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.
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 [...]
2018.08.06 Henry Schroy and Negro Leo on Nana Vasconcelos
Rebroadcast August 2, 2021.
The music of hunger: how much soul can you squeeze out of a string and a piece of wood or a hunk of metal? It’s one of the great [...]
2013.01.13 William Hooker on Elvin Jones
Rebroadcast July 19, 2021.
How is it possible for the hitting of a drum to convey a sense of awe? A feeling of absolute splendor? A state of moral [...]
2014.11.17 Vernon Reid on Jack Bruce
Rebroadcast July 12, 2021.
When musicians talk about their "influences," it's not always about a harmonic or rhythmic choice that another musician made. [...]
2015.06.08 Craig Harris on Sun Ra
Rebroadcast July 5, 2021.
Since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, his star just seems to continue to brighten. Not only do his musical ideas grow in relevance [...]
2018.03.05 Steven Bernstein on Roswell Rudd
Rebroadcast June 28, 2021.
What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have [...]
2013.10.07 Vijay Iyer on Andrew Hill
Rebroadcast June 21, 2021.
Sometimes you have to take all the furniture out of the room to see what it really looks like and to decide what belongs in [...]
2012.06.04 Eric Person on the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rebroadcast June 14, 2021.
Sometimes there's a fantastic narrative behind these Deep Focus programs and sometimes we are simply reveling in glorious, [...]
2012.04.09 Roy Weinberger on Jaki Byard
Rebroadcast June 7, 2021.
This week's show is a Deep Focus unlike any other. It's actually more like one of those sports movies in which The Kid gets to [...]