Author: Rosie

2019.12.09 – Ben Tyree on Harriet Tubman

Rebroadcast 2020.03.30. Throw guitarist Ben Tyree some meat.*  He wants to hear a band that will shred the genres and categories, explode [...]

Hal Willner

The news of Hal Willner’s death shut me down for a couple of days.  This was not supposed to happen.  Hal Willner was not supposed to die at 64 [...]

Manu Dibango

Man, the hits just keep on coming; another of my former employers has left the planet.  Manu Dibango has succumbed to the Coronavirus in Paris at age 86. [...]

Eric Weissberg

I don't know if you know the name, "Eric Weissberg" but, if you love music, you should.  Eric was certainly best known for creating one of the biggest [...]

March 2, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard

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 [...]

Elvis Presley

Of all the bizarro TV shoots I worked on, this one might have taken the cake.  In October of 1994 we shot a 60th birthday tribute to Elvis Presley for [...]

Elvis Presley

No, I never met The King but I did work on a TV show dedicated to him. Of all the bizarro TV shoots I worked on, this one might have taken the cake. In [...]

Joseph Shabalala

Sad news out of South Africa today with the passing of Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. After getting my diploma from Harmolodic High School, I [...]

January 20, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard

THIS BROADCAST HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE JIMMY HEATH MEMORIAL BROADCAST. IT IS BEING RE-SCHEDULED. We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as [...]

2017.02.20 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes

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, [...]
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