Mitch Goldman
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 [...]
Jack Bruce
I first met Jack Bruce in Stuttgart, Germany in 1995. It was a televised festival of the music of Jimi Hendrix and I was there as Vernon Reid’s tour [...]
Robin Williams
A Robin Williams story from backstage at Carnegie Hall. Orchestra Room 3 is packed with rock stars and their usual retinue but all eyes and ears are on one [...]