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November 25, 2019 – Pheeroan akLaff on Jack DeJohnette

Rebroadcast May 31, 2021. How many drummers changed the whole conversation, just with their playing?  Like, to the point that they became the North Star [...]

2011.12.05 Graham Haynes on Miles Davis 1973-75

Rebroadcast May 24, 2021. Want a hot-button issue for a Jazz listener? Just mention "electric Miles." If you really want to get them going, talk about the [...]

2016.08.01 Oren Bloedow on Defunkt

Rebroadcast May 17, 2021. On the next Deep Focus, the band that rewrote all the rules, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt. Bassist Oren Bloedow joins host Mitch Goldman, [...]

2017.06.12 Ben Perowsky on Al Foster

Rebroadcast May 10, 2021. People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The [...]

2016.09.12 Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2 of 2

Rebroadcast May 3, 2021. Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: Unheard recordings from the One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? [...]

2016.07.18 Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin

Rebroadcast April 26, 2021. Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension [...]

Shock G

Most people who are not in the music biz have the absolute wrong idea about what backstage is like; it’s almost never partying like a rock star with Mick [...]

2018.10.15 Gary Lucas on Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus - 1976
Rebroadcast April 19, 2021. If tenor saxophone giant Lester Young said someone has "big ears" it was a high compliment.  It meant they were hearing everything [...]

2017.04.03 Phillip Johnston on Steve Lacy

Rebroadcast April 12, 2021. In the Jazz world, Steve Lacy is like Broadway: doesn't fit neatly into the grid but, wherever he intersects it, magical things [...]

2012.02.06 Jorge Sylvester on Jimmy Lyons

Rebroadcast April 5, 2021. The subject that a guest chooses for an episode of Deep Focus tells me something about who the guest is. When Jorge Sylvester, [...]
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