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2015.10.26 Ben Perowsky on Miles Davis

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer / bandleader Ben Perowsky.  They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in [...]

2015.02.09 Andy Caploe on Sonny Rollins

Rebroadcast March 28, 2022. I know you think of me as the on-air host at WKCR 89.9FM on Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm but the truth is that I have only been [...]

2017.11.13 Adam Rudolph on Big Black, Mtume

Rebroadcast January 17, 2022. The hand and the drum: after the human voice, probably the original musical instrument. But the question tonight on Deep Focus is [...]

2016.06.20 Brian Charette on Keith Emerson

Rebroadcast November 1, 2021. Seventies prog: bloated arena rock or informed, impassioned, challenging music featuring blazing chops and mind [...]

2017.08.07 William Hooker on Don Pullen

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Rebroadcast October 18, 2021. I love the conversations that ensue when I invite an artist to appear on Deep Focus. Drummer/conceptualist William Hooker is a [...]

2016.10.10 Vijay Iyer on Thelonious Monk

Rebroadcast October 4, 2021. It's a special Thelonious Monk birthday week Deep Focus from 2016 with host Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist Vijay [...]

2014.11.17 Vernon Reid on Jack Bruce

Rebroadcast July 12, 2021. When musicians talk about their "influences," it's not always about a harmonic or rhythmic choice that another musician made. [...]

2015.06.08 Craig Harris on Sun Ra

Rebroadcast July 5, 2021. Since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, his star just seems to continue to brighten. Not only do his musical ideas grow in relevance [...]

2016.08.01 Oren Bloedow on Defunkt

Rebroadcast May 17, 2021. On the next Deep Focus, the band that rewrote all the rules, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt. Bassist Oren Bloedow joins host Mitch Goldman, [...]

2017.06.12 Ben Perowsky on Al Foster

Rebroadcast May 10, 2021. People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The [...]
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