2011.09.12 Vernon Reid on Weather Report

Rebroadcast on December 14, 2020.

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.  


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