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.
2014.11.17 Vernon Reid on Jack Bruce
Rebroadcast July 12, 2021.
When musicians talk about their "influences," it's not always about a harmonic or rhythmic choice that another musician made. [...]
2015.06.08 Craig Harris on Sun Ra
Rebroadcast July 5, 2021.
Since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, his star just seems to continue to brighten. Not only do his musical ideas grow in relevance [...]
2018.03.05 Steven Bernstein on Roswell Rudd
Rebroadcast June 28, 2021.
What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have [...]
2013.10.07 Vijay Iyer on Andrew Hill
Rebroadcast June 21, 2021.
Sometimes you have to take all the furniture out of the room to see what it really looks like and to decide what belongs in [...]
2012.06.04 Eric Person on the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rebroadcast June 14, 2021.
Sometimes there's a fantastic narrative behind these Deep Focus programs and sometimes we are simply reveling in glorious, [...]
2012.04.09 Roy Weinberger on Jaki Byard
Rebroadcast June 7, 2021.
This week's show is a Deep Focus unlike any other. It's actually more like one of those sports movies in which The Kid gets to [...]
November 25, 2019 – Pheeroan akLaff on Jack DeJohnette
Rebroadcast May 31, 2021.
How many drummers changed the whole conversation, just with their playing? Like, to the point that they became the North Star [...]
2011.12.05 Graham Haynes on Miles Davis 1973-75
Rebroadcast May 24, 2021.
Want a hot-button issue for a Jazz listener? Just mention "electric Miles." If you really want to get them going, talk about the [...]
2016.08.01 Oren Bloedow on Defunkt
Rebroadcast May 17, 2021.
On the next Deep Focus, the band that rewrote all the rules, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt. Bassist Oren Bloedow joins host Mitch Goldman, [...]
2017.06.12 Ben Perowsky on Al Foster
Rebroadcast May 10, 2021.
People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The [...]