Mitch Goldman
2016.06.20 Brian Charette on Keith Emerson
Rebroadcast November 1, 2021.
Seventies prog: bloated arena rock or informed, impassioned, challenging music featuring blazing chops and mind [...]
2017.08.07 William Hooker on Don Pullen
Rebroadcast October 18, 2021.
I love the conversations that ensue when I invite an artist to appear on Deep Focus. Drummer/conceptualist William Hooker is a [...]
2016.10.10 Vijay Iyer on Thelonious Monk
Rebroadcast October 4, 2021.
It's a special Thelonious Monk birthday week Deep Focus from 2016 with host Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist Vijay [...]
Melvin Van Peebles
The most interesting man in the world? You won’t find him in a beer commercial. Until yesterday, he lived right across the street from me. [...]
2018.07.23 Andy Caploe on Ed Blackwell
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivalled radio programming or his grammy-winning [...]
Phil Schaap
Phil Schaap's greatest achievement was not his astonishing command of the history of the Jazz idiom or his unrivaled radio programming or his Grammy-winning [...]
2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson
Rebroadcast August 23, 2021.
Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source. It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to [...]
2013.10.21 Eric Person and Roger Cramer on Ronald Shannon Jackson
"He sucked all the air out of the room and turned it back into this wonderful... fragrance." That's Ronald Shannon Jackson talking about Albert Ayler, his [...]
2018.08.06 Henry Schroy and Negro Leo on Nana Vasconcelos
Rebroadcast August 2, 2021.
The music of hunger: how much soul can you squeeze out of a string and a piece of wood or a hunk of metal? It’s one of the great [...]
2013.01.13 William Hooker on Elvin Jones
Rebroadcast July 19, 2021.
How is it possible for the hitting of a drum to convey a sense of awe? A feeling of absolute splendor? A state of moral [...]