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.
2016.03.28 Will Calhoun on Elvin Jones
Rebroadcast 2020.05.11
Tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM Mitch Goldman hosts drummer Will Calhoun for a Deep Focus on their mutual hero, Elvin Jones. [...]
2019.09.02 – Eric Person on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast May 4, 2020.
Composer/bandleader Eric Person learned his craft from some of boldest who ever played the game. Dave Holland was an [...]
2018.11.26 Jorge Sylvester on Eric Dolphy
Rebroadcast April 27, 2020.
Many artists are admired but few are elevated to the status of icons. Eric Dolphy's rich yet austere tone, his thorny compositions [...]
2016.06.06 William Hooker and Steve Dalachinsky on Cecil Taylor
Rebroadcast 2020.04.13. This program is a continuation 2016.05.23.
Cecil Taylor is unquestionably one of the brightest lights in our celestial sphere so [...]
2019.12.09 – Ben Tyree on Harriet Tubman
Rebroadcast 2020.03.30.
Throw guitarist Ben Tyree some meat.* He wants to hear a band that will shred the genres and categories, explode [...]
March 2, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard
We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and women. But [...]
January 20, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard
THIS BROADCAST HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE JIMMY HEATH MEMORIAL BROADCAST. IT IS BEING RE-SCHEDULED.
We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as [...]
August 19, 2019 – Ben Tyree on Frank Zappa
Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Weather Report... All created challenging instrumental music in the Seventies, all had large, dedicated [...]
June 24, 2019 – Brian Charette on Duke Ellington
How is it possible that no one has chosen Duke Ellington as a subject for Deep Focus? Maybe because it's just too daunting; no one has matched his brilliance [...]
2019.05.13 Arturo O’Farrill on Steely Dan
Rebroadcast January 11, 2021.
Arturo O'Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in [...]