Deep Focus
2026.05.11 DJ Logic on Miles Davis
At WKCR, we don't need a special occasion to celebrate the music of Miles Davis, but this month of May does happen to mark his centennial, so let's go all the [...]
2026.04.27 Melvin Gibbs on Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti has been the subject of at least half a dozen documentaries, a Broadway play, a shelf of books, and at least one richly lauded podcast series. [...]
2026.03.16 William Hooker on Old and New Dreams
Throw away the map. Now, how are you going to find your way to your destination? You will probably find many more answers than you may have [...]
2026.03.02 Eric Person on Eddie Harris – part 2 with Ethan Singer
This episode of Deep Focus has been decades in the making. Deep Focus host Mitch Goldman started DJing Monday nights at WKCR in 1985. At that [...]
2026.02.16 Steve Slagle on Charlie Haden
The music, the people playing it, and the audience are all in a state of total oneness. It's a spontaneous improvisation as delicate as an [...]
2026.01.19 Mazz Swift on Butch Morris
Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an [...]
2026.01.05 Jay Rodriguez on Jim Pepper
Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about [...]
2025.12.22 Will Calhoun on Jack DeJohnette
Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was [...]
2025.11.24 Henry Threadgill on Ahmad Jamal
Listen to Henry Threadgill's music. What a phantasmagoria of splendors and esoterica must animate his mind! Don't you just want to go to that [...]
2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray
Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there. The [...]