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2024.09.16 Lewis “Flip” Barnes on William Parker
Let's present an award: who would you say has been the most prolific artist on NYC's forward-looking music scene and who has contributed the most to [...]
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 [...]
2019.07.22 – Vijay Iyer on Geri Allen
Rebroadcast June 22, 2020.
Melville said, "Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round." So, [...]
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 [...]
March 2, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard
We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and women. But [...]
January 20, 2020 – Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard
THIS BROADCAST HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE JIMMY HEATH MEMORIAL BROADCAST. IT IS BEING RE-SCHEDULED.
We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as [...]
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, [...]
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