Author: Rosie
2013.10.07 Vijay Iyer on Andrew Hill
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 [...]
2012.06.04 Eric Person on the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rebroadcast June 14, 2021.
Sometimes there's a fantastic narrative behind these Deep Focus programs and sometimes we are simply reveling in glorious, [...]
2012.04.09 Roy Weinberger on Jaki Byard
Rebroadcast June 7, 2021.
This week's show is a Deep Focus unlike any other. It's actually more like one of those sports movies in which The Kid gets to [...]
November 25, 2019 – Pheeroan akLaff on Jack DeJohnette
Rebroadcast May 31, 2021.
How many drummers changed the whole conversation, just with their playing? Like, to the point that they became the North Star [...]
2011.12.05 Graham Haynes on Miles Davis 1973-75
Rebroadcast May 24, 2021.
Want a hot-button issue for a Jazz listener? Just mention "electric Miles." If you really want to get them going, talk about the [...]
2016.09.12 Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2 of 2
Rebroadcast May 3, 2021.
Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: Unheard recordings from the One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? [...]
2018.10.15 Gary Lucas on Charles Mingus
Rebroadcast April 19, 2021.
If tenor saxophone giant Lester Young said someone has "big ears" it was a high compliment. It meant they were hearing everything [...]
2012.02.06 Jorge Sylvester on Jimmy Lyons
Rebroadcast April 5, 2021.
The subject that a guest chooses for an episode of Deep Focus tells me something about who the guest is. When Jorge Sylvester, [...]
2014.02.17 William Hooker on Larry Young
Rebroadcast March 29, 2021.
As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part [...]