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2026.03.02 Eric Person on Eddie Harris – part 2 with Ethan Singer
This episode of Deep Focus has been decades in the making. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman started DJing Monday nights at WKCR in 1985. At that [...]
2026.02.16 Steve Slagle on Charlie Haden
The music, the people playing it, and the audience are all in a state of total oneness. It's a spontaneous improvisation as delicate as an [...]
2026.01.19 Mazz Swift on Butch Morris
Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an [...]
2026.01.05 Jay Rodriguez on Jim Pepper
Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about [...]
2025.12.22 Will Calhoun on Jack DeJohnette
Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was [...]
2025.11.24 Henry Threadgill on Ahmad Jamal
Listen to Henry Threadgill's music. What a phantasmagoria of splendors and esoterica must animate his mind! Don't you just want to go to that [...]
2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray
Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there. The [...]
2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young
If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game. Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time [...]
2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer
What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid? Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid and [...]
2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum Road
Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be? Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those [...]