Author: Rosie

2022.12.12 David Soldier on Miles Davis 1974

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12/22) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier.  Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the [...]

2022.11.28 Vernon Reid on Carlos Santana

In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same [...]

2022.10.31 Eric Person on Lester Bowie

"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb.  Here's one definition: to [...]

2015.12.08 Don McKenzie on Last Exit

Rebroadcast October 24, 2022. This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm), Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a [...]

2022.09.26 William Hooker on Pharaoh Sanders – Memorial Broadcast

No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did.  William Hooker heard the call through the [...]

22.09.19 Gary Lucas on Abdullah Ibrahim

Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather [...]

2022.09.05 Graham Haynes on Bill Dixon

Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an [...]

2022.08.08 Ben Tyree on Pat Martino

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020.  Guitarist/sonic architect [...]

October 28, 2019 – Ben Tyree on Vernon Reid

This I love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject.  It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: [...]

2018.03.19 William Hooker on Sunny Murray

Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music.   In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow [...]
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