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.
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 [...]
2023.07.24 Ahmed Abdullah and Monique Ngozi Nri on Sun Ra, Abbey Lincoln
The future that Sun Ra sang of has arrived in so many ways. No one knows this better than the musicians who made the music with him. Ahmed [...]
2023.07.10 William Hooker on Joseph Jarman
Who was Joseph Jarman? A shaman? A conjurer? A Buddhist priest? A poet? An Aikido sensei? In the words of his fellow [...]
2023.06.12 Vijay Iyer on McCoy Tyner
Yes, I am starting to see the pattern! Vijay Iyer has joined Mitch Goldman for Deep Focus programs on Andrew Hill, Thelonious Monk, and Geri [...]
2023.05.29 William Parker on Don Cherry
William Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music. More than that, he is a [...]
2023.05.08 Mark Whitfield on Wes Montgomery
When the centennial of an artist as singular and inventive and influential and expressive as Wes Montgomery passes, one Deep Focus is not enough. [...]
2023.05.01 Daniel Sadownick on Andrew Cyrille
This Monday (5/1) Jazz Alternatives presents Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on Andrew Cyrille with guest Daniel Sadownick.
Take a stroll [...]
2023.03.20 Ras Moshe on Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to [...]
2023.03.06 Rodney Jones on Wes Montgomery
For my guitar freeks, plectrists, six-string slingers and hammer-oners, you have to hear this episode of Deep Focus! For this one, recorded on the night of [...]
2023.01.09 Brian Charette on Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the [...]