2016.10.10 Vijay Iyer on Thelonious Monk

Rebroadcast October 4, 2021.
It’s a special Thelonious Monk birthday week Deep Focus from 2016 with host Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist Vijay Iyer.  Of Monk, Vijay Iyer has said, “I think about Thelonious Monk every day. He’s my biggest influence by far.”  Insights and exquisitely rare recordings will abound.

Tuesday morning the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

October 10, in addition to being Monk’s birthday anniversary, is also the anniversary of WKCR being granted its FM broadcast license by the FCC in 1941. Come on now, people: stand up and cheer!

 
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Photo credit: William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons