Eric Person

2024.06.24 Eric Person on Art Blakey

Listen to any song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.  There will be no question in your mind about who is driving the bus or who is riding on [...]

2022.10.31 Eric Person on Lester Bowie

"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb.  Here's one definition: to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

2011.09.26 Eric Person on McCoy Tyner

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Rebroadcast November 30, 2020. McCoy Tyner was one of the many greats who we lost in this year of Covid-19 but the light his music shines on the music [...]

2019.02.04 Eric Person on Jimmy Lyons

Rebroadcast November 23, 2020. Say the name "Jimmy Lyons" to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that [...]

2018.02.19 Eric Person on Geri Allen

Rebroadcast November 16, 2020. Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed.  It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as [...]

2013.08.12 Eric Person on Sonny Rollins

Rebroadcast November 9, 2020. How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh [...]

2017.03.06 Eric Person on Woody Shaw

Rebroadcast November 2, 2020. In the Jazz world of utterly distinctive individuals, trumpeter Woody Shaw still managed to stand out. He didn’t speak like [...]
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