Steven Bernstein

2024.01.22 Steven Bernstein on “The Don Cherry Tapes”

Tonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch [...]

2023.08.07 Steven Bernstein and Scotty Hard on Miles Davis 1970

You're Miles Davis.  It's March of 1970 and you're about to release Bitches Brew, your most incendiary album yet.  You have an electric band of [...]

2018.03.05 Steven Bernstein on Roswell Rudd

Rebroadcast June 28, 2021. What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have [...]

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 [...]

2020.02.03- Steven Bernstein on Don Cherry

Rebroadcast 2020.05.18. Hey, Bernstein, who was Don Cherry to you? Was he a "hero"? Was he a "role model"?  What happened when you met [...]
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