Mitch Goldman
Manu Dibango
Man, the hits just keep on coming; another of my former employers has left the planet. Manu Dibango has succumbed to the Coronavirus in Paris at age 86. [...]
March 2, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard
We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and women. But [...]
Elvis Presley
No, I never met The King but I did work on a TV show dedicated to him.
Of all the bizarro TV shoots I worked on, this one might have taken the cake. In [...]
January 20, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard
THIS BROADCAST HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE JIMMY HEATH MEMORIAL BROADCAST. IT IS BEING RE-SCHEDULED.
We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as [...]
Carnegie Hall Salutes The Jazz Masters
This show, 25 years ago this month, marked the start of my career in TV. I knocked myself out for this program, working on it exclusively for 5 months. A very [...]
Lorraine Gordon
Sad to hear of the passing of Lorraine Gordon, proprietor of the greatest Jazz club in the world, the Village Vanguard. Lorraine used to call me during my [...]
Karen Duffy
Everything my buddy Duff touches becomes both magically enchanted and twelve times more hilarious. Hanging out with Duff is like being with all Three Wise Men [...]
Getting To The Other Side of the Lens
(This piece was one of a series that I wrote for a photo/video equipment vendor).
More often than not, we find ourselves trying to get “real people” to [...]
Low Tech Solutions To High Tech Problems
(Here is another piece of my professional photography advice, written for a major photo/video retailer's educational portal).
Low Tech Solutions to High [...]
Joe Franklin
"Mitch, did you really know Joe Franklin?" You bet I did, little Timmy! Although, to be honest, that wasn't really such a distinguishing characteristic. If [...]