Jazz Interview
2026.07.20 Leon Gruenbaum on Wayne Shorter and Milton Nascimento
Seeing as it's a known fact that the loveliest sound in the universe is Milton Nascimento's voice with Wayne Shorter's music, can we all just agree to set [...]
2026.06.08 Vijay Iyer on Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
The moment you invoke the name of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, the widow of John Coltrane, you open a door into other ways of understanding. She was [...]
2026.05.25 Michael Veal on Miles Davis
When they go deep, we go deeper.
We have been thinking about Miles Davis in anticipation of his centennial (May 26). How about we [...]
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 [...]
2026.01.05 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 [...]
2025.11.10 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 [...]
2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young
If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game. Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time [...]
2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum Road
Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be? Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those [...]
2025.08.18 Bob Dee on Jef Lee Johnson
How is it possible that you have never heard guitarist Jef Lee Johnson? He was as incendiary and as nakedly original as any soloist you have ever heard [...]