Author: Rosie

2013.08.26 Eric Person on Wayne Shorter

Oh, the riches!  Not only a Deep Focus on Wayne Shorter's then-recent work with his Quartet, not only the inspired and inspiring Eric Person as Mitch [...]

2014.05.26 Eric Person on Sun Ra

It's after the end of the world.  Don't you know that yet?  Host Mitch Goldman and saxophonist Eric Person put Sun Ra in Deep Focus tonight (5/2) on WKCR [...]

August 5, 2019 – Michael Dorf on Sonny Sharrock

Rebroadcast April 11, 2022. This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between [...]

2011.08.15 Pheeroan akLaff on Coltrane and Miles in Japan

Rebroadcast February 28, 2022. The music I love has porous boundaries.  If the audience responds to what they hear, the musicians will give that energy [...]

2019.09.16 David Virelles on Bud Powell

Rebroadcast February 14, 2022. You know what's wrong with this country?  We don't spend enough time talking about pianist Bud Powell.  Well, this Monday [...]

2018.12.10 Melvin Gibbs on the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Rebroadcast January 3, 2022. Melvin Gibbs is hearing things that I am not hearing yet. I know this from the choices he makes as a bassist, his work as a [...]

2014.04.28 Adam Rudolph on the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Rebroadcast December 13, 2021. Let's keep the dance alive! The last episode of Deep Focus had us listening to live recordings of The Art Ensemble of [...]

2013.04.18 Daniel Sadownick on the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Rebroadcast November 29, 2021. What is the Art Ensemble of Chicago?   Are they a band or are they an omen, a signpost marking a new direction [...]

2017.10.02 Reggie Sylvester on Bern Nix

Rebroadcast November 15, 2021. "You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right [...]

Melvin Van Peebles

The most interesting man in the world?  You won’t find him in a beer commercial.  Until yesterday, he lived right across the street from me.  [...]
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