Radio Broadcasts
Plans are in the works to make podcasts available for current as well as past episodes of Deep Focus. In the mean time, please tune in Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm EDT at 89.9FM in New York or wkcr.org.
These are descriptions of past radio broadcasts that have not yet been posted as available podcasts.
2019.04.01 – Adam Rudolph on Yusef Lateef
Rebroadcast August 10, 2020.
Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and [...]
2018.04.30 Ras Moshe on Dewey Redman
Rebroadcast August 3, 2020.
We have gotten all excited about "Big Data" in recent years, this idea that knowledge can be gleaned from a large pool of info [...]
2011.01.17 Eric Person on Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rebroadcast July 27, 2020.
Saxophonist Eric Person and I have been listening to music together for over 3 decades. We both love a musician who is The Total [...]
2018.11.12 William Hooker on Milford Graves
Rebroadcast 2020.07.20.
The lineage: you are required to know everything that has come before you but you are also required, when in the act of creation, to [...]
2020.01.06 – Nora McCarthy on Jimmy Scott
Rebroadcast July 6, 2020.
There aren't many of them, those voices that can just reach down inside of you. If you heard Jimmy Scott sing, you knew that [...]
2014.09.08 Matthew Shipp on Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley & Steve Swallow
Rebroadcast June 29, 2020.
Notes? There's only 12 of 'em! How much can you do with that? More to the point, is there a way to approach them that hasn't [...]
2019.07.22 – Vijay Iyer on Geri Allen
Rebroadcast June 22, 2020.
Melville said, "Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round." So, [...]
2011.04.25 Vernon Reid on “Before It Had A Name”
Rebroadcast June 15, 2020
The moment after a new art form emerges, it becomes codified; original ideas quickly devolve to cliches; bold discoverers [...]
2013.11.13 Roy Campbell on Woody Shaw
Rebroadcast September 27, 2021.
Wanna talk trumpet? Roy Campbell spills the beans in this one. The inside stories on Woody Shaw I expected, but Lee [...]
2020.02.03- Steven Bernstein on Don Cherry
Rebroadcast 2020.05.18.
Hey, Bernstein, who was Don Cherry to you? Was he a "hero"? Was he a "role model"? What happened when you met [...]