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.
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 [...]
January 9, 2017
Bassist Mark Peterson joins me tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR (89.9FM and wkcr.org) in a Deep Focus on German bassist/bandleader Eberhard Weber. Weber is a [...]
May 23, 2016
Cecil Taylor is unquestionably one of the brightest lights in our celestial sphere so why, in all these years, has he never been the topic of Deep Focus? [...]
February 1, 2016
How does a spiritual impulse manifest as sound? How are questions asked and answered sonically? Alice Coltrane had answers to these questions; William Hooker [...]
Monday December 7, 2015
This Monday night from 6pm to 9pm EST on WKCR 89.9FM and wkcr.org, I welcome drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the [...]
October 12, 2015
I've got one for the heads (you know who you are): tonight from 6pm to 9pm EST musical gourmand Gary Lucas and I put Archie Shepp in Deep Focus. You know [...]
September 28, 2015
Oh, I have some sparkling gems for you tonight! Two of our modern-day tenor saxophone heroes in never-before-heard recordings. Only on WKCR 89.9FM and [...]
John Coltrane Birthday Broadcast
And why is this not a national [...]
August 17, 2015
Bassist / producer Melvin Gibbs walks the path of Harmolodics and puts Ornette Coleman in Deep Focus with me tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM and [...]