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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 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 [...]
Rebroadcast March 1, 2021.
"A thought exercise: the conventional idea is that the music moves forward with the harmonic innovations of an instrumentalist [...]
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 [...]
Rebroadcast February 8, 2021.
Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in this rebroadcast from 2015. [...]
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 [...]