Rebroadcast June 7, 2021.
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.
It’s on the Deep Focus podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
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Photo credit: Jaki Byard By Source, Fair use en.wikipedia.org-w-index.php-curid=50315026