Jazz radio
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 [...]
2011.12.05 Graham Haynes on Miles Davis 1973-75
Rebroadcast May 24, 2021.
Want a hot-button issue for a Jazz listener? Just mention "electric Miles." If you really want to get them going, talk about the [...]
2017.06.12 Ben Perowsky on Al Foster
Rebroadcast May 10, 2021.
People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The [...]
2016.09.12 Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2 of 2
Rebroadcast May 3, 2021.
Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: Unheard recordings from the One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? [...]
2016.07.18 Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin
Rebroadcast April 26, 2021.
Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension [...]
2018.10.15 Gary Lucas on Charles Mingus
Rebroadcast April 19, 2021.
If tenor saxophone giant Lester Young said someone has "big ears" it was a high compliment. It meant they were hearing everything [...]
2017.04.03 Phillip Johnston on Steve Lacy
Rebroadcast April 12, 2021.
In the Jazz world, Steve Lacy is like Broadway: doesn't fit neatly into the grid but, wherever he intersects it, magical things [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]