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2022.09.05 Graham Haynes on Bill Dixon

Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an [...]

2022.08.08 Ben Tyree on Pat Martino

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020.  Guitarist/sonic architect [...]

October 28, 2019 – Ben Tyree on Vernon Reid

This I love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject.  It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: [...]

2018.03.19 William Hooker on Sunny Murray

Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music.   In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow [...]

2015.10.26 Ben Perowsky on Miles Davis

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer / bandleader Ben Perowsky.  They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in [...]

2013.08.26 Eric Person on Wayne Shorter

Oh, the riches!  Not only a Deep Focus on Wayne Shorter's then-recent work with his Quartet, not only the inspired and inspiring Eric Person as Mitch [...]

2014.05.26 Eric Person on Sun Ra

It's after the end of the world.  Don't you know that yet?  Host Mitch Goldman and saxophonist Eric Person put Sun Ra in Deep Focus tonight (5/2) on WKCR [...]

August 5, 2019 – Michael Dorf on Sonny Sharrock

Rebroadcast April 11, 2022. This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between [...]

2015.02.09 Andy Caploe on Sonny Rollins

Rebroadcast March 28, 2022. I know you think of me as the on-air host at WKCR 89.9FM on Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm but the truth is that I have only been [...]

2011.08.15 Pheeroan akLaff on Coltrane and Miles in Japan

Rebroadcast February 28, 2022. The music I love has porous boundaries.  If the audience responds to what they hear, the musicians will give that energy [...]
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