Podcasts
You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, Podcast Republic and many other podcast hosts.
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.
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Enjoy!
“Bebop” written by Dizzy Gillespie. Used by Permission.
2026.03.02 Eric Person on Eddie Harris – part 2 with Ethan Singer
This episode of Deep Focus has been decades in the making. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman started DJing Monday nights at WKCR in 1985. At that [...]
2026.02.16 Steve Slagle on Charlie Haden
The music, the people playing it, and the audience are all in a state of total oneness. It's a spontaneous improvisation as delicate as an [...]
2026.01.19 Mazz Swift on Butch Morris
Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an [...]
2026.01.05 Jay Rodriguez on Jim Pepper
Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about [...]
2025.12.22 Will Calhoun on Jack DeJohnette
Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was [...]
2025.11.24 Henry Threadgill on Ahmad Jamal
Listen to Henry Threadgill's music. What a phantasmagoria of splendors and esoterica must animate his mind! Don't you just want to go to that [...]
2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray
Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there. The [...]
2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young
If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game. Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time [...]
2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer
What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid and [...]
2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum Road
Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be? Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those [...]