Author: Rosie
2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young
If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game. Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time [...]
2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer
What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid and [...]
2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum Road
Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be? Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those [...]
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 [...]