Deep Focus

2015.12.08 Don McKenzie on Last Exit

Rebroadcast October 24, 2022. This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm), Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a [...]

2022.09.26 William Hooker on Pharaoh Sanders – Memorial Broadcast

No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did.  William Hooker heard the call through the [...]

22.09.19 Gary Lucas on Abdullah Ibrahim

Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]
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