Mitch Goldman

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, [...]

2014.02.17 William Hooker on Larry Young

Rebroadcast March 29, 2021.   As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part [...]

2017.02.17 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes at Birdland

Rebroadcast March 22, 2021. Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that [...]

A RAM manifestation of Howard Johnson

I want to say this was fall of 1982. I had booked Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition to play at SUNY-Binghamton. The day of the show arrives and the first [...]

2015.05.25 Brandon Ross on Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet

Rebroadcast March 15, 2021. A band cannot be a great band if it doesn't have its own distinctive sound.  The sonorities of the instruments and the writing are [...]

1987.07.13 Andy Rotman and Mitch interview Milford Graves

Here for you is a bonus episode.  Since we are remembering Milford Graves, this is an interview that Andy Rotman and I did with him in 1987 on the topic of [...]

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 [...]

2019.03.18 Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran on Jaki Byard and Nina Simone

Rebroadcast February 22, 2021. Rebroadcast July 13, 2020. If you are looking for new ways to think about and hear this music, pay attention to what [...]

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. [...]
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