Jazz radio
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 [...]
2013.05.06 Brian Charette on Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes
Rebroadcast February 15, 2021.
Starting at midnight tonight, a 24-hour memorial to Chick Corea on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org (all day Monday [...]
2015.08.31 Bill Ware on Horace Silver
Rebroadcast February 8, 2021.
Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in this rebroadcast from 2015. [...]
2013.07.01 Leon Gruenbaum on Hermeto Pascoal
Rebroadcast January 18, 2021.
Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in [...]
2011.08.01 Brian Charette on Weather Report with Jaco Pastorius
Rebroadcast Dec. 21, 2020.
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