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.
2024.02.19 Frank London on Mongezi Feza
The stories that Black South African musicians tell about life under apartheid are searing. Such oppressive and demeaning conditions are difficult to [...]
2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock
Not all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does. So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday [...]
2024.01.22 Steven Bernstein on “The Don Cherry Tapes”
Tonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR. Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch [...]
2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Andrew Hill
This music is at its best when the artist is telling you exactly who they are. Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal [...]
2023.11.27 Tru Born (Anthony Michael Peterson) on “Finding the thread”
"Rock." "Jazz." "Classical." "Blues." We rarely question the value of categorizing music. These words are handy buckets to drop songs into: "I [...]
2023.10.09 Matthew Shipp on Albert Ayler
There is a point at which the usefulness of language ends. You are simply not going to be able to express in words the sense of awe that you feel when [...]
2023.09.25 Henry Threadgill on John Gilmore and Von Freeman
"Easily Slip Into Another World," Henry Threadgill's recent memoir, is required reading for a full appreciation of tonight's Deep Focus. It reveals the [...]
2023.09.04 Craig Harris on Sam Rivers
In the sixties, they explained evolution to us with that March of Progress illustration, a lockstep development from the proto-human Dryopithecus to modern [...]
2023.08.21 Roy Nathanson on Eric Dolphy
If Eric Dolphy's music were a school of painting it would be analytical cubism: planar and angular, multi-directional and austere, But it's not [...]
2023.08.07 Steven Bernstein and Scotty Hard on Miles Davis 1970
You're Miles Davis. It's March of 1970 and you're about to release Bitches Brew, your most incendiary album yet. You have an electric band of [...]