Month: May 2020
2013.11.13 Roy Campbell on Woody Shaw
Rebroadcast September 27, 2021.
Wanna talk trumpet? Roy Campbell spills the beans in this one. The inside stories on Woody Shaw I expected, but Lee [...]
2020.02.03- Steven Bernstein on Don Cherry
Rebroadcast 2020.05.18.
Hey, Bernstein, who was Don Cherry to you? Was he a "hero"? Was he a "role model"? What happened when you met [...]
Jerry Stiller
In memoriam Jerry Stiller:
Time: July 1988.
Place: backstage at the Delacorte Theater, Central Park, NYC, on line for catering.
Me: "I just have to [...]
2016.03.28 Will Calhoun on Elvin Jones
Rebroadcast 2020.05.11
Tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM Mitch Goldman hosts drummer Will Calhoun for a Deep Focus on their mutual hero, Elvin Jones. [...]
Little Richard
Michael of Washington, DC writes in to say, “Waiting for stories about Little Richard…” Well, yeah, I have one or two.
I spent the whole summer of [...]
2019.09.02 – Eric Person on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast May 4, 2020.
Composer/bandleader Eric Person learned his craft from some of boldest who ever played the game. Dave Holland was an [...]