Jazz Interview
2012.02.06 Jorge Sylvester on Jimmy Lyons
Rebroadcast April 5, 2021.
The subject that a guest chooses for an episode of Deep Focus tells me something about who the guest is. When Jorge Sylvester, [...]
2014.02.17 William Hooker on Larry Young
Rebroadcast March 29, 2021.
As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part [...]
2017.02.17 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes at Birdland
Rebroadcast March 22, 2021.
Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that [...]
July 8, 2019 – Pheeroan akLaff on Milford Graves
Rebroadcast March 1, 2021.
"A thought exercise: the conventional idea is that the music moves forward with the harmonic innovations of an instrumentalist [...]
2013.05.06 Brian Charette on Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes
Rebroadcast February 15, 2021.
Starting at midnight tonight, a 24-hour memorial to Chick Corea on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org (all day Monday [...]
2015.08.31 Bill Ware on Horace Silver
Rebroadcast February 8, 2021.
Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in this rebroadcast from 2015. [...]
2013.07.01 Leon Gruenbaum on Hermeto Pascoal
Rebroadcast January 18, 2021.
Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in [...]
2011.08.01 Brian Charette on Weather Report with Jaco Pastorius
Rebroadcast Dec. 21, 2020.
#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #WeatherReport #EthelSmith #Jaco #JacoPastorius #Jazz #JazzInterview [...]
2011.09.12 Vernon Reid on Weather Report
Rebroadcast on December 14, 2020.
From the outside, Big Ideas seem to emerge in one complete piece. But If you find yourself inside them, either because [...]
2011.09.26 Eric Person on McCoy Tyner
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 [...]