Author: Rosie
2025.08.18 Bob Dee on Jef Lee Johnson
How is it possible that you have never heard guitarist Jef Lee Johnson? He was as incendiary and as nakedly original as any soloist you have ever heard [...]
2025.07.21 Jean-Paul Bourelly
This is a rare treat: a former subject of Deep Focus becomes the guest. In 2016, drummer Will Calhoun was our guest for a Deep Focus on one of his [...]
Marcia Resnick
Marcia Resnick took this picture of me back in the eighties. It’s got a bit of that era’s glam to it, no? Like a Vuarnet sunglasses ad in a French fashion [...]
2025.05.26 Uri Caine on Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock Duets
In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Both were in their thirties, [...]
2025.05.12 Eric Person on Eddie Harris
"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all that [...]
2025.04.28 Henry Threadgill on Ahmad Jamal
Henry Threadgill's music sounds so magnificently unbounded that you might think he wouldn't spin tales about the music in the nightlife of the south side of [...]
2025.03.24 Vijay Iyer on Randy Weston
It's impossible to distinguish between Randy Weston's musical innovations and his conception of the world he was born into. To say that the roots of jazz [...]
2025.02.17 Steven Bernstein on “The Don Cherry Tapes” part 2
This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR. Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent [...]
2025.02.01 Eric Person on Arthur Blythe
On our previous Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman and his guest, saxophonist Eric Person explored the work of the David Murray Octet of the 1980s. Here was [...]
2025.01.20 Uri Caine on Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock
In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Both were in their thirties, [...]