Deep Focus
2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 23, 2021.
Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to [...]
2013.11.04 Melvin Gibbs on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 16, 2021.
This is part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013. Melvin Gibbs opens up about [...]
2013.10.21 Eric Person and Roger Cramer on Ronald Shannon Jackson
"He sucked all the air out of the room and turned it back into this wonderful... fragrance." That's Ronald Shannon Jackson talking about Albert Ayler, his [...]
2018.08.06 Henry Schroy and Negro Leo on Nana Vasconcelos
Rebroadcast August 2, 2021.
The music of hunger: how much soul can you squeeze out of a string and a piece of wood or a hunk of metal? It’s one of the great [...]
2015.06.08 Craig Harris on Sun Ra
Rebroadcast July 5, 2021.
Since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, his star just seems to continue to brighten. Not only do his musical ideas grow in relevance [...]
2018.03.05 Steven Bernstein on Roswell Rudd
Rebroadcast June 28, 2021.
What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have [...]
2013.10.07 Vijay Iyer on Andrew Hill
Rebroadcast June 21, 2021.
Sometimes you have to take all the furniture out of the room to see what it really looks like and to decide what belongs in [...]
2012.04.09 Roy Weinberger on Jaki Byard
Rebroadcast June 7, 2021.
This week's show is a Deep Focus unlike any other. It's actually more like one of those sports movies in which The Kid gets to [...]
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, [...]