Jazz Podcast
2023.03.20 Ras Moshe on Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to [...]
2023.03.06 Rodney Jones on Wes Montgomery
For my guitar freeks, plectrists, six-string slingers and hammer-oners, you have to hear this episode of Deep Focus! For this one, recorded on the night of [...]
2023.01.09 Brian Charette on Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the [...]
2022.12.12 David Soldier on Miles Davis 1974
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12/22) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the [...]
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 [...]