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.
2019.07.22 – 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 [...]
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 [...]