Author: Mitchspam
2016.07.18 Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin
Rebroadcast April 26, 2021.
Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension [...]
2017.04.03 Phillip Johnston on Steve Lacy
Rebroadcast April 12, 2021.
In the Jazz world, Steve Lacy is like Broadway: doesn't fit neatly into the grid but, wherever he intersects it, magical things [...]
2017.02.17 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes at Birdland
Rebroadcast March 22, 2021.
Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that [...]
2015.05.25 Brandon Ross on Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet
Rebroadcast March 15, 2021.
A band cannot be a great band if it doesn't have its own distinctive sound. The sonorities of the instruments and the writing are [...]
2016.02.15 Melvin Gibbs on Lester Bowie
Rebroadcast March 8, 2021.
Melvin Gibbs knows a thing or two about how much freight can be conveyed by a thunderous ensemble moving at full throttle as well as [...]
2015.08.31 Bill Ware on Horace Silver
Rebroadcast February 8, 2021.
Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in this rebroadcast from 2015. [...]
2018.02.19 Eric Person on Geri Allen
Rebroadcast November 16, 2020.
Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as [...]
2017.03.06 Eric Person on Woody Shaw
Rebroadcast November 2, 2020.
In the Jazz world of utterly distinctive individuals, trumpeter Woody Shaw still managed to stand out. He didn’t speak like [...]
2014.06.30 Lezlie Harrison on Abbey Lincoln
Rebroadcast October 26, 2020.
Vocalist Lezlie Harrison is my guest for a Deep Focus on Abbey Lincoln. Achingly beautiful recordings of Abbey that you have [...]
2017.09.04 Henry Threadgill on Thelonious Monk
Rebroadcast October 19, 2020.
“Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.” Thelonious Monk said those words; Henry Threadgill [...]