Not all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does. So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rebroadcast March 29, 2021.
As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part [...]
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 [...]
Rebroadcast 2020.07.20.
The lineage: you are required to know everything that has come before you but you are also required, when in the act of creation, to [...]
Rebroadcast 2020.04.13. This program is a continuation 2016.05.23.
Cecil Taylor is unquestionably one of the brightest lights in our celestial sphere so [...]