Rebroadcast on December 14, 2020.
From the outside, Big Ideas seem to emerge in one complete piece. But If you find yourself inside them, either because [...]
Rebroadcast December 7, 2020.
Many people think it was Miles Davis who first fused Rock and Jazz. Sorry, folks: Tony Williams got there sooner (and [...]
Rebroadcast November 30, 2020.
McCoy Tyner was one of the many greats who we lost in this year of Covid-19 but the light his music shines on the music [...]
Rebroadcast November 23, 2020.
Say the name "Jimmy Lyons" to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that [...]
Rebroadcast November 16, 2020.
Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as [...]
Rebroadcast November 9, 2020.
How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh [...]
Rebroadcast October 26, 2020.
Vocalist Lezlie Harrison is my guest for a Deep Focus on Abbey Lincoln. Achingly beautiful recordings of Abbey that you have [...]
Rebroadcast October 19, 2020.
“Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.” Thelonious Monk said those words; Henry Threadgill [...]
Rebroadcast October 5, 2020.
Billy Bang wasn’t called “Billy Bang” for nothing. He earned that name as a demolitions expert in Viet Nam but it was [...]