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2016.03.28 Will Calhoun on Elvin Jones
Rebroadcast 2020.05.11
Tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM Mitch Goldman hosts drummer Will Calhoun for a Deep Focus on their mutual hero, Elvin Jones. [...]
Little Richard
Michael of Washington, DC writes in to say, “Waiting for stories about Little Richard…” Well, yeah, I have one or two.
I spent the whole summer of [...]
2019.09.02 – Eric Person on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast May 4, 2020.
Composer/bandleader Eric Person learned his craft from some of boldest who ever played the game. Dave Holland was an [...]
2018.11.26 Jorge Sylvester on Eric Dolphy
Rebroadcast April 27, 2020.
Many artists are admired but few are elevated to the status of icons. Eric Dolphy's rich yet austere tone, his thorny compositions [...]
2016.06.06 William Hooker and Steve Dalachinsky on Cecil Taylor
Rebroadcast 2020.04.13. This program is a continuation 2016.05.23.
Cecil Taylor is unquestionably one of the brightest lights in our celestial sphere so [...]
Hal Willner
The news of Hal Willner’s death shut me down for a couple of days. This was not supposed to happen. Hal Willner was not supposed to die at 64 [...]
Manu Dibango
Man, the hits just keep on coming; another of my former employers has left the planet. Manu Dibango has succumbed to the Coronavirus in Paris at age 86. [...]
Eric Weissberg
I don't know if you know the name, "Eric Weissberg" but, if you love music, you should. Eric was certainly best known for creating one of the biggest [...]
March 2, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard
We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and women. But [...]
Elvis Presley
Of all the bizarro TV shoots I worked on, this one might have taken the cake. In October of 1994 we shot a 60th birthday tribute to Elvis Presley for [...]