Author: Rosie
Ginger Baker
“Mitch, this is Ginger Baker.” It’s April 7, 1987 and we are at the Cafe Central in Cologne, West Germany. I am on the road with Ronald [...]
August 19, 2019 – Ben Tyree on Frank Zappa
Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Weather Report... All created challenging instrumental music in the Seventies, all had large, dedicated [...]
June 24, 2019 – Brian Charette on Duke Ellington
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 [...]
2019.05.13 Arturo O’Farrill on Steely Dan
Rebroadcast January 11, 2021.
Arturo O'Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in [...]
Carnegie Hall Salutes The Jazz Masters
This show, 25 years ago this month, marked the start of my career in TV. I knocked myself out for this program, working on it exclusively for 5 months. A very [...]
April 15, 2019 – Craig Harris on Charles Mingus
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 [...]
Tortilla Flats
Can't you tell she just won Bingo at Tortilla Flats? I would say that I've been going to this joint for 35 years but that would be a lie. The truth is that we [...]
June 11, 2018
Gary Bartz has achieved legend status several times over. For some, of course, merely having been in one of Miles Davis’s great touring and recording bands [...]
Lorraine Gordon
Sad to hear of the passing of Lorraine Gordon, proprietor of the greatest Jazz club in the world, the Village Vanguard. Lorraine used to call me during my [...]
April 2, 2018
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 [...]