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.
2022.11.28 Vernon Reid on Carlos Santana
In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same [...]
2022.10.31 Eric Person on Lester Bowie
"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb. Here's one definition: to [...]
2015.12.08 Don McKenzie on Last Exit
Rebroadcast October 24, 2022.
This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm), Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a [...]
2022.09.26 William Hooker on Pharaoh Sanders – Memorial Broadcast
No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did. William Hooker heard the call through the [...]
22.09.19 Gary Lucas on Abdullah Ibrahim
Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather [...]
2022.09.05 Graham Haynes on Bill Dixon
Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an [...]
2022.08.08 Ben Tyree on Pat Martino
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020. Guitarist/sonic architect [...]
October 28, 2019 – Ben Tyree on Vernon Reid
This I love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject. It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: [...]
2018.03.19 William Hooker on Sunny Murray
Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music. In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow [...]
2015.10.26 Ben Perowsky on Miles Davis
This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer / bandleader Ben Perowsky. They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in [...]