Jazz Podcast
2022.11.28 Vernon Reid on Carlos Santana
In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same [...]
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 [...]
2022.09.26 William Hooker on Pharaoh Sanders – Memorial Broadcast
No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did. William Hooker heard the call through the [...]
22.09.19 Gary Lucas on Abdullah Ibrahim
Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather [...]
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 [...]