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.
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 [...]
April 15, 2019 – Craig Harris on Charles Mingus
Trombonist Craig Harris was an aspiring student in the early Seventies when he encountered Charles Mingus’s then-current quintet. Mingus had a trio of [...]
June 11, 2018
Gary Bartz has achieved legend status several times over. For some, of course, merely having been in one of Miles Davis’s great touring and recording bands [...]
April 2, 2018
I love it when I go to a gig and I see that Micah Gaugh is going to be playing. It means it is certain that something unexpected is going to happen. And [...]
May 1, 2017
This Monday night from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM and wkcr.org, our Deep Focus on Allan Holdsworth answers the question, "What makes us love the musicians we [...]
April 17, 2017
Last time Graham Haynes was the guest on Deep Focus, it was to celebrate his father Roy Haynes’s stunning contributions to Charlie Parker’s performances at [...]
January 23, 2017
Will Calhoun was my guest for one of the most revealing Deep Focus episodes ever: his recording of Elvin Jones at the Village Vanguard permanently altered our [...]