#MitchGoldman
October 28, 2019 – Ben Tyree on Vernon Reid
This I love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject. It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: [...]
August 5, 2019 – Michael Dorf on Sonny Sharrock
Rebroadcast April 11, 2022.
This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between [...]
November 25, 2019 – Pheeroan akLaff on Jack DeJohnette
Rebroadcast May 31, 2021.
How many drummers changed the whole conversation, just with their playing? Like, to the point that they became the North Star [...]
2020.01.06 – Nora McCarthy on Jimmy Scott
Rebroadcast July 6, 2020.
There aren't many of them, those voices that can just reach down inside of you. If you heard Jimmy Scott sing, you knew that [...]
2019.12.09 – Ben Tyree on Harriet Tubman
Rebroadcast 2020.03.30.
Throw guitarist Ben Tyree some meat.* He wants to hear a band that will shred the genres and categories, explode [...]
2017.02.20 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes
Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that the world has never heard, [...]
August 19, 2019 – Ben Tyree on Frank Zappa
Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Weather Report... All created challenging instrumental music in the Seventies, all had large, dedicated [...]