in Dixon's life and shares insights with host Mitch Goldman about the man and his music. The WKCR archives reveal recordings that even many of his greatest fans have not heard. Monday night Sept. 5 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, available on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BillDixon #GrahamHaynes #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an iconoclast. When the music was dismissed as being chaotic and structureless, Dixon was an aggressive organizer and conceptualist. Was this a whole new way of arranging sound to convey ideas? Graham Haynes worked with Bill Dixon late in Dixon's life and shares insights with host Mitch Goldman about the man and his music. The WKCR archives reveal recordings that even many of his greatest fans have not heard. Monday night Sept. 5 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, available on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BillDixon #GrahamHaynes #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020. Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins Mitch in examining rare live recordings of the magnificent guitarist Pat Martino who we lost since our last live broadcast. If Pat Martino had not existed, some brilliant screenwriter would have had to make him up. But who would have ever believed such a crazy story? What other artist ever brought himself to the top of his game (a highwire act if ever there was one), then fell back to earth due to a near-fatal brain seizure (he had no recollection after it of guitar or even of his own family) and then started from the beginning to teach himself again to be "the guitarists' guitarist"? And too bad the movie could never be made because no one else could play with his flawless chops and immediacy. Pat Martino is an enduring model of how to live on the bandstand. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #PatMartino #BenTyree #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #MitchGoldman
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Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020. Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins Mitch in examining rare live recordings of the magnificent guitarist Pat Martino who we lost since our last live broadcast. If Pat Martino had not existed, some brilliant screenwriter would have had to make him up. But who would have ever believed such a crazy story? What other artist ever brought himself to the top of his game (a highwire act if ever there was one), then fell back to earth due to a near-fatal brain malformation (he had no recollection after his surgery of guitar or even of his own family) and then started from the beginning to teach himself again to be "the guitarists' guitarist"? And too bad the movie could never be made because no one else could play with his flawless chops and immediacy. Pat Martino is an enduring model of how to live on the bandstand. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #PatMartino #BenTyree #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #MitchGoldman
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Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020. Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins Mitch in examining rare live recordings of the magnificent guitarist Pat Martino who we lost since our last live broadcast. If Pat Martino had not existed, some brilliant screenwriter would have had to make him up. But who would have ever believed such a crazy story? What other artist ever brought himself to the top of his game (a highwire act if ever there was one), then fell back to earth due to a near-fatal brain seizure (he had no recollection after it of guitar or even of his own family) and then started from the beginning to teach himself again to be "the guitarists' guitarist"? And too bad the movie could never be made because no one else could play with his flawless chops and immediacy. Pat Martino is an enduring model of how to live on the bandstand. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #PatMartino #BenTyree #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #MitchGoldman
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In the wake of Ornette Coleman's death in June of 2015, Mitch Goldman presented a series of Deep Focus episodes around his music. This one, with bassist/bandleader Melvin Gibbs, one of the many alumni of Harmolodic High School, focuses on rare recordings from Prime Time in the critical year of 1978. Monday (7/25) from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and WKCR.Org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #OrnetteColeman #MelvinGibbs #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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In the wake of Ornette Coleman's death in June of 2015, Mitch Goldman presented a series of Deep Focus episodes around his music. This one, with bassist/bandleader Melvin Gibbs, one of the many alumni of Harmolodic High School, focuses on rare recordings of Prime Time from the critical year of 1978. Monday (7/25) from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and WKCR.Org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #OrnetteColeman #MelvinGibbs #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
In the wake of Ornette Coleman's death in June of 2015, Mitch Goldman presented a series of Deep Focus episodes around his music. This one, with bassist/bandleader Melvin Gibbs, one of the many alumni of Harmolodic High School, focuses on rare recordings from Prime Time in the critical year of 1978. Monday (7/25) from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and WKCR.Org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #OrnetteColeman #MelvinGibbs #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
This we love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject. It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree has selected fellow plectrist Vernon Reid.
Even though Vernon Reid has reached the heights of recognition as an instrumentalist (for instance, Rolling Stone calling him one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time), Ben and host Mitch Goldman still think he is wildly underrated and they are going to prove it to you. It's a rebroadcast of a highlight of 2019. It features music originally performed in the WKCR studios as part of Charles Blass's Live Constructions and what seemed at the time to be Vernon Reid's personal salon, Tonic. Deep Focus this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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This we love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject. It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree has selected fellow plectrist Vernon Reid.
Even though Vernon Reid has reached the heights of recognition as an instrumentalist (for instance, Rolling Stone calling him one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time), Ben and host Mitch Goldman still think he is wildly underrated and they are going to prove it to you. It's a rebroadcast of a highlight of 2019 and it features music originally performed in the WKCR studios as part of Charles Blass's Live Constructions. Deep Focus this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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This we love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject. It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree has selected fellow plectrist Vernon Reid.
Even though Vernon Reid has reached the heights of recognition as an instrumentalist (for instance, Rolling Stone calling him one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time), Ben and host Mitch Goldman still think he is wildly underrated and they are going to prove it to you. It's a rebroadcast of a highlight of 2019 and it features music originally performed in the WKCR studios as part of Charles Blass's Live Constructions as well as from what seemed at the time to be Vernon Reid's personal salon, Tonic. Deep Focus this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music. In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow drummer/composer William Hooker thinks (and feels) as deeply about the role of drums as anyone we have heard speak on the topic. Special guest appearance from reedman/scholar Ras Moshe. This Monday night (6/13) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at our hosting site https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ You can also find out more about the show and search for past episodes here: https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music. In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow drummer/composer William Hooker thinks (and feels) as deeply about the role of drums as anyone we have heard speak on the topic. Special guest appearance from reedman/scholar Ras Moshe. This Monday night (6/13) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at our hosting site https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ You can also find out more about the show and search for past episodes here: https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music. In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow drummer/composer William Hooker thinks (and feels) as deeply about the role of drums as anyone we have heard speak on the topic. Special guest appearance from reedman/scholar Ras Moshe. This Monday night (6/13) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at our hosting site https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ You can also find out more about the show and search for past episodes here: https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ And a special mention: William Hooker's feature-length documentary, "the Lost Generation: Outside the Mainstream" is showing at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. NYC, this Sunday, June 19th, 2022 7:00 PM
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer/bandleader Ben Perowsky. They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in Deep Focus with unreleased live recordings. When Sony put out “Live in Europe 1967,” Pitchfork said, “It isn’t just the best band Miles ever led, but one of the choicest small groups in jazz history… At its heart, jazz thrives on bold, sensitive interaction in the moment, and Live in Europe 1967 represents the pinnacle of that practice.” That may well be but the whole story has not been told. We can’t wait to hear what Ben Perowsky has to say about these recordings from the WKCR archives.
Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BenPerowksy #MilesDavis #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer/bandleader Ben Perowsky. They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in Deep Focus with unreleased live recordings. When Sony put out “Live in Europe 1967,” Pitchfork said, “It isn’t just the best band Miles ever led, but one of the choicest small groups in jazz history… At its heart, jazz thrives on bold, sensitive interaction in the moment, and Live in Europe 1967 represents the pinnacle of that practice.” That may well be but the whole story has not been told. We can’t wait to hear what Ben Perowsky has to say about these recordings from the WKCR archives.
Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BenPerowksy #MilesDavis #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer/bandleader Ben Perowsky. They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in Deep Focus with unreleased live recordings. When Sony put out “Live in Europe 1967,” Pitchfork said, “It isn’t just the best band Miles ever led, but one of the choicest small groups in jazz history… At its heart, jazz thrives on bold, sensitive interaction in the moment, and Live in Europe 1967 represents the pinnacle of that practice.” That may well be but the whole story has not been told. We can’t wait to hear what Ben Perowsky has to say about these recordings from the WKCR archives.
Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BenPerowksy #MilesDavis #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Oh, the riches! Not only a Deep Focus on Wayne Shorter's then-recent work with his Quartet, not only the inspired and inspiring Eric Person as Mitch Goldman's guest, not only never-before-heard, studio-quality recordings of Wayne, but also a twenty-minute pop-in from Phil Schaap. And this was on the occasion of Wayne's 80th birthday in 2013-- wow. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WayneShorter #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #PhilSchaap
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Oh, the riches! Not only a Deep Focus on Wayne Shorter's then-recent work with his Quartet, not only the inspired and inspiring Eric Person as Mitch Goldman's guest, not only never-before-heard, studio-quality recordings of Wayne, but also a twenty-minute pop-in from Phil Schaap. And this was on the occasion of Wayne's 80th birthday in 2013-- wow. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WayneShorter #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #PhilSchaap
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Oh, the riches! Not only a Deep Focus on Wayne Shorter's then-recent work with his Quartet, not only the inspired and inspiring Eric Person as Mitch Goldman's guest, not only never-before-heard, studio-quality recordings of Wayne, but also a twenty-minute pop-in from Phil Schaap. And this was on the occasion of Wayne's 80th birthday in 2013-- wow. It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org on Mondays from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WayneShorter #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #PhilSchaap
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It's after the end of the world. Don't you know that yet? Host Mitch Goldman and saxophonist Eric Person put Sun Ra in Deep Focus tonight (5/2) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org in a rebroadcast from Sun Ra's 2014 centennial broadcast. And what of those WKCR archives? Bones. Nothing but love bones! This week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Free prizes, chosen just for you!
WKCR #SunRa #EricPerson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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It's after the end of the world. Don't you know that yet? Host Mitch Goldman and saxophonist Eric Person put Sun Ra in Deep Focus tonight (5/2) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org in a rebroadcast from Sun Ra's 2014 centennial broadcast. And what of those WKCR archives? Bones. Nothing but love bones! This week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Free prizes, chosen just for you!
WKCR #SunRa #EricPerson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1927 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice.
It's after the end of the world. Don't you know that yet? Host Mitch Goldman and saxophonist Eric Person put Sun Ra in Deep Focus tonight (5/2) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org in a rebroadcast from Sun Ra's 2014 centennial broadcast. And what of those WKCR archives? Bones. Nothing but love bones! This week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Free prizes, chosen just for you!
WKCR #SunRa #EricPerson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1927 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice.
This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000’s. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock. Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we’ve got the goods to prove it! In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.
This Monday night (4/11) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave
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This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000’s. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock. Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we’ve got the goods to prove it! In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.
This Monday night (4/11) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave
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This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000’s. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock. Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we’ve got the goods to prove it! In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.
This Monday night (4/11) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave
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There is no living artist in the Jazz firmament more revered than Sonny Rollins. He is admired for, among other things, eluding his audience's expectations of him. Never was this more true than on July 19, 1985 when he performed a set entirely unaccompanied in the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art. Listening to this set, the listener gets to hear Sonny working the puzzles, rebuses, puns and equations that inform his best improvisations. It is as revealing as the glass and steel structure of the modern buildings that surrounded MoMA. And who was it that invited Sonny Rollins to do that performance? None other than WKCR alumnus Andy Caploe. On this Deep Focus from 2015, Andy and I listen to that set, as well as some other Rollins prizes from the WKCR archive. Andy offers memories and insights that can only come from one who was present at the moment of creation. Trigger warning: Andy and I were having way too much fun. Our recommendation: join in! On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wckr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnyRollins #AndyCaploe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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There is no living artist in the Jazz firmament more revered than Sonny Rollins. He is admired for, among other things, eluding his audience's expectations of him. Never was this more true than on July 19, 1985 when he performed a set entirely unaccompanied in the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art. Listening to this set, the listener gets to hear Sonny working the puzzles, rebuses, puns and equations that inform his best improvisations. It is as revealing as the glass and steel structure of the modern buildings that surrounded MoMA. And who was it that invited Sonny Rollins to do that performance? None other than WKCR alumnus Andy Caploe. On this Deep Focus from 2015, Andy and I listen to that set, as well as some other Rollins prizes from the WKCR archive. Andy offers memories and insights that can only come from one who was present at the moment of creation. Trigger warning: Andy and I were having way too much fun. Our recommendation: join in! On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wckr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnyRollins #AndyCaploe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Sonny Rollins by Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org licenses-by-sa-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
There is no living artist in the Jazz firmament more revered than Sonny Rollins. He is admired for, among other things, eluding his audience's expectations of him. Never was this more true than on July 19, 1985 when he performed a set entirely unaccompanied in the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art. Listening to this set, the listener gets to hear Sonny working the puzzles, rebuses, puns and equations that inform his best improvisations. It is as revealing as the glass and steel structure of the modern buildings that surrounded MoMA. And who was it that invited Sonny Rollins to do that performance? None other than WKCR alumnus Andy Caploe. On this Deep Focus from 2015, Andy and I listen to that set, as well as some other Rollins prizes from the WKCR archive. Andy offers memories and insights that can only come from one who was present at the moment of creation. Trigger warning: Andy and I were having way too much fun. Our recommendation: join in! On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wckr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnyRollins #AndyCaploe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Sonny Rollins by Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org licenses-by-sa-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Weather Report... All created challenging instrumental music in the Seventies, all had large, dedicated audiences and all have been the subject of Deep Focus. Add tonight's subject to that list.
Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree and I will put Frank Zappa in Deep Focus Monday from 6 pm to 9 pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org in this rebroadcast from 2019. I'm amazed that no one has called for this one before!
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BenTyree #FrankZappa
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Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Weather Report... All created challenging instrumental music in the Seventies, all had large, dedicated audiences and all have been the subject of Deep Focus. Add tonight's subject to that list.
Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree and I will put Frank Zappa in Deep Focus Monday from 6 pm to 9 pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org in this rebroadcast from 2019. I'm amazed that no one has called for this one before!
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BenTyree #FrankZappa
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Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Weather Report... All created challenging instrumental music in the Seventies, all had large, dedicated audiences and all have been the subject of Deep Focus. Add tonight's subject to that list.
Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree and I will put Frank Zappa in Deep Focus Monday from 6 pm to 9 pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org in this rebroadcast from 2019. I'm amazed that no one has called for this one before!
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BenTyree #FrankZappa
Photo credit: Frank Zappa and The Mothers - ©1992 George Rodríguez, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution NPG-B5000108C
The music I love has porous boundaries. If the audience responds to what they hear, the musicians will give that energy right back to them. If the acoustics are kind, the music will communicate better among the musicians, between musician and audience. But what about the people the artists met that day? And the food they ate and the air they breathed? Can an audience hear all of that? What about the lives people have lived in that place? The love and sacrifice that was made there? And what about what was in that place before all of that? Does a place have a spirit and can it live in the music? Oh, hell yes it can and it does! Don't believe me? Drummer Pheeroan akLaff and I will prove it to you on this week's Deep Focus, recorded in 2011. We explore rare live recordings of Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Japan in the Sixties when that country was just taking its place on the world's stage. This Monday on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #JohnColtrane #PheeroanakLaff #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #LiveJazz #JazzInJapan #Japan
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The music I love has porous boundaries. If the audience responds to what they hear, the musicians will give that energy right back to them. If the acoustics are kind, the music will communicate better among the musicians, between musician and audience. But what about the people the artists met that day? And the food they ate and the air they breathed? Can an audience hear all of that? What about the lives people have lived in that place? The love and sacrifice that was made there? And what about what was in that place before all of that? Does a place have a spirit and can it live in the music? Oh, yes it can and it does! Don't believe me? Drummer Pheeroan akLaff and I will prove it to you on this week's Deep Focus, recorded in 2011. We explore rare live recordings of Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Japan in the Sixties when that country was just taking its place on the world's stage. This Monday on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #JohnColtrane #PheeroanakLaff #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #LiveJazz #JazzInJapan #Japan
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The music I love has porous boundaries. If the audience responds to what they hear, the musicians will give that energy right back to them. If the acoustics are kind, the music will communicate better among the musicians, between musician and audience. But what about the people the artists met that day? And the food they ate and the air they breathed? Can an audience hear all of that? What about the lives people have lived in that place? The love and sacrifice that was made there? And what about what was in that place before all of that? Does a place have a spirit and can it live in the music? Oh, yes it can and it does! Don't believe me? Drummer Pheeroan akLaff and I will prove it to you on this week's Deep Focus, recorded in 2011. We explore rare live recordings of Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Japan in the Sixties when that country was just taking its place on the world's stage. This Monday on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #JohnColtrane #PheeroanakLaff #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #LiveJazz
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Rebroadcast January 31, 2022.
Melville said, “Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.” So, yeah, if you’re a young musician who sees the need to craft your own language but can’t yet say just what it’s going to be, you’re going to seek someone else on a similar path. If you find your way, you don’t forget having had that experience. Vijay Iyer did a Deep Focus with me on Andrew Hill and another on Thelonious Monk; this time it’s Geri Allen. Are you starting to see the pattern?
Photo credit: Geri Allen - photo credit Pittsburgh City Paper.
Rebroadcast January 31, 2022.
Melville said, “Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.” So, yeah, if you’re a young musician who sees the need to craft your own language but can’t yet say just what it’s going to be, you’re going to seek someone else on a similar path. If you find your way, you don’t forget having had that experience. Vijay Iyer did a Deep Focus with me on Andrew Hill and another on Thelonious Monk; this time it’s Geri Allen. Are you starting to see the pattern?
Geri Allen - photo credit Pittsburgh City Paper.
Rebroadcast January 31, 2022.
Melville said, “Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.” So, yeah, if you’re a young musician who sees the need to craft your own language but can’t yet say just what it’s going to be, you’re going to seek someone else on a similar path. If you find your way, you don’t forget having had that experience. Vijay Iyer did a Deep Focus with me on Andrew Hill and another on Thelonious Monk; this time it’s Geri Allen. Are you starting to see the pattern?
Geri Allen - photo credit Pittsburgh City Paper.
You know what's wrong with this country? We don't spend enough time talking about pianist Bud Powell. Well, this Monday from 6pm to 9pm on Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist David Virelles, are going to do something about that. The WKCR archives delivered live recordings so rare that they are not found in any discography. Bud's son John Powell even calls during the show saying even he had not heard them! It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BudPowell #DavidVirelles #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Bud Powell by Herman Leonard, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.si.edu
You know what's wrong with this country? We don't spend enough time talking about pianist Bud Powell. Well, this Monday from 6pm to 9pm on Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist David Virelles, are going to do something about that. The WKCR archives delivered live recordings so rare that they are not found in any discography. Bud's son John Powell even calls during the show saying even he had not heard them! Roy Haynes checks in and there's even an interview with Bud you've probably never heard. It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BudPowell #DavidVirelles #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Bud Powell by Herman Leonard, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.si.edu
You know what's wrong with this country? We don't spend enough time talking about pianist Bud Powell. Well, this Monday from 6pm to 9pm on Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist David Virelles, are going to do something about that. The WKCR archives delivered live recordings so rare that they are not found in any discography. Bud's son John Powell even calls during the show saying even he had not heard them! And Roy Haynes tunes in from his home in Queens. It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BudPowell #DavidVirelles #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Bud Powell by Herman Leonard, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.si.edu
The hand and the drum: after the human voice, probably the original musical instrument. But the question tonight on Deep Focus is its possibilities for modern improvisation, outside of the bounds of the Afro-Cuban tradition. It is possible that no one has dived deeper on this question than Adam Rudolph: Big Black with Randy Weston provides an answer, Mtume and Don Alias with Miles Davis have another. We lost Mtume last week so it's a fitting time to celebrate his music, as we do in this Deep Focus from 2017.
With live, unreleased recordings, you're going to want to have something to beat on for this one!
Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #AdamRudolph #BigBlack #Mtume #MilesDavis #ElectricMiles
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The hand and the drum: after the human voice, probably the original musical instrument. But the question tonight on Deep Focus is its possibilities for modern improvisation, outside of the bounds of the Afro-Cuban tradition. It is possible that no one has dived deeper on this question than Adam Rudolph: Big Black with Randy Weston provides an answer, Mtume and Don Alias with Miles Davis have another. We lost Mtume last week so it's a fitting time to celebrate his music, as we do in this Deep Focus from 2017.
With live, unreleased recordings, you're going to want to have something to beat on for this one!
Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #AdamRudolph #BigBlack #Mtume #MilesDavis #ElectricMiles
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The hand and the drum: after the human voice, probably the original musical instrument. But the question tonight on Deep Focus is its possibilities for modern improvisation, outside of the bounds of the Afro-Cuban tradition. It is possible that no one has dived deeper on this question than Adam Rudolph: Big Black with Randy Weston has an answer, Mtume and Don Alias with Miles Davis provide another. We lost Mtume last week so it's a fitting time to celebrate his music, as we do in this Deep Focus from 2017.
With live, unreleased recordings, you're going to want to have something to beat on for this one!
Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #AdamRudolph #BigBlack #Mtume #MilesDavis #ElectricMiles
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Melvin Gibbs is hearing things that I am not hearing yet. I know this from the choices he makes as a bassist, his work as a composer and especially what he does leading bands like Harriet Tubman, his collaboration with Brandon Ross and JT Lewis. So what is he hearing in the music of one of my favorite bands, the Art Ensemble of Chicago? Is it the knowing improvisation? the distinctive sonorities of the compositions? maybe the theatricality? the posts, slants and buttonhooks of their fast and far-ranging live shows? I can’t wait to find out!
Melvin Gibbs is hearing things that I am not hearing yet. I know this from the choices he makes as a bassist, his work as a composer and especially what he does leading bands like Harriet Tubman, his collaboration with Brandon Ross and JT Lewis. So what is he hearing in the music of one of my favorite bands, the Art Ensemble of Chicago? Is it the knowing improvisation? the distinctive sonorities of the compositions? maybe the theatricality? the posts, slants and buttonhooks of their fast and far-ranging live shows? I can’t wait to find out!
Melvin Gibbs is hearing things that I am not hearing yet. I know this from the choices he makes as a bassist, his work as a composer and especially what he does leading bands like Harriet Tubman, his collaboration with Brandon Ross and JT Lewis. So what is he hearing in the music of one of my favorite bands, the Art Ensemble of Chicago? Is it the knowing improvisation? the distinctive sonorities of the compositions? maybe the theatricality? the posts, slants and buttonhooks of their fast and far-ranging live shows? I can’t wait to find out!
DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #WKCR #MelvinGibbs #HarrietTubman #ArtEnsembleOfChicago
Let's keep the dance alive! The previous episodes of Deep Focus had us listening to live recordings of The Art Ensemble of Chicago with percussionist Daniel Sadownick. Let's take another view of them (with yet more live, unreleased recordings) with percussionist/bandleader Adam Rudolph. Adam grew up around the members of The Art Ensemble on the South Side of Chicago. Who knew?!
Deep Focus is Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday mornings it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #AdamRudolph #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #JazzInterview #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Let's keep the dance alive! The previous episodes of Deep Focus had us listening to live recordings of The Art Ensemble of Chicago with percussionist Daniel Sadownick. Let's take another view of them (with yet more live, unreleased recordings) with percussionist/bandleader Adam Rudolph. Adam grew up around the members of The Art Ensemble on the South Side of Chicago. Who knew?!
Deep Focus is Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday mornings it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #AdamRudolph #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #JazzInterview #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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Let's keep the dance alive! The previous episodes of Deep Focus had us listening to live recordings of The Art Ensemble of Chicago with percussionist Daniel Sadownick. Let's take another view of them (with yet more live, unreleased recordings) with percussionist/bandleader Adam Rudolph. Adam grew up around the members of The Art Ensemble on the South Side of Chicago. Who knew?!
Deep Focus is Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday mornings it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #AdamRudolph #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #JazzInterview #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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What is the Art Ensemble of Chicago? Are they a band or are they an omen, a signpost marking a new direction down an unexplored road. Are those stage costumes or is that battle gear? What are they seeing when they start their concerts silently facing east? What is this language that they communicate in? What are they saying to one other? What are they saying to ME? These questions gripped Daniel Sadownick when he was a young, aspiring musician from the Bronx trying to make it in Manhattan. He has since become one of the most accomplished percussionists in both the Jazz and pop music worlds but he has never forgotten those questions. In fact, he has found some answers and he shares them with host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday night on Jazz Alternatives. We also have some magic from the WKCR archives. Deep Focus airs Mondays 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #DanielSadownick #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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What is the Art Ensemble of Chicago? Are they a band or are they an omen, a signpost marking a new direction down an unexplored road? Are those stage costumes or is that battle gear? What are they seeing when they start their concerts silently facing east? What is this language that they communicate in? What are they saying to one other? What are they saying to ME? These questions gripped Daniel Sadownick when he was a young, aspiring musician from the Bronx trying to make it in Manhattan. He has since become one of the most accomplished percussionists in both the Jazz and pop music worlds but he has never forgotten those questions. In fact, he has found some answers and he shares them with host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday night on Jazz Alternatives. We also have some magic from the WKCR archives. Deep Focus is Mondays 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #DanielSadownick #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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What is the Art Ensemble of Chicago? Are they a band or are they an omen, a signpost marking a new direction down an unexplored road? Are those stage costumes or is that battle gear? What are they seeing when they start their concerts silently facing east? What is this language that they communicate in? What are they saying to one other? What are they saying to ME? These questions gripped Daniel Sadownick when he was a young, aspiring musician from the Bronx trying to make it in Manhattan. He has since become one of the most accomplished percussionists in both the Jazz and pop music worlds but he has never forgotten those questions. In fact, he has found some answers and he shares them with host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday night on Jazz Alternatives. We also have some magic from the WKCR archives. Deep Focus is Mondays 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #DanielSadownick #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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"You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question." Jiddu Krishnamurti
"My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting." Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon. Dir. Robert Clouse. Golden Harvest, 1973.
So what is the method when there is no method? Drummer Reggie Sylvester found an answer to that question as a member of guitarist Bern Nix's last group. In this episode of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2017 (shortly after the death of Nix), Reggie shares the music and the singular way of discovery that Bern Nix developed.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #ReggieSylvester #BernNix #JazzInterview #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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"You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question." Jiddu Krishnamurti
"My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting." Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon. Dir. Robert Clouse. Golden Harvest, 1973.
So what is the method when there is no method? Drummer Reggie Sylvester found an answer to that question as a member of guitarist Bern Nix's last group. In this episode of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2017 (shortly after the death of Nix), Reggie shares the music and the singular way of discovery that Bern Nix developed.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #ReggieSylvester #BernNix #JazzInterview #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
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"You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question." Jiddu Krishnamurti
"My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting." Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon. Dir. Robert Clouse. Golden Harvest, 1973.
So what is the method when there is no method? Drummer Reggie Sylvester found an answer to that question as a member of guitarist Bern Nix's last group. In this episode of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2017 (shortly after the death of Nix), Reggie shares the music and the singular way of discovery that Bern Nix developed.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #ReggieSylvester #BernNix #JazzInterview #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Bern Nix by Peter Gannushkin CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Seventies prog: bloated arena rock or informed, impassioned, challenging music featuring blazing chops and mind blowing technical innovation? We say, why "or"? Why not "and"? And what do we find when we listen to Keith Emerson closely with an accomplished Jazzer like Brian Charette?
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #KeithEmerson #EmersonLakeandPalmer #Prog
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Seventies prog: bloated arena rock or informed, impassioned, challenging music featuring blazing chops and mind blowing technical innovation? We say, why "or"? Why not "and"? And what do we find when we listen to Keith Emerson closely with an accomplished Jazzer like Brian Charette?
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #KeithEmerson #EmersonLakeandPalmer #Prog
Photo credit: Seventies prog: bloated arena rock or informed, impassioned, challenging music featuring blazing chops and mind blowing technical innovation? We say, why "or"? Why not "and"? And what do we find when we listen to Keith Emerson closely with an accomplished Jazzer like Brian Charette? Find out Monday (11/1) on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus, 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, available on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #KeithEmerson #EmersonLakeandPalmer #Prog
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Seventies prog: bloated arena rock or informed, impassioned, challenging music featuring blazing chops and mind blowing technical innovation? We say, why "or"? Why not "and"? And what do we find when we listen to Keith Emerson closely with an accomplished Jazzer like Brian Charette?
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #KeithEmerson #EmersonLakeandPalmer #Prog
Photo credit: Keith_Emerson_&_Moog_15May10 by Mari Kawaguchi CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.jpeg
What will be revealed on Deep Focus this Monday night? In every episode of Deep Focus, we discover new facets of (at least) 2 artists: our guest lends insight about the subject but the guest also inevitably reveals new sides of him or herself. So what do we get when we listen to Don Pullen's music with a fellow conceptualist like William Hooker? Host Mitch Goldman says, "I could tell you but wouldn't you rather hear it for yourself?" It's on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DonPullen #WilliamHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman
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What will be revealed on Deep Focus this Monday night? In every episode of Deep Focus, we discover new facets of (at least) 2 artists: our guest lends insight about the subject but the guest also inevitably reveals new sides of him or herself. So what do we get when we listen to Don Pullen's music with a fellow conceptualist like William Hooker? Host Mitch Goldman says, "I could tell you but wouldn't you rather hear it for yourself?" It's on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DonPullen #WilliamHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman
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What will be revealed on this Deep Focus? In every episode of Deep Focus, we discover new facets of (at least) 2 artists: our guest lends insight about the subject but the guest also inevitably reveals new sides of him or herself. So what do we get when we listen to Don Pullen's music with a fellow conceptualist like William Hooker? Host Mitch Goldman says, "I could tell you but wouldn't you rather hear it for yourself?" It's on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DonPullen #WilliamHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman
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It's a special Thelonious Monk birthday week Deep Focus from 2016 with host Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist Vijay Iyer. Of Monk, Vijay Iyer has said, "I think about Thelonious Monk every day. He's my biggest influence by far.” Insights and exquisitely rare recordings will abound.
Sunday, October 10, 2021, in addition to being Monk's 104th birthday anniversary, is also the 80th anniversary of WKCR being granted its FM broadcast license by the FCC. Come on now, people: stand up and cheer!
WKCR #DeepFocus #TheloniousMonk #VijayIyer #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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It's a special Thelonious Monk birthday week Deep Focus from 2016 with host Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist Vijay Iyer. Of Monk, Vijay Iyer has said, "I think about Thelonious Monk every day. He's my biggest influence by far.” Insights and exquisitely rare recordings will abound.
Sunday October 10, 2021 in addition to being Monk's 104th birthday anniversary, is also the 80th anniversary of WKCR being granted its FM broadcast license by the FCC. Come on now, people: stand up and cheer!
WKCR #DeepFocus #TheloniousMonk #VijayIyer #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Roy Campbell was not just a master student of the entire history of the music but he knew Woody Shaw personally. Stunning tales of Ornette Coleman, Lee Morgan and others emerge in this remarkable program, recorded not 2 months before Roy's tragic early passing.
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Wanna talk trumpet? Roy Campbell spills the beans in this one. The inside stories on Woody Shaw I expected, but Lee Morgan?! Miles Davis?! Ornette Coleman?! Roy Campbell walked the walk and on this show he talks the talk.
I am so glad I got him in the chair and that I can share this with you. Not 2 months after this recording, we got the terrible news that he had died of heart disease at age 61. Roy, you left us way too soon. Photo credit: Woody_Shaw by Tom Marcello - permission by Creative Commons
Roy Campbell was not just a master student of the entire history of the music but he knew Woody Shaw personally. Stunning tales of Ornette Coleman, Lee Morgan and others emerge in this remarkable program, recorded not 2 months before Roy's tragic early passing.
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivalled radio programming or his grammy-winning record producing and studio work, all of which have been deservingly vaunted in his obituaries. His greatest achievement was manifesting a radio station that could be a place for the kind of programming that he saw a need for. From the time I was a little kid I loved listening to the radio. When I became a teen, I started really paying attention to WKCR. By the time I started programming here in 1985, I had been a dedicated fan of the station for the better part of a decade. I kinda figured there was probably a station like WKCR in every major city, right? Wrong. Forty years later, having traveled all over the surface of the earth, often in relation to my work in media, I can tell you that there is nothing remotely like WKCR anywhere. There are other wonderful radio stations but none do what WKCR does. I have never heard this kind of immersion in the community of musicians and fans, this level of scholarship, this unwavering commitment to reaching far beyond the level of middle-brow entertainment to unapologetically reach for what the artistry of the music demands. Those 40-minute mic breaks? That's what I'm talking about. Well, that and the birthday broadcasts, and the memorial broadcasts, and the festivals and, and, and, ...That's Phil.
The WKCR that we know is a figment of Phil Schaap's imagination. Many have contributed-- and I am proud to count myself among them-- but I don't believe that any of us would have started down this particular path without Phil.
And let me tell you: that kind of thing doesn't just happen by itself. The degree and variety of resources that it takes to keep a radio station and a format going for 50 years are astounding. The tide of opposition (or just apathy) can be truly paralyzing. Somehow, this notion emerged from Phil's brain and has captivated enough of us long enough to keep this juggernaut barreling on all this time. Did I know I would still be doing my college radio show a third of a century later? Of course not but I am so very grateful that Phil and all the other programmers who came before me did what they did to allow it to happen. I cannot tell you how much richer my life is because of it. One of the principal among those predecessors was certainly Andy Caploe. When I was in high school, Andy hosted the slot that I do now. His show was more of a model for the way I started out doing the show than anything was. Okay, the truth is that I tried to copy Andy. Tried and failed. Many times. But eventually I came up with my own concept and by then Andy and I were great friends, as we are to this day. What a pleasure it was to welcome Andy to the studio to do Deep Focus with me in 2018. And our topic? Ed Blackwell. It couldn't have been anything other than a lovefest and the WKCR archives yielded magic. Best of all, who was in the station that night but Phil Schaap. Phil and Andy hadn't seen one another in quite a few years and it was indeed a memorable reunion. I'm just glad I got to be there for it. Tune in Monday from 6pm to 9pm to hear for yourself. If you miss it, catich it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ What's that you say? You want a story about Phil's ridiculously terrifying memory? Okay. On March 16, 1987 I'm sitting in Tom's on 112th St. with my friend and radio comrade from another station, Jonathan Fiur. Phil walks in and I point him out to Jon. Jon has always wanted to meet Phil so of course I introduce them. As it happens, it's Jon's birthday and Phil is happy to wish Jon a happy one. On March 16, 1989-- a full TWO YEARS LATER!-- I see Phil at the station: Phil: "...and don't forget to wish Jon a happy birthday for me." Me: "Jon who?" Phil: "I don't know. You didn't tell me his last name." It took me a week to remember what he was talking about. Funny enough, I have never forgotten Jonathan Fiur's birthday since.
Phil, rather than just saying "Thank you," I'll say that the path you have charted for us is clear. I don't imagine I will get as far down that road as you have but it means the world to me to have had you to lead the way.
WKCR #PhilSchaap #AndyCaploe #EdBlackwell #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Earle Warren and Phil Schaap by Nancy Miller Elliott/New York Public Library.
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivalled radio programming or his grammy-winning record producing and studio work, all of which have been deservingly vaunted in his obituaries. His greatest achievement was manifesting a radio station that could be a place for the kind of programming that he saw a need for. From the time I was a little kid I loved listening to the radio. When I became a teen, I started really paying attention to WKCR. By the time I started programming here in 1985, I had been a dedicated fan of the station for the better part of a decade. I kinda figured there was probably a station like WKCR in every major city, right? Wrong. Forty years later, having traveled all over the surface of the earth, often in relation to my work in media, I can tell you that there is nothing remotely like WKCR anywhere. There are other wonderful radio stations but none do what WKCR does. I have never heard this kind of immersion in the community of musicians and fans, this level of scholarship, this unwavering commitment to reaching far beyond the level of middle-brow entertainment to unapologetically reach for what the artistry of the music demands. Those 40-minute mic breaks? That's what I'm talking about. Well, that and the birthday broadcasts, and the memorial broadcasts, and the festivals and, and, and, ...That's Phil.
The WKCR that we know is a figment of Phil Schaap's imagination. Many have contributed-- and I am proud to count myself among them-- but I don't believe that any of us would have started down this particular path without Phil.
And let me tell you: that kind of thing doesn't just happen by itself. The degree and variety of resources that it takes to keep a radio station and a format going for 50 years are astounding. The tide of opposition (or just apathy) can be truly paralyzing. Somehow, this notion emerged from Phil's brain and has captivated enough of us long enough to keep this juggernaut barreling on all this time. Did I know I would still be doing my college radio show a third of a century later? Of course not but I am so very grateful that Phil and all the other programmers who came before me did what they did to allow it to happen. I cannot tell you how much richer my life is because of it. One of the principal among those predecessors was certainly Andy Caploe. When I was in high school, Andy hosted the slot that I do now. His show was more of a model for the way I started out doing the show than anything was. Okay, the truth is that I tried to copy Andy. Tried and failed. Many times. But eventually I came up with my own concept and by then Andy and I were great friends, as we are to this day. What a pleasure it was to welcome Andy to the studio to do Deep Focus with me in 2018. And our topic? Ed Blackwell. It couldn't have been anything other than a lovefest and the WKCR archives yielded magic. Best of all, who was in the station that night but Phil Schaap. Phil and Andy hadn't seen one another in quite a few years and it was indeed a memorable reunion. I'm just glad I got to be there for it. Tune in Monday from 6pm to 9pm to hear for yourself. If you miss it, catich it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ What's that you say? You want a story about Phil's ridiculously terrifying memory? Okay. On March 16, 1987 I'm sitting in Tom's on 112th St. with my friend and radio comrade from another station, Jonathan Fiur. Phil walks in and I point him out to Jon. Jon has always wanted to meet Phil so of course I introduce them. As it happens, it's Jon's birthday and Phil is happy to wish Jon a happy one. On March 16, 1989-- a full TWO YEARS LATER!-- I see Phil at the station: Phil: "...and don't forget to wish Jon a happy birthday for me." Me: "Jon who?" Phil: "I don't know. You didn't tell me his last name." It took me a week to remember what he was talking about. Funny enough, I have never forgotten Jonathan Fiur's birthday since.
Phil, rather than just saying "Thank you," I'll say that the path you have charted for us is clear. I don't imagine I will get as far down that road as you have but it means the world to me to have had you to lead the way.
WKCR #PhilSchaap #AndyCaploe #EdBlackwell #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivalled radio programming or his grammy-winning record producing and studio work, all of which have been deservingly vaunted in his obituaries. His greatest achievement was manifesting a radio station that could be a place for the kind of programming that he saw a need for. From the time I was a little kid I loved listening to the radio. When I became a teen, I started really paying attention to WKCR. By the time I started programming here in 1985, I had been a dedicated fan of the station for the better part of a decade. I kinda figured there was probably a station like WKCR in every major city, right? Wrong. Forty years later, having traveled all over the surface of the earth, often in relation to my work in media, I can tell you that there is nothing remotely like WKCR anywhere. There are other wonderful radio stations but none do what WKCR does. I have never heard this kind of immersion in the community of musicians and fans, this level of scholarship, this unwavering commitment to reaching far beyond the level of middle-brow entertainment to unapologetically reach for what the artistry of the music demands. Those 40-minute mic breaks? That's what I'm talking about. Well, that and the birthday broadcasts, and the memorial broadcasts, and the festivals and, and, and, ...That's Phil.
The WKCR that we know is a figment of Phil Schaap's imagination. Many have contributed-- and I am proud to count myself among them-- but I don't believe that any of us would have started down this particular path without Phil.
And let me tell you: that kind of thing doesn't just happen by itself. The degree and variety of resources that it takes to keep a radio station and a format going for 50 years are astounding. The tide of opposition (or just apathy) can be truly paralyzing. Somehow, this notion emerged from Phil's brain and has captivated enough of us long enough to keep this juggernaut barreling on all this time. Did I know I would still be doing my college radio show a third of a century later? Of course not but I am so very grateful that Phil and all the other programmers who came before me did what they did to allow it to happen. I cannot tell you how much richer my life is because of it. One of the principal among those predecessors was certainly Andy Caploe. When I was in high school, Andy hosted the slot that I do now. His show was more of a model for the way I started out doing the show than anything was. Okay, the truth is that I tried to copy Andy. Tried and failed. Many times. But eventually I came up with my own concept and by then Andy and I were great friends, as we are to this day. What a pleasure it was to welcome Andy to the studio to do Deep Focus with me in 2018. And our topic? Ed Blackwell. It couldn't have been anything other than a lovefest and the WKCR archives yielded magic. Best of all, who was in the station that night but Phil Schaap. Phil and Andy hadn't seen one another in quite a few years and it was indeed a memorable reunion. I'm just glad I got to be there for it. Tune in Monday from 6pm to 9pm to hear for yourself. If you miss it, catich it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ What's that you say? You want a story about Phil's ridiculously terrifying memory? Okay. On March 16, 1987 I'm sitting in Tom's on 112th St. with my friend and radio comrade from another station, Jonathan Fiur. Phil walks in and I point him out to Jon. Jon has always wanted to meet Phil so of course I introduce them. As it happens, it's Jon's birthday and Phil is happy to wish Jon a happy one. On March 16, 1989-- a full TWO YEARS LATER!-- I see Phil at the station: Phil: "...and don't forget to wish Jon a happy birthday for me." Me: "Jon who?" Phil: "I don't know. You didn't tell me his last name." It took me a week to remember what he was talking about. Funny enough, I have never forgotten Jonathan Fiur's birthday since.
Phil, rather than just saying "Thank you," I'll say that the path you have charted for us is clear. I don't imagine I will get as far down that road as you have but it means the world to me to have had you to lead the way.
WKCR #PhilSchaap #AndyCaploe #EdBlackwell #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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"And Senator: can you imagine being able to smell a flower - on the planet Mars?" Strangers on a Train, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, performance by Robert Walker, Warner Bros., 1951.
"The Decoding Society was a band but it was also a way of thinking about things. Shannon would always say, 'It ain't what you think it is. What you think it is? It ain't that.'" Vernon Reid, Deep Focus with host Mitch Goldman, WKCR, New York, Dec.2, 2013
What if you saw a group of people who appeared to be talking amongst themselves at great distance and you didn't know that they had just invented the cel phone? You might think they were crazy or, if you're very perceptive, you still might be completely baffled, entranced, just utterly gobsmacked. Now, if invited, would you join the conversation?
Vernon Reid's answer to that question was yes. And that response granted him access to places far beyond the bounds of the known universe. Join us for this memorial broadcast for Ronald Shannon Jackson from 2013, the last in a series of 4 broadcasts. Our money-back guarantee: all shall be revealed. Now that we have nearly 200 episodes posted, many of you have asked for a way to search through old episodes. Your request has been answered. You'll find a search bar at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #VernonReid #RonaldShannonJackson #LivingColour #JazzInterview #JazzRadio
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"And Senator: can you imagine being able to smell a flower - on the planet Mars?" Strangers on a Train, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, performance by Robert Walker, Warner Bros., 1951.
"The Decoding Society was a band but it was also a way of thinking about things. Shannon would always say, 'It ain't what you think it is. What you think it is? It ain't that.'" Vernon Reid, Deep Focus with host Mitch Goldman, WKCR, New York, Dec. 2, 2013
What if you saw a group of people who appeared to be talking amongst themselves at great distance and you didn't know that they had just invented the cel phone? You might think they were crazy or, if you're very perceptive, you still might be completely baffled, entranced, just utterly gobsmacked. Now, if invited, would you join the conversation?
Vernon Reid's answer to that question was yes. And that response granted him access to places far beyond the bounds of the known universe. Join us for this memorial broadcast for Ronald Shannon Jackson from 2013, the last in a series of 4 broadcasts. Our money-back guarantee: all shall be revealed. Now that we have nearly 200 episodes posted, many of you have asked for a way to search through old episodes. Your request has been answered. You'll find a search bar at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #VernonReid #RonaldShannonJackson #LivingColour #JazzInterview #JazzRadio
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"And Senator: can you imagine being able to smell a flower - on the planet Mars?" Strangers on a Train, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, performance by Robert Walker, Warner Bros., 1951.
"The Decoding Society was a band but it was also a way of thinking about things. Shannon would always say, 'It ain't what you think it is. What you think it is? It ain't that.'" Vernon Reid, Deep Focus with host Mitch Goldman, WKCR, New York, Dec.2, 2013
What if you saw a group of people who appeared to be talking amongst themselves at great distance and you didn't know that they had just invented the cel phone? You might think they were crazy or, if you're very perceptive, you still might be completely baffled, entranced, just utterly gobsmacked. Now, if invited, would you join the conversation?
Vernon Reid's answer to that question was yes. And that response granted him access to places far beyond the bounds of the known universe. Join us for this memorial broadcast for Ronald Shannon Jackson from 2013, the last in a series of 4 broadcasts. Our money-back guarantee: all shall be revealed. Now that we have nearly 200 episodes posted, many of you have asked for a way to search through old episodes. Your request has been answered. You'll find a search bar at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #VernonReid #RonaldShannonJackson #LivingColour #JazzInterview #JazzRadio
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Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to it: your background, your proclivities, your vocabulary. And if you didn't have it to bring, the music wasn't going to make it off the stage. Jack DeSalvo brought a musical lexicon to the Decoding Society that was unmatched. When Shannon expressed a mood-- on drums or flute or schalmei or in a composition-- Jack was able to flesh it out in a completely distinct way. Entire new pathways were charted. Mitch Goldman presents the third installment of his memorial broadcasts for Ronald Shannon Jackson from 2013, with guest Jack DeSalvo. This week's show features guest cameos of Prince(!), Iron Maiden(!) Ethan Singer(!), a stolen vanload of gear(!) and that guy at the hotel in the south of France(!). I tell you, this one is not to be missed.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RonaldShannonJackson #JackDeSalvo #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #DecodingSociety
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Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to it: your background, your proclivities, your vocabulary. And if you didn't have it to bring, the music wasn't going to make it off the stage. Jack DeSalvo brought a musical lexicon to the Decoding Society that was unmatched. When Shannon expressed a mood-- on drums or flute or schalmei or in a composition-- Jack was able to flesh it out in a completely distinct way. Entire new pathways were charted. Mitch Goldman presents the third installment of his memorial broadcasts for Ronald Shannon Jackson from 2013, with guest Jack DeSalvo. This week's show features guest cameos of Prince(!), Iron Maiden(!) Ethan Singer(!), a stolen vanload of gear(!) and that guy at the hotel in the south of France(!). I tell you, this one is not to be missed.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RonaldShannonJackson #JackDeSalvo #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #DecodingSociety
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Part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013. Melvin Gibbs opens up about the genesis of the Decoding Society, including cameos of Ornette Coleman, Gil Evans, the Bad Brains and many more. Also featuring an ultra-rare live recording of the Encryption Trio (Jackson, Reid, Gibbs). Mind expansion.
Monday night from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RonaldShannonJackson #DecodingSociety #MelvinGibbs #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #OrnetteColeman #BernNix #GilEvans #EncryptionTrio
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Part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013. Melvin Gibbs opens up about the genesis of the Decoding Society, including cameos of Ornette Coleman, Gil Evans, the Bad Brains and many more. Also featuring a very rare live recording of the Encryption Trio. Mind expansion.
Monday night from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. T
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RonaldShannonJackson #DecodingSociety #MelvinGibbs #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #OrnetteColeman #BernNix #GilEvans #EncryptionTrio
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Part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013 (check out "2013.10.21 Eric Person and Roger Cramer on Ronald Shannon Jackson" for part 1). Melvin Gibbs opens up about the genesis of the Decoding Society, including cameos of Ornette Coleman, Gil Evans, the Bad Brains and many more. Also featuring a live recording of the Decoding Society at the height of its powers from London's Roundhouse. Mind expansion.
Monday night from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RonaldShannonJackson #DecodingSociety #MelvinGibbs #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #OrnetteColeman #BernNix #GilEvans #LondonRoundhouse #Roundhouse
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"He sucked all the air out of the room and turned it back into this wonderful... fragrance." That's Ronald Shannon Jackson talking about Albert Ayler, his spiritual avatar. Leave aside the unrivaled, prodigious drumming; the utterly singular style of bandleading; the absolutely distinctive composing. Like Ayler before him, Ronald Shannon Jackson's music brought a spiritual force. It could change the way the world looked-- yes, the way it smelled and tasted and felt. Shannon Jackson died on Saturday October 19, 2013. Two days later WKCR presented a memorial broadcast that included 2 of his closest friends and collaborators: saxophonist/flutist Eric Person and manager Roger Cramer, with nearly unheard rarities from the WKCR archives. This episode of Deep Focus is from the first of 4 consecutive broadcasts on Ronald Shannon Jackson.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RonaldShannonJackson #EricPerson #RogerCramer #AlbertAyler #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #OrnetteColeman
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"He sucked all the air out of the room and turned it back into this wonderful... fragrance." That's Ronald Shannon Jackson talking about Albert Ayler, his spiritual avatar. Leave aside the unrivaled, prodigious drumming; the utterly singular style of bandleading; the absolutely distinctive composing. Like Ayler before him, Ronald Shannon Jackson's music brought a spiritual force. It could change the way the world looked-- yes, the way it smelled and tasted and felt. Shannon Jackson died on Saturday October 19, 2013. Two days later WKCR presented a memorial broadcast that included 2 of his closest friends and collaborators: saxophonist/flutist Eric Person and manager Roger Cramer. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm EDT on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus, WKCR rebroadcasts this program with nearly unheard rarities from the WKCR archives. This episode of Deep Focus is the first of 4 consecutive broadcasts on Ronald Shannon Jackson. Tuesday morning the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RonaldShannonJackson #EricPerson #RogerCramer #AlbertAyler #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #OrnetteColeman
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The music of hunger: how much soul can you squeeze out of a string and a piece of wood or a hunk of metal? It’s one of the great questions of the music and no one has given a more satisfying answer than Nana Vasconcelos, the brilliant Brazilian percussionist. What a privilege to have bassist Henry Schroy and Brazilian singer/songwriter Negro Leo put unheard recordings of Nana in Deep Focus on Nana's birthday anniversary.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #NanaVasconcelos #NegroLeo #HenrySchroy #BrasilianMusic #Berimbau
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The music of hunger: how much soul can you squeeze out of a string and a piece of wood or a hunk of metal? It’s one of the great questions of the music and no one has given a more satisfying answer than Nana Vasconcelos, the brilliant Brazilian percussionist. What a privilege to have bassist Henry Schroy and Brazilian singer/songwriter Negro Leo put unheard recordings of Nana in Deep Focus on Nana's birthday anniversary.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #NanaVasconcelos #NegroLeo #HenrySchroy #BrasilianMusic #Berimbau
Photo credit: Nana_Vasconcelos_-_Portrait_by_Gert_Chesi Gert Chesi, CC BY-SA 4.0
The music of hunger: how much soul can you squeeze out of a string and a piece of wood or a hunk of metal? It’s one of the great questions of the music and no one has given a more satisfying answer than Nana Vasconcelos, the brilliant Brazilian percussionist. What a privilege to have bassist Henry Schroy and Brazilian singer/songwriter Negro Leo put unheard recordings of Nana in Deep Focus on Nana's birthday anniversary.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #NanaVasconcelos #NegroLeo #HenrySchroy #BrasilianMusic #Berimbau
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How is it possible for the hitting of a drum to convey a sense of awe? A feeling of absolute splendor? A state of moral conviction? An awareness of human possibility, of self-liberation? Plenty of people play drums but few inspire these feelings as Elvin Jones does. And few have made as close a study of Elvin as fellow drummer/conceptualist William Hooker.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #ElvinJones #Coltrane #JohnColtrane #JazzInterview #JazzRadio
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How is it possible for the hitting of a drum to convey a sense of awe? A feeling of absolute splendor? A state of moral conviction? An awareness of human possibility, of self-liberation? Plenty of people play drums but few inspire these feelings as Elvin Jones does. And few have made as close a study of Elvin as fellow drummer/conceptualist William Hooker.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #ElvinJones #Coltrane #JohnColtrane #JazzInterview #JazzRadio
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How is it possible for the hitting of a drum to convey a sense of awe? A feeling of absolute splendor? A state of moral conviction? An awareness of human possibility, of self-liberation? Plenty of people play drums but few inspire these feelings as Elvin Jones does. And few have made as close a study of Elvin as fellow drummer/conceptualist William Hooker.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #ElvinJones #Coltrane #JohnColtrane #JazzInterview #JazzRadio
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When musicians talk about their "influences," it's not always about a harmonic or rhythmic choice that another musician made. Sometimes it's their life choices, the stories they tell and the way they tell them. This is the bond between bassist Jack Bruce and our guest on this Deep Focus from 2014, guitarist Vernon Reid.
Sure, as a member of Cream, Jack Bruce was one of the biggest rock stars of all time. Cream practically invented arena rock and it put Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton in the pantheon. But the classically-trained Jack Bruce wasn't content to ride his celebrity to classic rock comfort. He proved to be a seeker who spent the next 50 years smashing musical boundaries. It's thanks to him that many of the doors that the guests of Deep Focus wander through are open.
One of Jack Bruce's last great projects was the band Spectrum Road with Reid, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana. Spectrum Road was a tribute to Tony Williams' LIfetime, a band that, 40 years earlier with Bruce as a member, created an entire new genre of musical collaboration. Vernon Reid, in his band Living Colour, as well as countless other groups, collaborations, film soundtracks and multi-media work, frolics joyously in it.
Jack Bruce died October 25, 2014. Three weeks later, Vernon Reid joined us on Deep Focus to remember his great friend and inspiration.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JackBruce #VernonReid #Cream #LivingColour #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
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When musicians talk about their "influences," it's not always about a harmonic or rhythmic choice that another musician made. Sometimes it's their life choices, the stories they tell and the way they tell them. This is the bond between bassist Jack Bruce and our guest on this Deep Focus from 2014, guitarist Vernon Reid.
Sure, as a member of Cream, Jack Bruce was one of the biggest rock stars of all time. Cream practically invented arena rock and it put Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton in the pantheon. But the classically-trained Jack Bruce wasn't content to ride his celebrity to classic rock comfort. He proved to be a seeker who spent the next 50 years smashing musical boundaries. It's thanks to him that many of the doors that the guests of Deep Focus wander through are open.
One of Jack Bruce's last great projects was the band Spectrum Road with Reid, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana. Spectrum Road was a tribute to Tony Williams' LIfetime, a band that, 40 years earlier with Bruce as a member, created an entire new genre of musical collaboration. Vernon Reid, in his band Living Colour, as well as countless other groups, collaborations, film soundtracks and multi-media work, frolics joyously in it.
Jack Bruce died October 25, 2014. Three weeks later, Vernon Reid joined us on Deep Focus to remember his great friend and inspiration.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JackBruce #VernonReid #Cream #LivingColour #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
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When musicians talk about their "influences," it's not always about a harmonic or rhythmic choice that another musician made. Sometimes it's their life choices, the stories they tell and the way they tell them. This is the bond between bassist Jack Bruce and our guest on this Deep Focus from 2014, guitarist Vernon Reid.
Sure, as a member of Cream, Jack Bruce was one of the biggest rock stars of all time. Cream practically invented arena rock and it put Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton in the pantheon. But the classically-trained Jack Bruce wasn't content to ride his celebrity to classic rock comfort. He proved to be a seeker who spent the next 50 years smashing musical boundaries. It's thanks to him that many of the doors that the guests of Deep Focus wander through are open.
One of Jack Bruce's last great projects was the band Spectrum Road with Reid, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana. Spectrum Road was a tribute to Tony Williams' LIfetime, a band that, 40 years earlier with Bruce as a member, created an entire new genre of musical collaboration. Vernon Reid, in his band Living Colour, as well as countless other groups, collaborations, film soundtracks and multi-media work, frolics joyously in it.
Jack Bruce died October 25, 2014. Three weeks later, Vernon Reid joined us on Deep Focus to remember his great friend and inspiration.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JackBruce #VernonReid #Cream #LivingColour #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
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Since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, his star just seems to continue to brighten. Not only do his musical ideas grow in relevance but his Afro-Futuristic vision and even his DIY business ethos gain currency. If only we knew someone who was an active participant in his bands in the Seventies and Eighties, maybe even someone who traveled to FESTAC 1977 in Nigeria with Sun Ra and has first-hand stories of Fela Kuti and the truth of the Space Chord. Imagine what we might discover! Hmmm...
Yes, trombonist/bandleader Craig Harris joins Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra from 2015, featuring previously unheard live solar flares from the WKCR archives.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #craigharris #SunRa #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #spaceistheplace
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Since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, his star just seems to continue to brighten. Not only do his musical ideas grow in relevance but his Afro-Futuristic vision and even his DIY business ethos gain currency. If only we knew someone who was an active participant in his bands in the Seventies and Eighties, maybe even someone who traveled to FESTAC 1977 in Nigeria with Sun Ra and has first-hand stories of Fela Kuti and the truth of the Space Chord. Imagine what we might discover! Hmmm...
Yes, trombonist/bandleader Craig Harris joins Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra from 2015, featuring previously unheard live solar flares from the WKCR archives.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #craigharris #SunRa #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #spaceistheplace
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Since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, his star just seems to continue to brighten. Not only do his musical ideas grow in relevance but his Afro-Futuristic vision and even his DIY business ethos gain currency. If only we knew someone who was an active participant in his bands in the Seventies and Eighties, maybe even someone who traveled to FESTAC 1977 in Nigeria with Sun Ra and has first-hand stories of Fela Kuti and the truth of the Space Chord. Imagine what we might discover! Hmmm...
Yes, trombonist/bandleader Craig Harris joins Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra from 2015, featuring previously unheard live solar flares from the WKCR archives.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #craigharris #SunRa #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #spaceistheplace
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What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have curiosity, a willingness to engage with people, a giving heart, who is going to want to hear what you have to say? Through sixty years of fusing traditions with experimentation, that was always the message from Roswell Rudd and his trombone. Roswell passed away in December 2017 at the age of 82. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein, who was one of Roswell’s musical partners, takes this message to heart.
We’ve got music like you’ve never heard (because I promise you’ve never heard this!).
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RoswellRudd #StevenBernstein #SexMob #MTO #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have curiosity, a willingness to engage with people, a giving heart, who is going to want to hear what you have to say? Through sixty years of fusing traditions with experimentation, that was always the message from Roswell Rudd and his trombone. Roswell passed away in December 2017 at the age of 82. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein, who was one of Roswell’s musical partners, takes this message to heart.
We’ve got music like you’ve never heard (because I promise you’ve never heard this!).
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RoswellRudd #StevenBernstein #SexMob #MTO #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have curiosity, a willingness to engage with people, a giving heart, who is going to want to hear what you have to say? Through sixty years of fusing traditions with experimentation, that was always the message from Roswell Rudd and his trombone. Roswell passed away in December 2017 at the age of 82. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein, who was one of Roswell’s musical partners, takes this message to heart.
We’ve got music like you’ve never heard (because I promise you’ve never heard this!).
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RoswellRudd #StevenBernstein #SexMob #MTO #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Sometimes you have to take all the furniture out of the room to see what it really looks like and to decide what belongs in there. Pianist Andrew Hill did that for our music (most memorably on a series of outstanding Blue Note recordings in the 1960's) and then he put it back together in a whole new way. It's still the same room but it feels fresh and vibrant; the angles are better, you can move around in it more easily. He also opened many new doors leading out of that room and entire generations of younger musicians have enthusiastically moved through them.
Vijay Iyer is certainly one of them. He could never be called a Hill clone but he learned many lessons from this imaginative bandleader. It's readily apparent today in the many ensembles that he leads and his even more numerous collaborations and multimedia work. He talks about it with clarity and zeal with host Mitch Goldman in this Deep Focus from 2013.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #AndrewHill #VijayIyer #JazzRadio #jazzpodcast
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Sometimes you have to take all the furniture out of the room to see what it really looks like and to decide what belongs in there. Pianist Andrew Hill did that for our music (most memorably on a series of outstanding Blue Note recordings in the 1960's) and then he put it back together in a whole new way. It's still the same room but it feels fresh and vibrant; the angles are better, you can move around in it more easily. He also opened many new doors leading out of that room and entire generations of younger musicians have enthusiastically moved through them.
Vijay Iyer is certainly one of them. He could never be called a Hill clone but he learned many lessons from this imaginative bandleader. It's readily apparent today in the many ensembles that he leads and his even more numerous collaborations and multimedia work. He talks about it with clarity and zeal with host Mitch Goldman in this Deep Focus from 2013.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #AndrewHill #VijayIyer #JazzRadio #jazzpodcast
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Sometimes you have to take all the furniture out of the room to see what it really looks like and to decide what belongs in there. Pianist Andrew Hill did that for our music (most memorably on a series of outstanding Blue Note recordings in the 1960's) and then he put it back together in a whole new way. It's still the same room but it feels fresh and vibrant; the angles are better, you can move around in it more easily. He also opened many new doors leading out of that room and entire generations of younger musicians have enthusiastically moved through them.
Vijay Iyer is certainly one of them. He could never be called a Hill clone but he learned many lessons from this imaginative bandleader. It's readily apparent today in the many ensembles that he leads and his even more numerous collaborations and multimedia work. He talks about it with clarity and zeal with host Mitch Goldman in this Deep Focus from 2013.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #AndrewHill #VijayIyer #JazzRadio #jazzpodcast
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Sometimes there’s a fantastic narrative behind these Deep Focus programs and sometimes we are simply reveling in glorious, never-before-heard recordings of history’s greatest musicians with a brilliant scholar of the music to lead us through it. And, by golly, that’s good enough.
Join host Mitch Goldman and his guest, bandleader Eric Anthony Person for a Deep Focus on John Coltrane and Rahsaan Roland Kirk with music from the WKCR archives. Mitch says, “If you have heard any of these recordings before, I’ll eat my hat!”
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #EricPerson #RahsaanRolandKirk #JohnColtrane #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #jazzinterview #jazzradio #jazzpodcast
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Sometimes there’s a fantastic narrative behind these Deep Focus programs and sometimes we are simply reveling in glorious, never-before-heard recordings of history’s greatest musicians with a brilliant scholar of the music to lead us through it. And, by golly, that’s good enough.
Join host Mitch Goldman and his guest, bandleader Eric Anthony Person for a Deep Focus on the Art Ensemble of Chicago with music from the WKCR archives. Mitch says, “If you have heard any of these recordings before, I’ll eat my hat!”
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #EricPerson #RahsaanRolandKirk #JohnColtrane #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #jazzinterview #jazzradio #jazzpodcast
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Sometimes there’s a fantastic narrative behind these Deep Focus programs and sometimes we are simply reveling in glorious, never-before-heard recordings of history’s greatest musicians with a brilliant scholar of the music to lead us through it. And, by golly, that’s good enough.
Join host Mitch Goldman and his guest, bandleader Eric Anthony Person for a Deep Focus on the Art Ensemble of Chicago with music from the WKCR archives. Mitch says, “If you have heard any of these recordings before, I’ll eat my hat!”
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #EricPerson #RahsaanRolandKirk #JohnColtrane #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #jazzinterview #jazzradio #jazzpodcast
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This week's show is a Deep Focus unlike any other. It's actually more like one of those sports movies in which The Kid gets to go into the championship game with his big league hero. The hero, in this case, is none other than Jaki Byard (the subject of Deep Focus episodes with both Graham Haynes and with Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran) and the part of The Kid is played by drummer Roy Weinberger.
Jaki Byard booked a date at SUNY-Binghamton in 1981 and asked the students to provide half of a band for him to play with. The students didn't have to think too hard about whom to call; Roy and his brother, alto saxophonist Bob Weinberger, were pretty much the heaviest cats in town. Was being big fish in that little pond enough to get them through the raging river of a performance with Jaki Byard? Tune in to find out. We have documentary evidence! This one is truly fascinating.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JakiByard #RoyWeinberger #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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This week's show is a Deep Focus unlike any other. It's actually more like one of those sports movies in which The Kid gets to go into the championship game with his big league hero. The hero, in this case, is none other than Jaki Byard (the subject of Deep Focus episodes with both Graham Haynes and with Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran) and the part of The Kid is played by drummer Roy Weinberger.
Jaki Byard booked a date at SUNY-Binghamton in 1981 and asked the students to provide half of a band for him to play with. The students didn't have to think too hard about whom to call; Roy and his brother, alto saxophonist Bob Weinberger, were pretty much the heaviest cats in town. Was being big fish in that little pond enough to get them through the raging river of a performance with Jaki Byard? Tune in to find out. We have documentary evidence! This one is truly fascinating.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JakiByard #RoyWeinberger #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Jaki Byard By Source, Fair use en.wikipedia.org-w-index.php-curid=50315026
This week's show is a Deep Focus unlike any other. It's actually more like one of those sports movies in which The Kid gets to go into the championship game with his big league hero. The hero, in this case, is none other than Jaki Byard (the subject of Deep Focus episodes with both Graham Haynes and with Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran) and the part of The Kid is played by drummer Roy Weinberger.
Jaki Byard booked a date at SUNY-Binghamton in 1981 and asked the students to provide half of a band for him to play with. The students didn't have to think too hard about whom to call; Roy and his brother, alto saxophonist Bob Weinberger, were pretty much the heaviest cats in town. Was being big fish in that little pond enough to get them through the raging river of a performance with Jaki Byard? Tune in to find out. We have documentary evidence! This one is truly fascinating.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JakiByard #RoyWeinberger #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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How many drummers can you name who changed the whole conversation, just with their playing? Like, to the point that they became the North Star for the next generation or two? How many of those were also great bandleaders, and maybe even solid composers? It’s a short list by anybody’s count but one name you are probably already thinking of is Jack DeJohnette.
Drummer Pheeroan Aklaff joins Mitch Goldman in putting DeJohnette in Deep Focus. Mitch, of course, has some dazzling live music from the archives that you’ve probably never heard. DeJohnette's band Special Edition is ripe for rediscovery.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #JackDeJohnette #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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How many drummers can you name who changed the whole conversation, just with their playing? Like, to the point that they became the North Star for the next generation or two? How many of those were also great bandleaders, and maybe even solid composers? It’s a short list by anybody’s count but one name you are probably already thinking of is Jack DeJohnette.
Drummer Pheeroan Aklaff joins Mitch Goldman in putting DeJohnette in Deep Focus. Mitch, of course, has some dazzling live music from the archives that you’ve probably never heard. DeJohnette's band Special Edition is ripe for rediscovery.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #JackDeJohnette #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Roberto Masotti
How many drummers can you name who changed the whole conversation, just with their playing? Like, to the point that they became the North Star for the next generation or two? How many of those were also great bandleaders, and maybe even solid composers? It’s a short list by anybody’s count but one name you are probably already thinking of is Jack DeJohnette.
This Monday, drummer Pheeroan Aklaff joins Mitch Goldman in putting DeJohnette in Deep Focus. Mitch, of course, has some dazzling live music from the archives that you’ve probably never heard. DeJohnette's band Special Edition is ripe for rediscovery.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #JackDeJohnette #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Want a hot-button issue for a Jazz listener? Just mention "electric Miles." If you really want to get them going, talk about the profoundly disruptive years, 1973 to 1975. Some will gush about it-- "visionary," "powerhouse," "mind-bending"-- while others, like Wynton Marsalis, will dismiss Miles at this time as, "...on the bandstand looking like, basically, a buffoon.”
But in neither case does the respondent often look under the hood. How did this band actually work? Who was directing the music's movement? How were they doing it? What was the nature of the conversation that was happening in the music? The truth is that, love it or hate it, few people actually know the answers to these questions.
One exception: Mitch Goldman's guest on this Deep Focus from 2011, cornetist Graham Haynes. Graham was introduced to Miles as a kid. Then, as a 14-year-old, he hung out on Miles' block until Miles invited him in to the band's rehearsals. Graham actually witnessed the creation of this music and, being the far-reaching bandleader that he is as an adult, he talks about the music with rare passion and insight. Plus, y'know, the WKCR archives bring the ruckus.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #GrahamHaynes #MilesDavis #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzRockFusion #JazzPodcast
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Want a hot-button issue for a Jazz listener? Just mention "electric Miles." If you really want to get them going, talk about the profoundly disruptive years, 1973 to 1975. Some will gush about it-- "visionary," "powerhouse," "mind-bending"-- while others, like Wynton Marsalis, will dismiss Miles at this time as, "...on the bandstand looking like, basically, a buffoon.”
But in neither case does the respondent usually look under the hood. How did this band actually work? Who was directing the music's movement? How were they doing it? What was the nature of the conversation that was happening in the music? The truth is that, love it or hate it, few people actually know the answers to these questions.
One exception: Mitch Goldman's guest on this Deep Focus from 2011, cornetist Graham Haynes. Graham was introduced to Miles as a kid. Then, as a 14-year-old, he hung out on Miles' block until Miles invited him in to the band's rehearsals. Graham actually witnessed the creation of this music and, being the far-reaching bandleader that he is as an adult, he talks about the music with rare passion and insight. Plus, y'know, the WKCR archives bring the ruckus.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #GrahamHaynes #MilesDavis #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzRockFusion #JazzPodcast
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On the next Deep Focus, the band that rewrote all the rules, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt. Bassist Oren Bloedow joins host Mitch Goldman, not to listen to the band's narrow studio discography, but to revel in some of the live shows from the early Eighties that made this band one of the world's most notorious dance floor destroyers (and little did those gambolers realize that they were grooving to the trombone skronker from the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group... OR DID THEY?!).
We now have over 150 episodes with more going up every week. Join our thousands of listeners in over 40 countries.
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On the next Deep Focus, the band that rewrote all the rules, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt. Bassist Oren Bloedow joins host Mitch Goldman, not to listen to the band's narrow studio discography, but to revel in some of the live shows from the early Eighties that made this band one of the world's most notorious dance floor destroyers (and little did those gambolers realize that they were grooving to the trombone skronker from the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group... OR DID THEY?!).
We now have over 150 episodes with more going up every week. Join our thousands of listeners in over 40 countries.
Photo credit: courtesy of Hannibal Records
On the next Deep Focus, the band that rewrote all the rules, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt. Bassist Oren Bloedow joins host Mitch Goldman, not to listen to the band's narrow studio discography, but to revel in some of the live shows from the early Eighties that made this band one of the world's most notorious dance floor destroyers (and little did those gambolers realize that they were grooving to the trombone skronker from the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group... OR DID THEY?!).
We now have over 150 episodes with more going up every week. Join our thousands of listeners in over 40 countries.
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People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The way they talk? Is it in their music? Are New York drummers a distinct group? Drummer Ben Perowsky says there’s no doubt about it, and who is a better example of it than native New Yorker Al Foster? On tonight’s Deep Focus, Ben and host Mitch Goldman will listen to rare recordings of Al with Miles Davis and with Joe Henderson from the WKCR archives.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #BenPerowsky #AlFoster #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The way they talk? Is it in their music? Are New York drummers a distinct group? Drummer Ben Perowsky says there’s no doubt about it, and who is a better example of it than native New Yorker Al Foster? On tonight’s Deep Focus, Ben and host Mitch Goldman will listen to rare recordings of Al with Miles Davis and with Joe Henderson from the WKCR archives.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #BenPerowsky #AlFoster #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The way they talk? Is it in their music? Are New York drummers a distinct group? Drummer Ben Perowsky says there’s no doubt about it, and who is a better example of it than native New Yorker Al Foster? On tonight’s Deep Focus, Ben and host Mitch Goldman will listen to rare recordings of Al with Miles Davis and with Joe Henderson from the WKCR archives.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #BenPerowsky #AlFoster #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: The One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? WOT?!
"Is he serious?"
"I guess he must be. I mean, he definitely said it."
"Well, I have to hear this...".
Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: The One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? WOT?!
"Is he serious?"
"I guess he must be. I mean, he definitely said it."
"Well, I have to hear this...".
Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: The One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? WOT?!
"Is he serious?"
"I guess he must be. I mean, he definitely said it."
"Well, I have to hear this...".
Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension and all attributes," you'd better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, your stuff had better be incontrovertibly immaculate. You had better be doing something no one else has ever done and that no one else will do for at least another 50 years. You would look like a complete ass if you delivered anything less than that nearly impossible achievement.
In this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016 with guest Liberty Ellman, find out if John McLaughlin is revered to this day by every knowledgeable plectrist or is a complete laughing stock (hint: no one's laughing and Mahavishnu Orchestra's reign is unending).
And do the WKCR archives deliver unassailable evidence that even the band's greatest fans have never heard? What kind of a question is that?!
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #LibertyEllman #JohnMcLaughlin #MahavishnuOrchestra #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: JohnMcLaughlin - Zirkus Krone, Munich, West Germany - 1973 June 9 PublicDomain File
Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension and all attributes," you'd better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, your stuff had better be incontrovertibly immaculate. You had better be doing something no one else has ever done and that no one else will do for at least another 50 years. You would look like a complete ass if you delivered anything less than that nearly impossible achievement.
In this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016 with guest Liberty Ellman, find out if John McLaughlin is revered to this day by every knowledgeable plectrist or is a complete laughing stock (hint: no one's laughing and Mahavishnu Orchestra's reign is unending).
And do the WKCR archives deliver unassailable evidence that even the band's greatest fans have never heard? What kind of a question is that?!
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #LibertyEllman #JohnMcLaughlin #MahavishnuOrchestra #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: JohnMcLaughlin - Zirkus Krone, Munich, West Germany - 1973 June 9 PublicDomain File
Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension and all attributes," you'd better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, your stuff had better be incontrovertibly immaculate. You had better be doing something no one else has ever done and that no one else will do for at least another 50 years. You would look like a complete ass if you delivered anything less than that nearly impossible achievement.
In this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016 with guest Liberty Ellman, find out if John McLaughlin is revered to this day by every knowledgeable plectrist or is a complete laughing stock (hint: no one's laughing and Mahavishnu Orchestra's reign is unending).
And do the WKCR archives deliver unassailable evidence that even the band's greatest fans have never heard? What kind of a question is that?!
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #LibertyEllman #JohnMcLaughlin #MahavishnuOrchestra #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: JohnMcLaughlin - Zirkus Krone, Munich, West Germany - 1973 June 9 PublicDomain File
If tenor saxophone giant Lester Young said someone has "big ears" it was a high compliment. It meant they were hearing everything that was there to be heard. They had acumen and they had discernment (and what higher aspiration is there for a studious listener?). If Lester Young had heard the music of guitarist Gary Lucas, he would certainly have cited his auricular capaciousness. Captain Beefheart? Sure. 1930's Chinese pop? Certainly. Classical composition? Why not. Gary takes all his food on the same plate, and everything is the subject of profound scrutiny. In this Deep Focus from 2018, Gary Lucas turns his attention to Charles Mingus. Know this, adepts and newbies alike: nothing will prepare you for the impact of what you will hear on this show (unless, of course, you heard this show in 2018).
WKCR #JazzAlternatvies #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #GaryLucas #CharlesMingus @JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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If tenor saxophone giant Lester Young said someone has "big ears" it was a high compliment. It meant they were hearing everything that was there to be heard. They had acumen and they had discernment (and what higher aspiration is there for a studious listener?). If Lester Young had heard the music of guitarist Gary Lucas, he would certainly have cited his auricular capaciousness. Captain Beefheart? Sure. 1930's Chinese pop? Certainly. Classical composition? Why not. Gary takes all his food on the same plate, and everything is the subject of profound scrutiny. In this Deep Focus from 2018, Gary Lucas turns his attention to Charles Mingus. Know this, adepts and newbies alike: nothing will prepare you for the impact of what you will hear on this show (unless, of course, you heard this show in 2018).
WKCR #JazzAlternatvies #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #GaryLucas #CharlesMingus @JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: Charles_Mingus_1976 Tom Marcello Webster - New York - CC BY-SA 2.0
In the Jazz world, Steve Lacy is like Broadway: doesn't fit neatly into the grid but, wherever he intersects it, magical things happen. No wonder he loved Monk and no wonder Phillip Johnston is an acolyte. Phillip and I put Steve Lacy in Deep Focus. Roswell Rudd's trombone also contributes some open-handed wonder.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PhillipJohnston #SteveLacy #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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In the Jazz world, Steve Lacy is like Broadway: doesn't fit neatly into the grid but, wherever he intersects it, magical things happen. No wonder he loved Monk and no wonder Phillip Johnston is an acolyte. Phillip and I put Steve Lacy in Deep Focus. Roswell Rudd's trombone also contributes some open-handed wonder.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PhillipJohnston #SteveLacy #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Steve Lacy by Lioneldecoster, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.jpeg
In the Jazz world, Steve Lacy is like Broadway: doesn't fit neatly into the grid but, wherever he intersects it, magical things happen. No wonder he loved Monk and no wonder Phillip Johnston is an acolyte. Phillip and I put Steve Lacy in Deep Focus. Roswell Rudd's trombone also contributes some open-handed wonder.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PhillipJohnston #SteveLacy #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Steve Lacy by Lioneldecoster, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.jpeg
The subject that a guest chooses for an episode of Deep Focus tells me something about who the guest is. When Jorge Sylvester, an alto saxophonist and composer of a deeply expressive sound and of great discipline, tells me that he wants to talk about Jimmy Lyons, I know that the Focus is going to be Deep indeed. Jorge, in this Deep Focus from 2012, does not disappoint. And what about the WKCR archives? Did they yield live, unreleased recordings? Riches, I tell you. No king, no czar ever had such profound wealth.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JorgeSylvester #JimmyLyons #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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The subject that a guest chooses for an episode of Deep Focus tells me something about who the guest is. When Jorge Sylvester, an alto saxophonist and composer of a deeply expressive sound and of great discipline, tells me that he wants to talk about Jimmy Lyons, I know that the Focus is going to be Deep indeed. Jorge, in this Deep Focus from 2012, does not disappoint. And what about the WKCR archives? Did they yield live, unreleased recordings? Riches, I tell you. No king, no czar ever had such profound wealth.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JorgeSylvester #JimmyLyons #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: Jimmy_Lyons by Brian McMillen - CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org licenses-by-sa-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The subject that a guest chooses for an episode of Deep Focus tells me something about who the guest is. When Jorge Sylvester, an alto saxophonist and composer of a deeply expressive sound and of great discipline, tells me that he wants to talk about Jimmy Lyons, I know that the Focus is going to be Deep indeed. Jorge, in this Deep Focus from 2012, does not disappoint. And what about the WKCR archives? Did they yield live, unreleased recordings? Riches, I tell you. No king, no czar ever had such profound wealth.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JorgeSylvester #JimmyLyons #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: Jimmy_Lyons by Brian McMillen - CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org licenses-by-sa-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part of an organ trio. The sonic thunder of a Hammond B3 organ in the hands of a vibrant musician scorched an impression into him that will stay with him to his last days on earth. Although he heard the organ played night after night during that era, no organist that he heard then or since has matched the tumult that Larry Young brought.
Larry Young, AKA Khalid Yasin, had a sound and textural approach unlike anyone else who has played the instrument. His early blues-inflected playing yielded to a harmonic concept inspired by John Coltrane wedded to an unequaled rhythmic and sonic range. Although he died under mysterious circumstances in 1978 at the age of 37, his work with everyone from Hank Mobley to Jimi Hendrix, Tony Williams to Miles Davis (That's him on "Bitches Brew") as well as his many exceptional dates as a leader have endeared him to a small coterie of very dedicated fans.
In this rebroadcast of a Deep Focus from 2014, William and host Mitch Goldman will explore the WKCR archives for rarities and unreleased gems.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #LarryYoung #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
Photo credits: Larry Young by Francis Wolff/Mosaic Images.
William Hooker photo courtesy of William Hooker.
As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part of an organ trio. The sonic thunder of a Hammond B3 organ in the hands of a vibrant musician scorched an impression into him that will stay with him to his last days on earth. Although he heard the organ played night after night during that era, no organist that he heard then or since has matched the tumult that Larry Young brought.
Larry Young, AKA Khalid Yasin, had a sound and textural approach unlike anyone else who has played the instrument. His early blues-inflected playing yielded to a harmonic concept inspired by John Coltrane wedded to an unequaled rhythmic and sonic range. Although he died under mysterious circumstances in 1978 at the age of 37, his work with everyone from Hank Mobley to Jimi Hendrix, Tony Williams to Miles Davis (That's him on "Bitches Brew") as well as his many exceptional dates as a leader have endeared him to a small coterie of very dedicated fans.
In this rebroadcast of a Deep Focus from 2014, William and host Mitch Goldman will explore the WKCR archives for rarities and unreleased gems.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #LarryYoung #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
Photo credits: Larry Young by Francis Wolff/Mosaic Images.
William Hooker photo courtesy of William Hooker.
As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part of an organ trio. The sonic thunder of a Hammond B3 organ in the hands of a vibrant musician scorched an impression into him that will stay with him to his last days on earth. Although he heard the organ played night after night during that era, no organist that he heard then or since has matched the tumult that Larry Young brought.
Larry Young, AKA Khalid Yasin, had a sound and textural approach unlike anyone else who has played the instrument. His early blues-inflected playing yielded to a harmonic concept inspired by John Coltrane wedded to an unequaled rhythmic and sonic range. Although he died under mysterious circumstances in 1978 at the age of 37, his work with everyone from Hank Mobley to Jimi Hendrix, Tony Williams to Miles Davis (That's him on "Bitches Brew") as well as his many exceptional dates as a leader have endeared him to a small coterie of very dedicated fans.
In this rebroadcast of a Deep Focus from 2014, William and host Mitch Goldman explore the WKCR archives for rarities and unreleased gems.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #LarryYoung #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
Photo credits: Larry Young by Francis Wolff/Mosaic Images.
William Hooker photo courtesy of William Hooker.
Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that the world has never heard, that people will still be talking about 70 years later. Drummer Roy Haynes played Birdland with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, AND HE’S STILL WITH US! Roy’s son Graham Haynes (a marvelously accomplished and inventive musician in his own right) and I celebrate Roy in this Deep Focus from 2017. Yum!
WKCR @JazzRadio #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RoyHaynes #GrahamHaynes #Birdland
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Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that the world has never heard, that people will still be talking about 70 years later. Drummer Roy Haynes played Birdland with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, AND HE’S STILL WITH US! Roy’s son Graham Haynes (a marvelously accomplished and inventive musician in his own right) and I celebrate Roy in this Deep Focus from 2017.
Yum!
WKCR @JazzRadio #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RoyHaynes #GrahamHaynes #Birdland
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Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that the world has never heard, that people will still be talking about 70 years later. Drummer Roy Haynes played Birdland with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, AND HE’S STILL WITH US! Roy’s son Graham Haynes (a marvelously accomplished and inventive musician in his own right) and I celebrate Roy in this Deep Focus from 2017.
Yum!
WKCR @JazzRadio #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #RoyHaynes #GrahamHaynes #Birdland
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A band cannot be a great band if it doesn't have its own distinctive sound. The sonorities of the instruments and the writing are part of it but it's really the character of the players and how they blend, how they respond to one another. Ellington had it, of course; Mingus had it; Ornette always had it, no matter how far flung the instrumentation but... What is it exactly?! It's ineffable, yes, but Brandon Ross spreads light in this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2015 on Keith Jarrett's American Quartet.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrandonRoss #KeithJarrett #KeithJarrettAmericanQuartet
JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
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A band cannot be a great band if it doesn't have its own distinctive sound. The sonorities of the instruments and the writing are part of it but it's really the character of the players and how they blend, how they respond to one another. Ellington had it, of course; Mingus had it; Ornette always had it, no matter how far flung the instrumentation but... What is it exactly?! It's ineffable, yes, but Brandon Ross spreads light in this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2015 on Keith Jarrett's American Quartet.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrandonRoss #KeithJarrett #KeithJarrettAmericanQuartet
JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
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What are the lessons that musicians look to their forebears for? How to play the instrument? Certainly. Composition? Sure. Bandleading? Yes. What else? What about finding humor in desperation? What about embracing life? What about theatricality? What about swagger? What about making something out of nothing? What about the things that make people talk about you decades after you have left the planet? Melvin Gibbs checked out Lester Bowie mighty close and he has something to say about it on this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #MelvinGibbs #LesterBowie #JazzRadio #JazzInterview JazzPodcast
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What are the lessons that musicians look to their forebears for? How to play the instrument? Certainly. Composition? Sure. Bandleading? Yes. What else? What about finding humor in desperation? What about embracing life? What about theatricality? What about swagger? What about making something out of nothing? What about the things that make people talk about you decades after you have left the planet? Melvin Gibbs checked out Lester Bowie mighty close and he has something to say about it on this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016.
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #MelvinGibbs #LesterBowie #JazzRadio #JazzInterview JazzPodcast
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Milford Graves-- percussionist, acupuncturist, herbalist, martial artist, programmer, professor and pioneer of improvised music-- left this world on February 12, 2021. Join me in this celebration of his music and his life in a Deep Focus from July of 2019 with the brilliant Pheeroan Aklaff. Splendor!
As a special bonus, if I get just one request, I will also post the interview that Andy Rotman and I did with Milford in July of 1987(!).
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #PheeroanakLaff #MilfordGraves #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Here for you is a bonus episode. Since we are remembering Milford Graves, this is an interview that Andy Rotman and I did with him in 1987 on the topic of Albert Ayler. Thank you for the music, Milford!
Milford Graves-- percussionist, acupuncturist, herbalist, martial artist, programmer, professor and pioneer of improvised music-- left this world on February 12, 2021. Join me in this celebration of his music and his life in a Deep Focus from July of 2019 with the brilliant Pheeroan Aklaff. Splendor!
As a special bonus, if I get just one request, I will also post the interview that Andy Rotman and I did with Milford in July of 1987(!).
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #PheeroanakLaff #MilfordGraves #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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Milford Graves-- percussionist, acupuncturist, herbalist, martial artist, programmer, professor and pioneer of improvised music-- left this world on February 12, 2021. Join me in this celebration of his music and his life in a Deep Focus from July of 2019 with the brilliant Pheeroan Aklaff. Splendor!
As a special bonus, if I get just one request, I will also post the interview that Andy Rotman and I did with Milford in July of 1987(!).
WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #PheeroanakLaff #MilfordGraves #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: Milford Graves by Andy Newcombe Farnborough, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If you are looking for new ways to think about and hear this music, pay attention to what Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran are doing, both separately and together. Consider how Jason looks at the physical culture around the music's past and present, as he did in his show at the Whitney Museum last year; check out Alicia's take on her personal and family history in her theatrical stage shows; explore the topics that they engage with in their sweeping multi-disciplinary performances. Jason and Alicia came by the studio in March of last year in anticipation of their sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall, Two Wings. Their inspired (and inspiring) topics for Deep Focus? Jaki Byard for Jason and Nina Simone for Alicia. The WKCR archives yielded treasures for both, and Jason and Alicia's insights made the riches even more abundant.
DeepFocus #JasonMoran #AliciaHallMoran #JakiByard #NinaSimone #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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If you are looking for new ways to think about and hear this music, pay attention to what Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran are doing, both separately and together. Consider how Jason looks at the physical culture around the music's past and present, as he did in his show at the Whitney Museum last year; check out Alicia's take on her personal and family history in her theatrical stage shows; explore the topics that they engage with in their sweeping multi-disciplinary performances. Jason and Alicia came by the studio in March of last year in anticipation of their sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall, Two Wings. Their inspired (and inspiring) topics for Deep Focus? Jaki Byard for Jason and Nina Simone for Alicia. The WKCR archives yielded treasures for both, and Jason and Alicia's insights made the riches even more abundant.
DeepFocus #JasonMoran #AliciaHallMoran #JakiByard #NinaSimone #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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If you are looking for new ways to think about and hear this music, pay attention to what Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran are doing, both separately and together. Consider how Jason looks at the physical culture around the music's past and present, as he did in his show at the Whitney Museum last year; check out Alicia's take on her personal and family history in her theatrical stage shows; explore the topics that they engage with in their sweeping multi-disciplinary performances. Jason and Alicia came by the studio in March of last year in anticipation of their sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall, Two Wings. Their inspired (and inspiring) topics for Deep Focus? Jaki Byard for Jason and Nina Simone for Alicia. The WKCR archives yielded treasures for both, and Jason and Alicia's insights made the riches even more abundant.
DeepFocus #JasonMoran #AliciaHallMoran #JakiByard #NinaSimone #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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I always liked Chick Corea's music but, not being a musician, I never knew why I liked it. That is to say that I never really understood what it was that was so distinctive about what he was doing, musically speaking. Brian Charette revealed Chick's innovations and their antecedents in the music going back generations. This is a true master class on how a virtuoso such as Chick expands the vocabulary of the music. And it only added to my enjoyment of the rare recordings from the WKCR archives that we listened to with our audience.
Please join us in (re)discovering these loving insights into Chick Corea's utterly unique approach to the music.
MitchGoldman #deepfocus #jazzinterview #ChickCorea #JazzRadio #jazzpodcast #BrianCharette
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I always liked Chick Corea's music but, not being a musician, I never knew why I liked it. That is to say that I never really understood what it was that was so distinctive about what he was doing, musically speaking. Brian Charette revealed Chick's innovations and their antecedents in the music going back generations. This is a true master class on how a virtuoso such as Chick expands the vocabulary of the music. And it only added to my enjoyment of the rare recordings from the WKCR archives that we listened to with our audience.
Please join us in (re)discovering these loving insights into Chick Corea's utterly unique approach to the music.
MitchGoldman #deepfocus #jazzinterview #ChickCorea #JazzRadio #jazzpodcast #BrianCharette
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I always liked Chick Corea's music but, not being a musician, I never knew why I liked it. That is to say that I never really understood what it was that was so distinctive about what he was doing, musically speaking. Brian Charette revealed Chick's innovations and their antecedents in the music going back generations. This is a true master class on how a virtuoso such as Chick expands the vocabulary of the music. And it only added to my enjoyment of the rare recordings from the WKCR archives that we listened to with our audience.
Please join us in (re)discovering these loving insights into Chick Corea's utterly unique approach to the music.
MitchGoldman #deepfocus #jazzinterview #ChickCorea #JazzRadio #jazzpodcast #BrianCharette
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Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in a rebroadcast from 2015. Hard-to-find radio broadcasts from the WKCR archives help them shed new light on this influential musical thinker. You want to explore the music of a writer like Horace? Ask a writer like Bill! He takes it deep, all right.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #BillWare #HoraceSilver #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz Pocast
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Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in a rebroadcast from 2015. Hard-to-find radio broadcasts from the WKCR archives help them shed new light on this influential musical thinker. You want to explore the music of a writer like Horace? Ask a writer like Bill! He takes it deep, all right.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #BillWare #HoraceSilver #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Dimitri Savitski, SAVITSKI, CC BY-SA 2.5 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 via Wikimedia Commons.
Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in a rebroadcast from 2015. Hard-to-find radio broadcasts from the WKCR archives help them shed new light on this influential musical thinker. You want to explore the music of a writer like Horace? Ask a writer like Bill! He takes it deep, all right.
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #BillWare #HoraceSilver #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Dimitri Savitski, SAVITSKI, CC BY-SA 2.5 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 via Wikimedia Commons.
Hermeto Pascoal is one of those artists who, every time you play his singular music, you see the lights go on for a new batch of listeners. Meanwhile, his established fans say, "Why don't you ever play this guy?!" and I say, "What do you mean? I JUST played him!" They're relentless!
On the last episode of Deep Focus, in a rebroadcast from 2013, we listened to multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal with guidance from his fellow musical inventor, our guest, Leon Gruenbaum. This Monday we play the following show in which we go over the top with more Hermeto! More Leon! And now with the additional wisdom of bassist Henry Schroy who has made an extensive study of Hermeto's music. Do you think THAT will be enough for those Hermeto fans? I seriouly doubt it very much but it's certainly worth trying.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #LeonGruenbaum #HenrySchroy #HermetoPascoal #BrazilianMusic #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Hermeto Pascoal is one of those artists who, every time you play his singular music, you see the lights go on for a new batch of listeners. Meanwhile, his established fans say, "Why don't you ever play this guy?!" and I say, "What do you mean? I JUST played him!" They're relentless!
On the last episode of Deep Focus, in a rebroadcast from 2013, we listened to multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal with guidance from his fellow musical inventor, our guest, Leon Gruenbaum. This Monday we play the following show in which we go over the top with more Hermeto! More Leon! And now with the additional wisdom of bassist Henry Schroy who has made an extensive study of Hermeto's music. Do you think THAT will be enough for those Hermeto fans? I seriouly doubt it very much but it's certainly worth trying.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #LeonGruenbaum #HenrySchroy #HermetoPascoal #BrazilianMusic #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Hermeto Pascoal is one of those artists who, every time you play his singular music, you see the lights go on for a new batch of listeners. Meanwhile, his established fans say, "Why don't you ever play this guy?!" and I say, "What do you mean? I JUST played him!" They're relentless!
On the last episode of Deep Focus, in a rebroadcast from 2013, we listened to multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal with guidance from his fellow musical inventor, our guest, Leon Gruenbaum. This Monday we play the following show in which we go over the top with more Hermeto! More Leon! And now with the additional wisdom of bassist Henry Schroy who has made an extensive study of Hermeto's music. Do you think THAT will be enough for those Hermeto fans? I seriouly doubt it very much but it's certainly worth trying.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #LeonGruenbaum #HenrySchroy #HermetoPascoal #BrazilianMusic #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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This is one of one of the most requested Deep Focus episodes of all time. On June 6, 2016, William Hooker and Steve Dalachinsky were my guests for a Deep Focus on Cecil Taylor.
Both Cecil's death in 2018 and Steve's in 2019 unleashed outpourings of love and admiration that they should only have been here to experience, both men vibrant omnipresences in the music world. They are both gone, yes, but you and I are here. Let's remember them together. It's a fun one! Photo credit: andynew, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
This is one of one of the most requested Deep Focus episodes of all time. On June 6, 2016, William Hooker and Steve Dalachinsky were my guests for a Deep Focus on Cecil Taylor.
Both Cecil's death in 2018 and Steve's in 2019 unleashed outpourings of love and admiration that they should only have been here to experience, both men vibrant omnipresences in the music world. They are both gone, yes, but you and I are here. Let's remember them together. It's a fun one! Photo credit: andynew, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
This is one of one of the most requested Deep Focus episodes of all time. On June 6, 2016, William Hooker and Steve Dalachinsky were my guests for a Deep Focus on Cecil Taylor.
Both Cecil's death in 2018 and Steve's in 2019 unleashed outpourings of love and admiration that they should only have been here to experience, both men vibrant omnipresences in the music world. They are both gone, yes, but you and I are here. Let's remember them together. It's a fun one!
Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in the world"? The correct answer to that question is, "No, it would not!" That would be leaving out his truly distinctive system of musical organization, the bands of acolytes who have interpreted his work, the number of instruments he has mastered and performed on and, especially, the savage, detonating beauty of his music, the way he evokes nature's simplicity and complexity through sound. You've never heard anything like it. And there is no one better to take us through this music than Leon Gruenbaum. Like Hermeto, Leon is a composer, a bandleader, an inventor of musical instruments and systems of exquisite wonder. They have both lived in New York and in Brazil... Wait a minute: this is like that Kennedy-Lincoln thing! Come check it out -
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #HermetoPascoal #LeonGruenbaum #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in the world"? The correct answer to that question is, "No, it would not!" That would be leaving out his truly distinctive system of musical organization, the bands of acolytes who have interpreted his work, the number of instruments he has mastered and performed on and, especially, the savage, detonating beauty of his music, the way he evokes nature's simplicity and complexity through sound. You've never heard anything like it. And there is no one better to take us through this music than Leon Gruenbaum. Like Hermeto, Leon is a composer, a bandleader, an inventor of musical instruments and systems of exquisite wonder. They have both lived in New York and in Brazil... Wait a minute: this is like that Kennedy-Lincoln thing! Come check it out -
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #HermetoPascoal #LeonGruenbaum #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: HermetoBsAs78-Arturo-Encina Arturo Encina, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in the world"? The correct answer to that question is, "No, it would not!" That would be leaving out his truly distinctive system of musical organization, the bands of acolytes who have interpreted his work, the number of instruments he has mastered and performed on and, especially, the savage, detonating beauty of his music, the way he evokes nature's simplicity and complexity through sound. You've never heard anything like it. And there is no one better to take us through this music than Leon Gruenbaum. Like Hermeto, Leon is a composer, a bandleader, an inventor of musical instruments and systems of exquisite wonder. They have both lived in New York and in Brazil... Wait a minute: this is like that Kennedy-Lincoln thing! Come check it out -
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #HermetoPascoal #LeonGruenbaum #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: HermetoBsAs78-Arturo-Encina Arturo Encina, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Arturo O’Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in everything he does. When host Mitch Goldman asked him for a topic for Deep Focus, his response consisted of two equally surprising options: either Steely Dan or Olivier Messiaen. Well, Messiaen is going to have to wait; Steely Dan won the day.
What's that you say? You're not a Steely Dan fan?! Probably because you haven't heard a proper Jazz man's take on them at the top of their game.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #ArturoO'Farrill #SteelyDan #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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Arturo O’Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in everything he does. When host Mitch Goldman asked him for a topic for Deep Focus, his response consisted of two equally surprising options: either Steely Dan or Olivier Messiaen. Well, Messiaen is going to have to wait; Steely Dan won the day.
What's that you say? You're not a Steely Dan fan?! Probably because you haven't heard a proper Jazz man's take on them at the top of their game.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #ArturoOFarrill #SteelyDan #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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Arturo O’Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in everything he does. When host Mitch Goldman asked him for a topic for Deep Focus, his response consisted of two equally surprising options: either Steely Dan or Olivier Messiaen. Well, Messiaen is going to have to wait; Steely Dan won the day.
What's that you say? You're not a Steely Dan fan?! Probably because you haven't heard a proper Jazz man's take on them at the top of their game.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #ArturoO'Farrill #SteelyDan #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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What can Pheeroan akLaff and I offer you to start a new year of fathomless possibilities? "Eye-opening... coincidences that happened around Mr. Eric Dolphy or even eyebrow-raising revelations but certainly a celebration of his life and work." Those are Pheeroan's words from our Deep Focus from May of 2015, with ear-opening fireworks from the archives. See you on the podcast!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #EricDolphy #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzArchives
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What can Pheeroan akLaff and I offer you to start a new year of fathomless possibilities? "Eye-opening... coincidences that happened around Mr. Eric Dolphy or even eyebrow-raising revelations but certainly a celebration of his life and work." Those are Pheeroan's words from our Deep Focus from May of 2015. See you on the podcast!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #EricDolphy #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzArchives
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What can Pheeroan akLaff and I offer you to start a new year of fathomless possibilities? "Eye-opening... coincidences that happened around Mr. Eric Dolphy or even eyebrow-raising revelations but certainly a celebration of his life and work." Those are Pheeroan's words from our Deep Focus from May of 2015. See you on the podcast!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #EricDolphy #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzArchives
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Well, it's the last Deep Focus of the year and we're going out with a bang. Brian Charette is our guest and we're presenting one on lost master of the Hammond B3 organ Ethel Smith. Our money-back guarantee: you have never heard anything like this!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #EthelSmith #Jazz #JazzInterview #JazzRadio
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Well, it's the last 2 Deep Focus podcasts of the year and we're going out with a bang. Brian Charette is our guest and we're presenting not one but two episodes that he was on: this one on Weather Report featuring Jaco Pastorius and next week on lost master of the Hammond B3 organ Ethel Smith. Our money-back guarantee: you have never heard anything like this!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #WeatherReport #EthelSmith #Jaco #JacoPastorius #Jazz #JazzInterview #JazzRadio
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From the outside, Big Ideas seem to emerge in one complete piece. But If you find yourself inside them, either because you are part of their genesis or because your focused attention has brought you wisdom, you might see the narrative very differently. You might see it as an assemblage of parts, as an ongoing discussion among bright, divergent minds.
Guitarist Vernon Reid has been part of creating a few Big Ideas and he has peeped the inner workings of quite a few more. On Deep Focus this week, he expounds on the band Weather Report during their crucial mid-Seventies period. Host Mitch Goldman brings rare, live recordings from the WKCR archives, recordings that reveal a band playing trailblazing music for enormous crowds of adoring fans. As always, Vernon brings the urbane, the incisive and the hilarious.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #VernonReid #WeatherReport #LivingColour #JoeZawinul #WayneShorter #AlphonsoJohnson #Fusion #JazzRockFusion #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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From the outside, Big Ideas seem to emerge in one complete piece. But If you find yourself inside them, either because you are part of their genesis or because your focused attention has brought you wisdom, you might see the narrative very differently. You might see it as an assemblage of parts, as an ongoing discussion among bright, divergent minds.
Guitarist Vernon Reid has been part of creating a few Big Ideas and he has peeped the inner workings of quite a few more. On Deep Focus this week, he expounds on the band Weather Report during their crucial mid-Seventies period. Host Mitch Goldman brings rare, live recordings from the WKCR archives, recordings that reveal a band playing trailblazing music for enormous crowds of adoring fans. As always, Vernon brings the urbane, the incisive and the hilarious.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #VernonReid #WeatherReport #LivingColour #JoeZawinul #WayneShorter #AlphonsoJohnson #Fusion #JazzRockFusion #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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From the outside, Big Ideas seem to emerge in one complete piece. But If you find yourself inside them, either because you are part of their genesis or because your focused attention has brought you wisdom, you might see the narrative very differently. You might see it as an assemblage of parts, as an ongoing discussion among bright, divergent minds.
Guitarist Vernon Reid has been part of creating a few Big Ideas and he has peeped the inner workings of quite a few more. On Deep Focus this week, he expounds on the band Weather Report during their crucial mid-Seventies period. Host Mitch Goldman brings rare, live recordings from the WKCR archives, recordings that reveal a band playing trailblazing music for enormous crowds of adoring fans. As always, Vernon brings the urbane, the incisive and the hilarious.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #VernonReid #WeatherReport #LivingColour #JoeZawinul #WayneShorter #AlphonsoJohnson #Fusion #JazzRockFusion #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Many people think it was Miles Davis who first fused Rock and Jazz. Sorry, folks: Tony Williams got there sooner (and louder!). His band Lifetime gave musicians from both genres an infinite array of new roads to explore and no one flew farther and faster down them than drummer Billy Cobham. Cobham was already established in the Jazz scene when Lifetime emerged in 1969 but his work with Miles, with Mahavishnu Orchestra and with his own ensembles revealed possibilities that not even Tony Williams had considered. This was surely the journey of a Lifetime.
In 2013, Billy Cobham joined host Mitch Goldman for a memorable Deep Focus on some rare live recordings of Tony Williams’ Lifetime. Truly, this is one of the Great Secret Vaults. If you know, you know (and if you don’t, now you do).
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BillyCobham #TonyWilliams #JazzRadio #JazzRockFusion #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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Many people think it was Miles Davis who first fused Rock and Jazz. Sorry, folks: Tony Williams got there sooner (and louder!). His band Lifetime gave musicians from both genres an infinite array of new roads to explore and no one flew farther and faster down them than drummer Billy Cobham. Cobham was already established in the Jazz scene when Lifetime emerged in 1969 but his work with Miles, with Mahavishnu Orchestra and with his own ensembles revealed possibilities that not even Tony Williams had considered. This was surely the journey of a Lifetime.
In 2013, Billy Cobham joined host Mitch Goldman for a memorable Deep Focus on some rare live recordings of Tony Williams’ Lifetime. Truly, this is one of the Great Secret Vaults. If you know, you know (and if you don’t, now you do).
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BillyCobham #TonyWilliams #JazzRadio #JazzRockFusion #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
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McCoy Tyner was one of the many greats who we lost in this year of Covid-19 but the light his music shines on the music world is as bright as ever. Had he not been an anchor of what many consider the greatest ensemble of all time-- the classic Coltrane Quartet-- he would still be revered as a mighty innovator: a seeker who sought new, higher ground and took us all there with him. But he WAS a vital part of that band; in fact, he was the last surviving member. He was!
Saxophonist Eric Person has been a dedicated Tynerologist for most of his days. He and host Mitch Goldman take us through some rare live recordings in this Deep Focus from 2011.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #EricPerson #McCoyTyner #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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McCoy Tyner was one of the many greats who we lost in this year of Covid-19 but the light his music shines on the music world is as bright as ever. Had he not been an anchor of what many consider the greatest ensemble of all time-- the classic Coltrane Quartet-- he would still be revered as a mighty innovator: a seeker who sought new, higher ground and took us all there with him. But he WAS a vital part of that band; in fact, he was the last surviving member. He was!
Saxophonist Eric Person has been a dedicated Tynerologist for most of his days. He and host Mitch Goldman take us through some rare live recordings in this Deep Focus from 2011.
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #EricPerson #McCoyTyner #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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Say the name “Jimmy Lyons” to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that Lyons’ work on alto sax brought to Taylor’s music was one of the most fruitful and enduring in the history of the music. But Eric Person knows that Lyons was also a bandleader in his own right and that, while he will always be associated with the ferocious innovator with whom he played for 20 years, had the two never met, we would still be talking about Lyons 30+ years after his death. His sound and his concept are without compare. See ya on the radio!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JimmyLyons #EricPerson #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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Say the name “Jimmy Lyons” to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that Lyons’ work on alto sax brought to Taylor’s music was one of the most fruitful and enduring in the history of the music. But Eric Person knows that Lyons was also a bandleader in his own right and that, while he will always be associated with the ferocious innovator with whom he played for 20 years, had the two never met, we would still be talking about Lyons 30+ years after his death. His sound and his concept are without compare. See ya on the radio!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JimmyLyons #EricPerson #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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Say the name “Jimmy Lyons” to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that Lyons’ work on alto sax brought to Taylor’s music was one of the most fruitful and enduring in the history of the music. But Eric Person knows that Lyons was also a bandleader in his own right and that, while he will always be associated with the ferocious innovator with whom he played for 20 years, had the two never met, we would still be talking about Lyons 30+ years after his death. His sound and his concept are without compare. See ya on the radio!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JimmyLyons #EricPerson #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
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Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as long as there is breath. Others seem to be on an eternal search for new ways of expressing and identifying themselves; Geri Allen was one of these. Maybe that is part of why the death of this brilliant, soulful, inventive pianist in 2017 at age 60 was so heartbreaking for the music world. She hadn’t finished! There was so much left to say.
We continue our month of Deep Focus programs with composer/bandleader/reed man Eric Person. In this rebroadcast from 2018, he and host Mitch Goldman will explore the supergroup Geri Allen co-led with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Charlie Haden. Oh, this is the good stuff!
WKCR #DeepFocus #GeriAllen #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Bryan Thompson, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as long as there is breath. Others seem to be on an eternal search for new ways of expressing and identifying themselves; Geri Allen was one of these. Maybe that is part of why the death of this brilliant, soulful, inventive pianist in 2017 at age 60 was so heartbreaking for the music world. She hadn’t finished! There was so much left to say.
We continue our month of Deep Focus programs with composer/bandleader/reed man Eric Person. In this rebroadcast from 2018, he and host Mitch Goldman will explore the supergroup Geri Allen co-led with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Charlie Haden. Oh, this is the good stuff!
WKCR #DeepFocus #GeriAllen #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Pittsburgh's City Paper.
Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as long as there is breath. Others seem to be on an eternal search for new ways of expressing and identifying themselves; Geri Allen was one of these. Maybe that is part of why the death of this brilliant, soulful, inventive pianist in 2017 at age 60 was so heartbreaking for the music world. She hadn’t finished! There was so much left to say.
We continue our month of Deep Focus programs with composer/bandleader/reed man Eric Anthony Person. In this rebroadcast from 2018, he and host Mitch Goldman explore the supergroup Geri Allen co-led with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Charlie Haden. Oh, this is the good stuff!
WKCR #DeepFocus #GeriAllen #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Pittsburgh's City Paper.
How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.
mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus
Sonny Rollins
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How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.
mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus
Sonny Rollins
Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.
mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus
SonnyRollins
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In the Jazz world of utterly distinctive individuals, trumpeter Woody Shaw still managed to stand out. He didn’t speak like everybody else, he didn’t move like everybody else (the hours of tai chi that he would do-- sometimes right in the audience of a performance venue-- might have had something to do with that), he didn’t think like everybody else and he certainly didn’t play like anybody else. When saxophonist Eric Anthony Person and host Mitch Goldman were coming up, his live shows were not to be missed.
This is going to be a barnburner!
WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #WoodyShaw #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
In the Jazz world of utterly distinctive individuals, trumpeter Woody Shaw still managed to stand out. He didn’t speak like everybody else, he didn’t move like everybody else (the hours of tai chi that he would do-- sometimes right in the audience of a performance venue-- might have had something to do with that), he didn’t think like everybody else and he certainly didn’t play like anybody else. When saxophonist Eric Anthony Person and host Mitch Goldman were coming up, his live shows were not to be missed.
This is going to be a barnburner!
WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #WoodyShaw #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
In the Jazz world of utterly distinctive individuals, trumpeter Woody Shaw still managed to stand out. He didn’t speak like everybody else, he didn’t move like everybody else (the hours of tai chi that he would do-- sometimes right in the audience of a performance venue-- might have had something to do with that), he didn’t think like everybody else and he certainly didn’t play like anybody else. When saxophonist Eric Anthony Person and host Mitch Goldman were coming up, his live shows were not to be missed.
This is going to be a barnburner!
WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #WoodyShaw #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
Photo credit: Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Vocalist Lezlie Harrison is my guest for a Deep Focus on Abbey Lincoln. Achingly beautiful recordings of Abbey that you have never heard and Lezlie lifts the veil on Abbey in a whole new way.
Come thru!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #AbbeyLincoln #LezlieHarrison #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
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Vocalist Lezlie Harrison is my guest for a Deep Focus on Abbey Lincoln. Achingly beautiful recordings of Abbey that you have never heard and Lezlie lifts the veil on Abbey in a whole new way.
Come thru!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #AbbeyLincoln #LezlieHarrison #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
Photo credit: Jac. de Nijs / Anefo; Restoration by User:Adam Cuerden, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vocalist Lezlie Harrison is my guest for a Deep Focus on Abbey Lincoln. Achingly beautiful recordings of Abbey that you have never heard and Lezlie lifts the veil on Abbey in a whole new way.
Come thru!
WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #AbbeyLincoln #LezlieHarrison #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
Photo credit: Jac. de Nijs / Anefo; Restoration by User:Adam Cuerden, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
“Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.” Thelonious Monk said those words; Henry Threadgill embodies those words. This week's Deep Focus: Henry Threadgill on Thelonious Monk with host Mitch Goldman in a rebroadcast from 2017.
The number of people who fully appreciate and can lend insight into Thelonious Monk’s musical achievements? Few. The number who know what it’s like to hear music no one has heard before? Far fewer. Henry Threadgill is the most distinctive and inventive composer/bandleader in music today and has been for many years. Besides, Henry’s a crack-up! Oh, this one…!
Photo: Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 by the brilliant William P. Gottlieb.
Credit: William P. Gottlieb / Public domain
WKCR #DeepFocus #HenryThreadgill #TheloniousMonk #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
“Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.” Thelonious Monk said those words; Henry Threadgill embodies those words. This week's Deep Focus: Henry Threadgill on Thelonious Monk with host Mitch Goldman in a rebroadcast from 2017.
The number of people who fully appreciate and can lend insight into Thelonious Monk’s musical achievements? Few. The number who know what it’s like to hear music no one has heard before? Far fewer. Henry Threadgill is the most distinctive and inventive composer/bandleader in music today and has been for many years. Besides, Henry’s a crack-up! Oh, this one…!
Photo: Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 by the brilliant William P. Gottlieb.
Credit: William P. Gottlieb / Public domain
WKCR #DeepFocus #HenryThreadgill #TheloniousMonk #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
“Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.” Thelonious Monk said those words; Henry Threadgill embodies those words. This week's Deep Focus: Henry Threadgill on Thelonious Monk with host Mitch Goldman in a rebroadcast from 2017.
The number of people who fully appreciate and can lend insight into Thelonious Monk’s musical achievements? Few. The number who know what it’s like to hear music no one has heard before? Far fewer. Henry Threadgill is the most distinctive and inventive composer/bandleader in music today and has been for many years. Besides, Henry’s a crack-up! Oh, this one…!
Photo: Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 by the brilliant William P. Gottlieb.
Credit: William P. Gottlieb / Public domain
WKCR #DeepFocus #HenryThreadgill #TheloniousMonk #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
Billy Bang wasn’t called “Billy Bang” for nothing. He earned that name as a demolitions expert in Viet Nam but it was equally apt when he was blowing up the violin in searing explosions filled with joy and heartache. Few know this as well as drummer William Hooker who toured and recorded with Billy.
William Hooker has never released the recordings but he shares them with us in this Deep Focus from 2017 on Billy Bang.
WKCR #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #BillyBang #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz #CreativeMusic
Photo credit: One dead president / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Billy Bang wasn’t called “Billy Bang” for nothing. He earned that name as a demolitions expert in Viet Nam but it was equally apt when he was blowing up the violin in searing explosions filled with joy and heartache. Few know this as well as drummer William Hooker who toured and recorded with Billy.
William Hooker has never released the recordings but he shares them with us in this Deep Focus from 2017 on Billy Bang.
WKCR #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #BillyBang #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz #CreativeMusic
Photo credit: One dead president / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Ornette Coleman was renowned for dispensing with the rules of Jazz improvisation. So can Ornette's concept be taught? Even institutionalized? That was the question before Ornette and fellow musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso in the early Seventies. The answer? Oh yes, it can. You bet it can! Institutionalized with all of its infinite horizons still in view. The Creative Music Studio, in Woodstock, NY, became a learning center, a nexus point for emerging improvisers, a concert producer... As founding advisory board member Buckminster Fuller might have said, a verb rather than a noun. For a dozen years, CMS pointed the way to undiscovered lands and provided the means and directions for getting there. Its impact decades later is undiminished and certainly not forgotten by the many who passed through it. You will find quite a number of these folks named in any evaluation of today's most imaginative improvisers. Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso joined host Mitch Goldman in a Deep Focus on the history of CMS in 2012, complete with ear-opening, never-before-heard live recordings.
WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #Jazz #CreativeMusic
Photo credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 1982
Ornette Coleman was renowned for dispensing with the rules of Jazz improvisation. So can Ornette's concept be taught? Even institutionalized? That was the question before Ornette and fellow musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso in the early Seventies. The answer? Oh yes, it can. You bet it can! Institutionalized with all of its infinite horizons still in view. The Creative Music Studio, in Woodstock, NY, became a learning center, a nexus point for emerging improvisers, a concert producer... As founding advisory board member Buckminster Fuller might have said, a verb rather than a noun. For a dozen years, CMS pointed the way to undiscovered lands and provided the means and directions for getting there. Its impact decades later is undiminished and certainly not forgotten by the many who passed through it. You will find quite a number of these folks named in any evaluation of today's most imaginative improvisers. Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso joined host Mitch Goldman in a Deep Focus on the history of CMS in 2012, complete with ear-opening, never-before-heard live recordings.
WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 1982
Ornette Coleman was renowned for dispensing with the rules of Jazz improvisation. So can Ornette's concept be taught? Even institutionalized? That was the question before Ornette and fellow musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso in the early Seventies. The answer? Oh yes, it can. You bet it can! Institutionalized with all of its infinite horizons still in view. The Creative Music Studio, in Woodstock, NY, became a learning center, a nexus point for emerging improvisers, a concert producer... As founding advisory board member Buckminster Fuller might have said, a verb rather than a noun. For a dozen years, CMS pointed the way to undiscovered lands and provided the means and directions for getting there. Its impact decades later is undiminished and certainly not forgotten by the many who passed through it. You will find quite a number of these folks named in any evaluation of today's most imaginative improvisers. Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso joined host Mitch Goldman in a Deep Focus on the history of CMS in 2012, complete with ear-opening, never-before-heard live recordings. Hear a rebroadcast of this recording Monday night (9/28) from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.
WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman
Photo credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 1982
Does the name “Mwandishi” Mean anything to you? How about “Headhunters”? Herbie Hancock is one of our most respected composer/improvisers today but in the Seventies there was a whole other thing going on. Herbie, in his music and in the cool images of him back then, always seemed to be 5 minutes in the future. And who did he find in that immediate future? Visual artist/musician Richard Admiral was right there waiting for him. If you saw Admiral's tags "BAMA" or "AMRL" in the train yards of The Bronx, you were closer to Herbie's music than you knew. Are we talking about "back in the day'? No, this was quite a ways before that.
Richard Admiral joins me in a rebroadcast from 2017 on the music of Herbie Hancock in the Seventies.
Podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #DeepFocus #HerbieHancock #RichardAdmiral #MitchGoldman #SeventiesJazz #GraffitiArt #NYCintheSeventies #BAMA_AMRL
Photo credit: CBS Television - Public domain
Does the name “Mwandishi” Mean anything to you? How about “Headhunters”? Herbie Hancock is one of our most respected composer/improvisers today but in the Seventies there was a whole other thing going on. Herbie, in his music and in the cool images of him back then, always seemed to be 5 minutes in the future. And who did he find in that immediate future? Visual artist/musician Richard Admiral was right there waiting for him. If you saw Admiral's tags "BAMA" or "AMRL" in the train yards of The Bronx, you were closer to Herbie's music than you knew. Are we talking about "back in the day'? No, this was quite a ways before that.
Richard Admiral joins me in a rebroadcast from 2017 on the music of Herbie Hancock in the Seventies.
Podcast Tuesday: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #DeepFocus #HerbieHancock #RichardAdmiral #MitchGoldman #SeventiesJazz #GraffitiArt #NYCintheSeventies #BAMA_AMRL
Photo credit: CBS Television - Public domain
Does the name “Mwandishi” Mean anything to you? How about “Headhunters”? Herbie Hancock is one of our most respected composer/improvisers today but in the Seventies there was a whole other thing going on. Herbie, in his music and in the cool images of him back then, always seemed to be 5 minutes in the future. And who did he find in that immediate future? Visual artist/musician Richard Admiral was right there waiting for him. If you saw Admiral's tags "BAMA" or "AMRL" in the train yards of The Bronx, you were closer to Herbie's music than you knew. Are we talking about "back in the day'? No, this was quite a ways before that.
Richard Admiral joins me in a rebroadcast from 2017 on the music of Herbie Hancock in the Seventies.
Podcast Tuesday: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #DeepFocus #HerbieHancock #RichardAdmiral #MitchGoldman #SeventiesJazz #GraffitiArt #NYCintheSeventies #BAMA_AMRL
Photo credit: CBS Television - Public domain
Long before George Benson became a pop hitmaker he was a Jazz guitar assassin. Many top-shelf plectrists will tell you that he is still the guitarists’ guitarist. Wait a minute: "top-shelf plectrist"…. Who does that remind me of? David Gilmore: school me!
mitchgoldman #deepfocus #DavidGilmore #GeorgeBenson #jazz #JazzRadio #jazzinterview #WKCR
Photo credit: Robbie Drexhage / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Long before George Benson became a pop hitmaker he was a Jazz guitar assassin. Many top-shelf plectrists will tell you that he is still the guitarists’ guitarist. Wait a minute: "top-shelf plectrist"…. Who does that remind me of? David Gilmore: school me!
mitchgoldman #deepfocus #DavidGilmore #GeorgeBenson #jazz #JazzRadio #jazzinterview #WKCR
Photo credit: Robbie Drexhage / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Long before George Benson became a pop hitmaker he was a Jazz guitar assassin. Many top-shelf plectrists will tell you that he is still the guitarists’ guitarist. Wait a minute: "top-shelf plectrist"…. Who does that remind me of? David Gilmore: school me!
mitchgoldman #deepfocus #DavidGilmore #GeorgeBenson #jazz #JazzRadio #jazzinterview #WKCR
Photo credit: Robbie Drexhage / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
We were talking about “The Total Package” as a bandleader: what does that really mean? It means choosing the right sidemen (perhaps ones whom others might not have thought of); it means choosing the right music (maybe songs you write or ones you cultivate from other composers). More than anything, it means having a distinct point of view and letting those decisions flow from that. Don Pullen demonstrated that ethos through the many bands he led over the years, none more so than his last band, The African-Brazilian Connection (I mean, the POV is there in the name!).
Drummer JT Lewis was in that band. Maybe that experience contributed to his decision to start the band that he still co-leads, Harriet Tubman (hmmm, there’s one of those names again).
Trust me: this is one from the heart.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JTLewis #DonPullen #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
We were talking about “The Total Package” as a bandleader: what does that really mean? It means choosing the right sidemen (perhaps ones whom others might not have thought of); it means choosing the right music (maybe songs you write or ones you cultivate from other composers). More than anything, it means having a distinct point of view and letting those decisions flow from that. Don Pullen demonstrated that ethos through the many bands he led over the years, none more so than his last band, The African-Brazilian Connection (I mean, the POV is there in the name!).
Drummer JT Lewis was in that band. Maybe that experience contributed to his decision to start the band that he still co-leads, Harriet Tubman (hmmm, there’s one of those names again).
Trust me: this is one from the heart.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JTLewis #DonPullen #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
We were talking about “The Total Package” as a bandleader: what does that really mean? It means choosing the right sidemen (perhaps ones whom others might not have thought of); it means choosing the right music (maybe songs you write or ones you cultivate from other composers). More than anything, it means having a distinct point of view and letting those decisions flow from that. Don Pullen demonstrated that ethos through the many bands he led over the years, none more so than his last band, The African-Brazilian Connection (I mean, the POV is there in the name!).
Drummer JT Lewis was in that band. Maybe that experience contributed to his decision to start the band that he still co-leads, Harriet Tubman (hmmm, there’s one of those names again).
Trust me: this is one from the heart.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JTLewis #DonPullen #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
Don Pullen photo credit: Metaweb FB CC-BY-SA
There’s a school of thought among some jazz musicians that you should learn all you can– study, practice, master every scale and every mode– and then on the bandstand you leave all that behind and simply play, as a child plays. No one embodies this ideal more than Keith Jarrett; he is renowned for sitting down at the piano with absolutely no preconceived idea of what he is going to play. What emerges is a spontaneous composition. When you listen to Jack DeSalvo, it’s immediately apparent that he has an enormous musical vocabulary. Renaissance classical, garage rock, straight ahead jazz, downtown skronk and traditional mandolin melodies are all part of his musical DNA. But when you hear DeSalvo improvise on classical guitar, you’re hearing music of that precise moment. He has many influences (and there are as many poets, philosophers and thinkers as there are musicians) but his original inspiration for pure invention is Keith Jarrett.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JackDeSalvo #KeithJarrett #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
There’s a school of thought among some jazz musicians that you should learn all you can– study, practice, master every scale and every mode– and then on the bandstand you leave all that behind and simply play, as a child plays. No one embodies this ideal more than Keith Jarrett; he is renowned for sitting down at the piano with absolutely no preconceived idea of what he is going to play. What emerges is a spontaneous composition. When you listen to Jack DeSalvo, it’s immediately apparent that he has an enormous musical vocabulary. Renaissance classical, garage rock, straight ahead jazz, downtown skronk and traditional mandolin melodies are all part of his musical DNA. But when you hear DeSalvo improvise on classical guitar, you’re hearing music of that precise moment. He has many influences (and there are as many poets, philosophers and thinkers as there are musicians) but his original inspiration for pure invention is Keith Jarrett.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JackDeSalvo #KeithJarrett #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
There’s a school of thought among some jazz musicians that you should learn all you can– study, practice, master every scale and every mode– and then on the bandstand you leave all that behind and simply play, as a child plays. No one embodies this ideal more than Keith Jarrett; he is renowned for sitting down at the piano with absolutely no preconceived idea of what he is going to play. What emerges is a spontaneous composition.
When you listen to Jack DeSalvo, it’s immediately apparent that he has an enormous musical vocabulary. Renaissance classical, garage rock, straight ahead jazz, downtown skronk and traditional mandolin melodies are all part of his musical DNA. But when you hear DeSalvo improvise on classical guitar, you’re hearing music of that precise moment. He has many influences (and there are as many poets, philosophers and thinkers as there are musicians) but his original inspiration for pure invention is Keith Jarrett.
WKCR #DeepFocus #JackDeSalvo #KeithJarrett #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get at least 3 opinions. Unless, that is, you ask them about George Coleman. If they say anything about this assassin of the tenor saxophone that is less than panegyrical then they just don’t know what they’re talking about (and you can tell them we said so!). One person who we know won’t give us any argument about this is organist Brian Charette. Big George is on the album that Brian released at the time of this broadcast from 2018.
WKCR #DeepFocus #BrianCharette #GeorgeColeman #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get at least 3 opinions. Unless, that is, you ask them about George Coleman. If they say anything about this assassin of the tenor saxophone that is less than panegyrical then they just don’t know what they’re talking about (and you can tell them we said so!). One person who we know won’t give us any argument about this is organist Brian Charette. Big George is on the album that Brian released at the time of this broadcast from 2019.
WKCR #DeepFocus #BrianCharette #GeorgeColeman #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get at least 3 opinions. Unless, that is, you ask them about George Coleman. If they say anything about this assassin of the tenor saxophone that is less than panegyrical then they just don’t know what they’re talking about (and you can tell them I said so!). One person who I know won’t give us any argument about this is organist Brian Charette. Big George is on the album that Brian released at the time of this broadcast from 2018.
WKCR #DeepFocus #BrianCharette #GeorgeColeman #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get at least 3 opinions. Unless, that is, you ask them about George Coleman. If they say anything about this assassin of the tenor saxophone that is less than panegyrical then they just don’t know what they’re talking about (and you can tell them we said so!). One person who we know won’t give us any argument about this is organist Brian Charette. Big George is on the album that Brian released at the time of this broadcast from 2019.
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Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and Cannonball Adderley. He didn’t look like anyone else and he sure didn’t sound like anyone else: he’s playing an oboe? What’s an arghul? What is this guy all about? He answered these questions with several dozen distinguished albums on most of the leading Jazz labels between the late Fifties and the late Seventies.
Then he seemed to take a tight turn. He moved to Nigeria for several years and then returned to the US in the mid-Eighties, leading a second career as an educator. But he never stopped making music, releasing nearly as many records— now on his own YAL label—as he did in his early years. This second career stretched on longer than the first, ending with his death in 2013, but remains largely unknown to the wider public.
Throughout this second career, among his closest collaborators was percussionist and bandleader Adam Rudolph. Adam will share personal stories and first-hand insights from his years with this master musician. Join host Mitch Goldman for a rebroadcast of this Deep Focus from 2019.
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Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and Cannonball Adderley. He didn’t look like anyone else and he sure didn’t sound like anyone else: he’s playing an oboe? What’s an arghul? What is this guy all about? He answered these questions with several dozen distinguished albums on most of the leading Jazz labels between the late Fifties and the late Seventies.
Then he seemed to take a tight turn. He moved to Nigeria for several years and then returned to the US in the mid-Eighties, leading a second career as an educator. But he never stopped making music, releasing nearly as many records— now on his own YAL label—as he did in his early years. This second career stretched on longer than the first, ending with his death in 2013, but remains largely unknown to the wider public.
Throughout this second career, among his closest collaborators was percussionist and bandleader Adam Rudolph. Adam will share personal stories and first-hand insights from his years with this master musician. Join host Mitch Goldman for a rebroadcast of this Deep Focus from 2019.
WKCR #DeepFocus #AdamRudolph #YusefLateef #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and Cannonball Adderley. He didn’t look like anyone else and he sure didn’t sound like anyone else: he’s playing an oboe? What’s an arghul? What is this guy all about? He answered these questions with several dozen distinguished albums on most of the leading Jazz labels between the late Fifties and the late Seventies.
Then he seemed to take a tight turn. He moved to Nigeria for several years and then returned to the US in the mid-Eighties, leading a second career as an educator. But he never stopped making music, releasing nearly as many records— now on his own YAL label—as he did in his early years. This second career stretched on longer than the first, ending with his death in 2013, but remains largely unknown to the wider public.
Throughout this second career, among his closest collaborators was percussionist and bandleader Adam Rudolph. Adam will share personal stories and first-hand insights from his years with this master musician. Join host Mitch Goldman for a rebroadcast of this Deep Focus from 2019.
WKCR #DeepFocus #AdamRudolph #YusefLateef #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
We have gotten all excited about “Big Data” in recent years, this idea that knowledge can be gleaned from a large pool of info if you have the proper tools to study it. I suspect that corporations and the media borrowed the concept from the practice of hardcore music lovers like reedman Ras Moshe. Find out what I mean: Big data indeed!
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We have gotten all excited about “Big Data” in recent years, this idea that knowledge can be gleaned from a large pool of info if you have the proper tools to study it. I suspect that corporations and the media borrowed the concept from the practice of hardcore music lovers like reedman Ras Moshe. Find out what I mean: Big data indeed!
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Saxophonist Eric Person and I have been listening to music together for over 3 decades. We both love a musician who is The Total Package. - You need to know the entire history of the music inside and out; - You have to write, play and lead a band at the highest level; - You gotta have chops on your instrument that make the other cats' heads spin; - You need to be able to entertain a crowd, whether they came to hear some smokin' jazz or just canoodle in the back row. If you can do one or two of those things really well, you're a total monster. But how many can do ALL of them as well as anyone? We can debate it all night but when day breaks, it's still going to be a pretty short list. One name that's going to be near the top: Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Eric Person joined me at WKCR for a Deep Focus on Rahsaan in January of 2011. Once again, the WKCR archives did not fail. Treasures abound! Subscribe to the podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
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Saxophonist Eric Person and I have been listening to music together for over 3 decades. We both love a musician who is The Total Package. - You need to know the entire history of the music inside and out; - You have to write, play and lead a band at the highest level; - You gotta have chops on your instrument that make the other cats' heads spin; - You need to be able to entertain a crowd, whether they came to hear some smokin' jazz or just canoodle in the back row. If you can do one or two of those things really well, you're a total monster. But how many can do ALL of them as well as anyone? We can debate it all night but when day breaks, it's still going to be a pretty short list. One name that's going to be near the top: Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Eric Person joined me at WKCR for a Deep Focus on Rahsaan in January of 2011. Once again, the WKCR archives did not fail. Treasures abound! Subscribe to the podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #EricPerson #RahsaaanRolandKirk #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Saxophonist Eric Person and I have been listening to music together for over 3 decades. We both love a musician who is The Total Package. - You need to know the entire history of the music inside and out; - You have to write, play and lead a band at the highest level; - You gotta have chops on your instrument that make the other cats' heads spin; - You need to be able to entertain a crowd, whether they came to hear some smokin' jazz or just canoodle in the back row. If you can do one or two of those things really well, you're a total monster. But how many can do ALL of them as well as anyone? We can debate it all night but when day breaks, it's still going to be a pretty short list. One name that's going to be near the top: Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Eric Person joined me at WKCR for a Deep Focus on Rahsaan in January of 2011. Once again, the WKCR archives did not fail. Treasures abound! Subscribe to the podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #EricPerson #RahsaaanRolandKirk #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
The lineage: you are required to know everything that has come before you but you are also required, when in the act of creation, to let that all go and simply be present in the moment. That is the way Milford Graves does it (and has done it since he played drums with our avatar Albert Ayler in the Sixties) and that is the way drummer William Hooker does it. Rare live recordings, first-hand insights and you.
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The lineage: you are required to know everything that has come before you but you are also required, when in the act of creation, to let that all go and simply be present in the moment. That is the way Milford Graves does it (and has done it since he played drums with our avatar Albert Ayler in the Sixties) and that is the way drummer William Hooker does it. Rare live recordings, first-hand insights and you.
WilliamHooker #MilfordGraves #WKCR #DeepFocus #Deep_Focus_Podcast #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #LiveJazz #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
The lineage: you are required to know everything that has come before you but you are also required, when in the act of creation, to let that all go and simply be present in the moment. That is the way Milford Graves does it (and has done it since he played drums with our avatar Albert Ayler in the Sixties) and that is the way drummer William Hooker does it. Rare live recordings, first-hand insights and you.
WilliamHooker #MilfordGraves #WKCR #DeepFocus #Deep_Focus_Podcast #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #LiveJazz #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
There aren’t many of them, those voices that can just reach down inside of you. If you heard Jimmy Scott sing, you knew that you were in the presence of something extraordinarily rare and precious. How many other people can you name who sang on a Top Ten hit, left the scene for 40 years and came back bigger and better than ever? (NONE, that’s how many!). Vocalist Nora McCarthy heard Jimmy Scott, deep in her soul. In fact, she hears him still.
There aren’t many of them, those voices that can just reach down inside of you. If you heard Jimmy Scott sing, you knew that you were in the presence of something extraordinarily rare and precious. How many other people can you name who sang on a Top Ten hit, left the scene for 40 years and came back bigger and better than ever? (NONE, that’s how many!). Vocalist Nora McCarthy heard Jimmy Scott, deep in her soul. In fact, she hears him still.
There aren’t many of them, those voices that can just reach down inside of you. If you heard Jimmy Scott sing, you knew that you were in the presence of something extraordinarily rare and precious. How many other people can you name who sang on a Top Ten hit, left the scene for 40 years and came back bigger and better than ever? (NONE, that’s how many!). Vocalist Nora McCarthy heard Jimmy Scott, deep in her soul. In fact, she hears him still.
Notes? There's only 12 of 'em! How much can you do with that? More to the point, is there a way to approach them that hasn't been worked to death already? Of course there is; there always is. But can you do it in a way that's passionate and sincere? Can you tell a story that's new and fascinating? Can you initiate a conversation that is cultivated and revealing? You can if your name is Matthew Shipp; he does that again and again and again. And who does Matt look to as one of his musical forebears? The names of Paul Bley, Steve Swallow and Jimmy Giuffre may not be household names these days (if they ever were) but they should be. I mean, they are in Matt's house, maybe yours too.
Notes? There's only 12 of 'em! How much can you do with that? More to the point, is there a way to approach them that hasn't been worked to death already? Of course there is; there always is. But can you do it in a way that's passionate and sincere? Can you tell a story that's new and fascinating? Can you initiate a conversation that is cultivated and revealing? You can if your name is Matthew Shipp; he does that again and again and again. And who does Matt look to as one of his musical forebears? The names of Paul Bley, Steve Swallow and Jimmy Giuffre may not be household names these days (if they ever were) but they should be. I mean, they are in Matt's house, maybe yours too.
Notes? There's only 12 of 'em! How much can you do with that? More to the point, is there a way to approach them that hasn't been worked to death already? Of course there is; there always is. But can you do it in a way that's passionate and sincere? Can you tell a story that's new and fascinating? Can you initiate a conversation that is cultivated and revealing? You can if your name is Matthew Shipp; he does that again and again and again. And who does Matt look to as one of his musical forebears? The names of Paul Bley, Steve Swallow and Jimmy Giuffre may not be household names these days (if they ever were) but they should be. I mean, they are in Matt's house, maybe yours too.
The moment after a new art form emerges, it becomes codified; original ideas quickly devolve to cliches; bold discoverers give way to those who can reliably be called upon to fulfill expectations, rather than defy them. Jazz rock fusion ended up becoming one of the most predictably bland forms of music ever devised but what were its early days like? What was it like to be a fly on the wall as rockers discovered that they could play with expanded form and technical achievement? And what did it feel like when jazz musicians found out that they could plug in? Vernon Reid and I have some answers.
The moment after a new art form emerges, it becomes codified; original ideas quickly devolve to cliches; bold discoverers give way to those who can reliably be called upon to fulfill expectations, rather than defy them. Jazz rock fusion ended up becoming one of the most predictably bland forms of music ever devised but what were its early days like? What was it like to be a fly on the wall as rockers discovered that they could play with expanded form and technical achievement? And what did it feel like when jazz musicians found out that they could plug in? Vernon Reid and I have some answers.
The moment after a new art form emerges, it becomes codified; original ideas quickly devolve to cliches; bold discoverers give way to those who can reliablybe called upon to fulfill expectations, rather than defy them. Jazz rock fusion ended up becoming one of the most predictably bland forms of music ever devised but what were its early days like? What was it like to be a fly on the wall as rockers discovered that they could play with expanded form and technical achievement? And what did it feel like when jazz musicians found out that they could plug in? Vernon Reid and I have some answers.
Trombonist Craig Harris was an aspiring student in the early Seventies when he encountered Charles Mingus’s then-current quintet. Mingus had a trio of young incendiary devices— pianist Don Pullen, tenor man George Adams and baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett— playing with him and his stalwart drummer, Dannie Richmond. This did not sound like Goodbye Pork Pie Hat! What happened on stage was unprecedented free improvisation with all of the craft and imagination of Mingus’s greatest bands. Craig Harris was hooked: he knew what he needed to do and he has been doing it ever since. He waited for that band to make a record but they never did. Craig has been waiting for the emergence of that music for 40 years.
It’s time.
Trombonist Craig Harris was an aspiring student in the early Seventies when he encountered Charles Mingus’s then-current quintet. Mingus had a trio of young incendiary devices— pianist Don Pullen, tenor man George Adams and baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett— playing with him and his stalwart drummer, Dannie Richmond. This did not sound like Goodbye Pork Pie Hat! What happened on stage was unprecedented free improvisation with all of the craft and imagination of Mingus’s greatest bands. Craig Harris was hooked: he knew what he needed to do and he has been doing it ever since. He waited for that band to make a record but they never did. Craig has been waiting for the emergence of that music for 40 years.
It’s time.
Hey, Bernstein, who was Don Cherry to you? Was he a “hero”? Was he a “role model”? What happened when you met him? What is unmistakably unique about Don Cherry? On Deep Focus Monday February 3, I will ask trumpeter/composer Steven Bernstein these questions. Then again, maybe we’ll just listen to some great Don Cherry music that you’ve never heard. Eh, maybe a little of each. Come find out.