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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 [...]
Elvis Presley
No, I never met The King but I did work on a TV show dedicated to him.
Of all the bizarro TV shoots I worked on, this one might have taken the cake. In [...]
Joseph Shabalala
Sad news out of South Africa today with the passing of Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. After getting my diploma from Harmolodic High School, I [...]
Ginger Baker
“Mitch, this is Ginger Baker.” It’s April 7, 1987 and we are at the Cafe Central in Cologne, West Germany. I am on the road with Ronald [...]