Miles Davis
2024.07.08 Matt Garrison on Miles Davis 1981
People love to talk about Miles Davis reinventing himself and reinventing the music. They talk about the First Great Quintet in the fifties, the [...]
2023.08.07 Steven Bernstein and Scotty Hard on Miles Davis 1970
You're Miles Davis. It's March of 1970 and you're about to release Bitches Brew, your most incendiary album yet. You have an electric band of [...]
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 [...]
2015.10.26 Ben Perowsky on Miles Davis
This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer / bandleader Ben Perowsky. They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in [...]
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 [...]
2017.11.13 Adam Rudolph on Big Black, Mtume
Rebroadcast January 17, 2022.
The hand and the drum: after the human voice, probably the original musical instrument. But the question tonight on Deep Focus is [...]
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 [...]
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?? [...]