Podcasts

You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, Podcast Republic and many other podcast hosts.

https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

I hope you don’t mind but these podcasts are not fully produced the way they would be if they were originally created for this format.  They are derived from raw recordings of the live radio broadcast which were sometimes compromised by equipment failures or the absence of a dedicated production staff.  This means that there might be more abrupt starts and stops than you may expect, missing content, etc.  You might also hear things like guests talking about upcoming gigs which, sadly, are no longer upcoming.

I hope that doesn’t distract you because there is a ton of great stuff to discover here, with more coming online all the time.   I have hundreds of hours of these broadcasts so they should be rolling out for some time to come.

If you like the show, please subscribe and rate it.   That will help others to discover the pleasures that you have found.

If you would like to search for a particular episode that you may have missed or would like to hear again, pop over to the “About Deep Focus” page.

Enjoy!

“Bebop” written by Dizzy Gillespie. Used by Permission.

2024.12.23 Arturo O’Farrill on Carla Bley

Arturo O'Farrill: "Without Carla (Bley)’s influence, I wouldn’t be where I am today; there would be no Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, no Belongó, no Arturo [...]

2024.11.25 Leon Gruenbaum on Burnt Sugar

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is renowned for "...never playing anything the same way once." Drawing inspiration from Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, [...]

2024.10.14 Ken Wessel on Badal Roy

Here's another Ph.D. topic for you: Miles Davis vs. Ornette Coleman. Both blazingly original innovators lived most of their lives in Manhattan and they were [...]

2024.09.16 Lewis “Flip” Barnes on William Parker

Let's present an award: who would you say has been the most prolific artist on NYC's forward-looking music scene and who has contributed the most to [...]

2024.08.19 Melvin Gibbs on Sun Ra

Tonight (8/19) bassist/composer Melvin Gibbs joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra with unheard rarities from the WKCR archives.  [...]

2024.07.08 Matt Garrison on Miles Davis 1981

People love to talk about Miles Davis reinventing himself and reinventing the music.  They talk about the First Great Quintet in the fifties, the [...]

2024.06.24 Eric Person on Art Blakey

Listen to any song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.  There will be no question in your mind about who is driving the bus or who is riding on [...]

2024.06.10 Vernon Reid on Gil Scott-Heron

We don't hear enough about Gil Scott-Heron these days.  And when we do, we often get the same few crumbs: his invention of a sort of proto-hiphop, some [...]

2024.05.13 Gary Lucas on Rahsaan Roland Kirk

"Who has the hippest chops in the world?"  If you're going to ask that question on a record, you had better have the nuts to back it up.  I mean, [...]

2024.03.18 Graham Haynes on Woody Shaw

What confers greatness?  There are many pathways, the most obvious being distinctive playing.  Are there others?  What about brilliant [...]
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