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2016.07.18 Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin

Rebroadcast April 26, 2021. Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension [...]

2018.10.15 Gary Lucas on Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus - 1976
Rebroadcast April 19, 2021. If tenor saxophone giant Lester Young said someone has "big ears" it was a high compliment.  It meant they were hearing everything [...]

2017.04.03 Phillip Johnston on Steve Lacy

Rebroadcast April 12, 2021. In the Jazz world, Steve Lacy is like Broadway: doesn't fit neatly into the grid but, wherever he intersects it, magical things [...]

2012.02.06 Jorge Sylvester on Jimmy Lyons

Rebroadcast April 5, 2021. The subject that a guest chooses for an episode of Deep Focus tells me something about who the guest is. When Jorge Sylvester, [...]

2014.02.17 William Hooker on Larry Young

Rebroadcast March 29, 2021.   As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part [...]

2017.02.17 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes at Birdland

Rebroadcast March 22, 2021. Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that [...]

July 8, 2019 – Pheeroan akLaff on Milford Graves

Rebroadcast March 1, 2021. "A thought exercise: the conventional idea is that the music moves forward with the harmonic innovations of an instrumentalist [...]

2013.05.06 Brian Charette on Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes

Rebroadcast February 15, 2021. Starting at midnight tonight, a 24-hour memorial to Chick Corea on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org (all day Monday [...]

2015.08.31 Bill Ware on Horace Silver

Rebroadcast February 8, 2021. Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in this rebroadcast from 2015. [...]

2013.07.01 Leon Gruenbaum on Hermeto Pascoal

Rebroadcast January 18, 2021. Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in [...]
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