Jazz Podcast
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 [...]
2015.02.09 Andy Caploe on Sonny Rollins
Rebroadcast March 28, 2022.
I know you think of me as the on-air host at WKCR 89.9FM on Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm but the truth is that I have only been [...]
2011.08.15 Pheeroan akLaff on Coltrane and Miles in Japan
Rebroadcast February 28, 2022.
The music I love has porous boundaries. If the audience responds to what they hear, the musicians will give that energy [...]
2013.04.18 Daniel Sadownick on the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Rebroadcast November 29, 2021.
What is the Art Ensemble of Chicago? Are they a band or are they an omen, a signpost marking a new direction [...]
2017.10.02 Reggie Sylvester on Bern Nix
Rebroadcast November 15, 2021.
"You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right [...]
2016.10.10 Vijay Iyer on Thelonious Monk
Rebroadcast October 4, 2021.
It's a special Thelonious Monk birthday week Deep Focus from 2016 with host Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist Vijay [...]
2018.07.23 Andy Caploe on Ed Blackwell
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivalled radio programming or his grammy-winning [...]
2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 23, 2021.
Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to [...]
2013.11.04 Melvin Gibbs on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 16, 2021.
This is part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013. Melvin Gibbs opens up about [...]
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 [...]