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.
2014.04.28 Adam Rudolph on the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rebroadcast December 13, 2021.
Let's keep the dance alive! The last episode of Deep Focus had us listening to live recordings of The Art Ensemble of [...]
2013.04.18 Daniel Sadownick on the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rebroadcast November 29, 2021.
What is the Art Ensemble of Chicago? Are they a band or are they an omen, a signpost marking a new direction [...]
2017.10.02 Reggie Sylvester on Bern Nix
Rebroadcast November 15, 2021.
"You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right [...]
2016.06.20 Brian Charette on Keith Emerson
Rebroadcast November 1, 2021.
Seventies prog: bloated arena rock or informed, impassioned, challenging music featuring blazing chops and mind [...]
2017.08.07 William Hooker on Don Pullen
Rebroadcast October 18, 2021.
I love the conversations that ensue when I invite an artist to appear on Deep Focus. Drummer/conceptualist William Hooker is a [...]
2016.10.10 Vijay Iyer on Thelonious Monk
Rebroadcast October 4, 2021.
It's a special Thelonious Monk birthday week Deep Focus from 2016 with host Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist Vijay [...]
2018.07.23 Andy Caploe on Ed Blackwell
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivalled radio programming or his grammy-winning [...]
2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 23, 2021.
Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to [...]
2013.11.04 Melvin Gibbs on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 16, 2021.
This is part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013. Melvin Gibbs opens up about [...]
2013.10.21 Eric Person and Roger Cramer on Ronald Shannon Jackson
"He sucked all the air out of the room and turned it back into this wonderful... fragrance." That's Ronald Shannon Jackson talking about Albert Ayler, his [...]