Jazz Podcast

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 [...]

2013.01.13 William Hooker on Elvin Jones

Rebroadcast July 19, 2021. How is it possible for the hitting of a drum to convey a sense of awe? A feeling of absolute splendor? A state of moral [...]

2015.06.08 Craig Harris on Sun Ra

Rebroadcast July 5, 2021. Since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, his star just seems to continue to brighten. Not only do his musical ideas grow in relevance [...]

2013.10.07 Vijay Iyer on Andrew Hill

Rebroadcast June 21, 2021. Sometimes you have to take all the furniture out of the room to see what it really looks like and to decide what belongs in [...]

2012.04.09 Roy Weinberger on Jaki Byard

Rebroadcast June 7, 2021. This week's show is a Deep Focus unlike any other.  It's actually more like one of those sports movies in which The Kid gets to [...]
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