Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivalled radio programming or his grammy-winning [...]
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivaled radio programming or his Grammy-winning [...]
Rebroadcast August 23, 2021.
Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to [...]
Rebroadcast August 16, 2021.
This is part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013. Melvin Gibbs opens up about [...]
"He sucked all the air out of the room and turned it back into this wonderful... fragrance." That's Ronald Shannon Jackson talking about Albert Ayler, his [...]
Rebroadcast August 2, 2021.
The music of hunger: how much soul can you squeeze out of a string and a piece of wood or a hunk of metal? It’s one of the great [...]
Rebroadcast July 19, 2021.
How is it possible for the hitting of a drum to convey a sense of awe? A feeling of absolute splendor? A state of moral [...]
Rebroadcast June 28, 2021.
What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have [...]
Rebroadcast June 21, 2021.
Sometimes you have to take all the furniture out of the room to see what it really looks like and to decide what belongs in [...]
Rebroadcast June 14, 2021.
Sometimes there's a fantastic narrative behind these Deep Focus programs and sometimes we are simply reveling in glorious, [...]