Deep Focus
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 [...]
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 [...]
2018.12.10 Melvin Gibbs on the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rebroadcast January 3, 2022.
Melvin Gibbs is hearing things that I am not hearing yet. I know this from the choices he makes as a bassist, his work as a [...]
2014.04.28 Adam Rudolph on the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rebroadcast December 13, 2021.
Let's keep the dance alive! The last episode of Deep Focus had us listening to live recordings of The Art Ensemble of [...]