Deep Focus

William Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music. More than that, he is a bassist, bandleader, and conceptualist of the highest order. The sheer volume of projects (including the upcoming Vision Festival) that he commits energy to is simply daunting and the list of noted improvisers he has played with is practically a who's who of the idiom. So which of them are we going to focus on? You'll have to tune in to find out but trust me: you are going to be a fly on the wall with William and me for some heavy, heavy business! This Monday 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: William Parker by Jimmy Katz, used by permission of William Parker, williamparker.net. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamParker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #FreeJazz #JazzImprov #VisionFest

William Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music. More than that, he is a bassist, bandleader, and conceptualist of the highest order. The sheer volume of projects (including the upcoming Vision Festival) that he commits energy to is simply daunting and the list of noted improvisers he has played with is practically a who's who of the idiom. So which of them are we going to focus on? You'll have to tune in to find out but trust me: you are going to be a fly on the wall with William and me for some heavy, heavy business! This Monday 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: William Parker by Jimmy Katz, used by permission of William Parker, williamparker.net. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamParker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #FreeJazz #JazzImprov #VisionFest

William Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music. More than that, he is a bassist, bandleader, and conceptualist of the highest order. The sheer volume of projects (including the upcoming Vision Festival) that he commits energy to is simply daunting and the list of noted improvisers he has played with is practically a who's who of the idiom. So which of them are we going to focus on? Are we going to push our luck one more time in the WKCR archives to try to find a live set from the legendary Five Spot of William playing with the mighty Don Cherry? A set William himself has never heard? CAN IT BE?! Ttrust me: you are going to be a fly on the wall with William and me for some heavy, heavy business! This Monday 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

When the centennial of an artist as singular and inventive and influential and expressive as Wes Montgomery passes, one Deep Focus is not enough. Several weeks ago, Rodney Jones brought us a whole new appreciation for Wes. Can Mark Whitfield do it again? This Monday (5/8), Mark takes a deep dive into the WKCR archives on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. Not only are we going to play some never-released live recordings from the NYC nightlife of 1965, but what about that supposed recording of Wes playing alone in a hotel room? Talk about crypto-jazzology, right?! This Monday (5/8) 6p to 9p EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ and your favorite podcasting app. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WesMontgomery #MarkWhitfield #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_ Photo first published by Gibson. According to NPR, the photo was taken by Chuck Stewart., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

When the centennial of an artist as singular and inventive and influential and expressive as Wes Montgomery passes, one Deep Focus is not enough. Several weeks ago, Rodney Jones brought us a whole new appreciation for Wes. Can Mark Whitfield do it again? This Monday (5/8), Mark takes a deep dive into the WKCR archives on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. Not only are we going to play some never-released live recordings from the NYC nightlife of 1965, but what about that supposed recording of Wes playing alone in a hotel room? Talk about crypto-jazzology, right?! This Monday (5/8) 6p to 9p EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ and your favorite podcasting app. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WesMontgomery #MarkWhitfield #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_(1967) Published by A&M Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

When the centennial of an artist as singular and inventive and influential and expressive as Wes Montgomery passes, one Deep Focus is not enough. Several weeks ago, Rodney Jones brought us a whole new appreciation for Wes. Can Mark Whitfield do it again? This Monday (5/8), Mark takes a deep dive into the WKCR archives on Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus. Not only are we going to play some never-released live recordings from the NYC nightlife of 1965, but what about that supposed recording of Wes playing alone in a hotel room? Talk about crypto-jazzology, right?! This Monday (5/8) 6p to 9p EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ and your favorite podcasting app. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WesMontgomery #MarkWhitfield #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_ Photo first published by Gibson. According to NPR, the photo was taken by Chuck Stewart., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

This Monday (5/1) Jazz Alternatives presents Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on Andrew Cyrille with guest Daniel Sadownick. Take a stroll through Andrew Cyrille's discography. The range of his work across the last 60+ years is practically gasp-inducing. Admire How many of the hundreds of sessions that he has anchored in that time represent the leader's best works. Weigh the sense of anticipation you feel when you see him taking the bandstand, the certainty that you are about to be led through a quarter that no one has ever visited before, not even him. This is a musician of great consequence. Percussionist Daniel Sadownick knows a thing or two about the transformational power of music. He studied with Cyrille and will share his first-person insight with us. Hey, did anyone remember to check the WKCR archives for astonishing, unknown live recordings? Oh yes, we did. Oh yes! Monday night from 6pm to 9pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM in NYC, WKCR-HD, and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com joining hundreds of other episodes. Photo credit: Andrew Cyrille by Shawn Brackbill, Brooklyn, NY, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor

This Monday (5/1) Jazz Alternatives presents Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on Andrew Cyrille with guest Daniel Sadownick. Take a stroll through Andrew Cyrille's discography. The range of his work across the last 60+ years is practically gasp-inducing. Admire How many of the hundreds of sessions that he has anchored in that time represent the leader's best works. Weigh the sense of anticipation you feel when you see him taking the bandstand, the certainty that you are about to be led through a quarter that no one has ever visited before, not even him. This is a musician of great consequence. Percussionist Daniel Sadownick knows a thing or two about the transformational power of music. He studied with Cyrille and will share his first-person insight with us. Hey, did anyone remember to check the WKCR archives for astonishing, unknown live recordings? Oh yes, we did. Oh yes! Monday night from 6pm to 9pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM in NYC, WKCR-HD, and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com joining hundreds of other episodes. Photo credit: Andrew Cyrille by Shawn Brackbill, Brooklyn, NY, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor

This Monday (5/1) Jazz Alternatives presents Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on Andrew Cyrille with guest Daniel Sadownick. Take a stroll through Andrew Cyrille's discography. The range of his work across the last 60+ years is practically gasp-inducing. Admire How many of the hundreds of sessions that he has anchored in that time represent the leader's best works. Weigh the sense of anticipation you feel when you see him taking the bandstand, the certainty that you are about to be led through a quarter that no one has ever visited before, not even him. This is a musician of great consequence. Percussionist Daniel Sadownick knows a thing or two about the transformational power of music. He studied with Cyrille and will share his first-person insight with us. Hey, did anyone remember to check the WKCR archives for astonishing, unknown live recordings? Oh yes, we did. Oh yes! Monday night from 6pm to 9pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM in NYC, WKCR-HD, and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com joining hundreds of other episodes. Photo credit: Andrew Cyrille by Shawn Brackbill, Brooklyn, NY, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor

The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to summon them, and few do as our guest for this Deep Focus, Ras Moshe. He and host Mitch Goldman bring us to the legendary Tin Palace for an exploration by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre at the height of his creative powers in the mid-Seventies. He is joined by some of the brightest lights of that continually-emerging scene. Want to know what it was really like? This will be a revelation. Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org Monday (3/20) 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #DeepFocus #Kalaparusha #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview

The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to summon them, and few do as our guest for this Deep Focus, Ras Moshe. He and host Mitch Goldman bring us to the legendary Tin Palace for an exploration by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre at the height of his creative powers in the mid-Seventies. He is joined by some of the brightest lights of that continually-emerging scene. Want to know what it was really like? This will be a revelation. Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org Monday (3/20) 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #DeepFocus #Kalaparusha #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview

The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to summon them, and few do as our guest for this Deep Focus, Ras Moshe. He and host Mitch Goldman bring us to the legendary Tin Palace for an exploration by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre at the height of his creative powers in the mid-Seventies. He is joined by some of the brightest lights of that continually-emerging scene. Want to know what it was really like? This will be a revelation. Deep Focus on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org Monday (3/20) 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #DeepFocus #Kalaparusha #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview

It's 1965. Wes Montgomery has been on the scene for more than 2 decades but he is just emerging as a major pop star. He has hit singles on the charts and he is touring major European concert venues. But in New York, he plays a series of shows at a small club on Spring Street called the Half Note. It's the spot downtown where all the cats check each other out. For this episode, recorded on the actual centennial of Wes Montgomery's birth, you are a fly on the wall of the Half Note for some true musical magic. Our guide is a genuine adept of all things Wes: master guitarist Rodney Jones. Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_(1967) Published by A&M Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #DeepFocus #WesMontgomery #RodneyJones #MitchGoldman #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview

It's 1965. Wes Montgomery has been on the scene for more than 2 decades but he is just emerging as a major pop star. He has hit singles on the charts and he is touring major European concert venues. But in New York, he plays a series of shows at a small club on Spring Street called the Half Note. It's the spot downtown where all the cats check each other out. For this episode, recorded on the actual centennial of Wes Montgomery's birth, you are a fly on the wall of the Half Note for some true musical magic. Our guide is a genuine adept of all things Wes: master guitarist Rodney Jones. Also, an added bonus: is this Wes Montgomery practicing alone in a hotel room? Doing what no one else can? Rodney Jones seems to think so. What do you think? #WKCR #DeepFocus #WesMontgomery #RodneyJones #MitchGoldman #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview Photo credit: Wes Montgomery - Photo first published by Gibson. According to NPR, the photo was taken by Chuck Stewart., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

It's 1965. Wes Montgomery has been on the scene for more than 2 decades but he is just emerging as a major pop star. He has hit singles on the charts and he is touring major European concert venues. But in New York, he plays a series of shows at a small club on Spring Street called the Half Note. It's the spot downtown where all the cats check each other out. For this episode, recorded on the actual centennial of Wes Montgomery's birth, you are a fly on the wall of the Half Note for some true musical magic. Our guide is a genuine adept of all things Wes: master guitarist Rodney Jones. Photo credit: Wes_Montgomery_(1967) Published by A&M Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #WKCR #DeepFocus #WesMontgomery #RodneyJones #MitchGoldman #JazzGuitar #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview

Celebrating the glorious music of Dexter Gordon on the centenary of his birth, February 27, 2023, with the brilliant Eric Person. Photo credit: Dexter Gordon at Mountain Winery Jazz Festival, Saratoga CA_1981 Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Celebrating the magnificent Dexter Gordon on the centenary of his birth, February 27, 2023, with the brilliant Eric Person. Photo credit: Dexter_Gordon at Mountain Winery Jazz Festival, Saratoga CA_1981 Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Celebrating the incomparable Dexter Gordon on the centenary of his birth, February 27, 2023, with the brilliant Eric Person. Photo credit: Dexter Gordon at Mountain Winery Jazz Festival, Saratoga CA_1981 Brianmcmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Jeff Beck arrived at a time when all the rules were being questioned. Unlike many of his contemporaries (and many in his audience), he never lost the sense of discovery in his music. Put an instrumental band together and get it played on the radio? Sure, why not? Collaborate with Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner? I'll try that! Introduce a whole new audience to the music of Charles Mingus? That's for me. And it never sounded stale or contrived or like the work of anyone else. Always, organically, Jeff Beck; his fans loved him for it. Jeff Beck, seemingly the eternally enthusiastic youngster, died this past January and a violent shockwave tore through the music community. No one was ready for him to go and so much felt unfinished. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org, guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Jeff Beck, with special attention to live recordings from the WKCR archives of his vibrant Seventies improvisations. Next week it goes up at the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JeffBeck #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview Photo credit: Jeff_Beck 1973 by Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0

Jeff Beck arrived at a time when all the rules were being questioned. Unlike many of his contemporaries (and many in his audience), he never lost the sense of discovery in his music. Put an instrumental band together and get it played on the radio? Sure, why not? Collaborate with Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner? I'll try that! Introduce a whole new audience to the music of Charles Mingus? That's for me. And it never sounded stale or contrived or like the work of anyone else. Always, organically, Jeff Beck; his fans loved him for it. Jeff Beck, seemingly the eternally enthusiastic youngster, died this past January and a violent shockwave tore through the music community. No one was ready for him to go and so much felt unfinished. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org, guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Jeff Beck, with special attention to live recordings from the WKCR archives of his vibrant Seventies improvisations. Next week it goes up at the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JeffBeck #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview Photo credit: Jeff_Beck 1973 by Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0

Jeff Beck arrived at a time when all the rules were being questioned. Unlike many of his contemporaries (and many in his audience), he never lost the sense of discovery in his music. Put an instrumental band together and get it played on the radio? Sure, why not? Collaborate with Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner? I'll try that! Introduce a whole new audience to the music of Charles Mingus? That's for me. And it never sounded stale or contrived or like the work of anyone else. Always, organically, Jeff Beck; his fans loved him for it. Jeff Beck, seemingly the eternally enthusiastic youngster, died this past January and a violent shockwave tore through the music community. No one was ready for him to go and so much felt unfinished. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org, guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Jeff Beck, with special attention to live recordings from the WKCR archives of his vibrant Seventies improvisations. Next week it goes up at the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JeffBeck #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview Photo credit: Jeff_Beck in 1979 - Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0 creative commons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Meet Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. In 1965, they traveled from West Germany to Le Chat Qui Pêche in Paris and found Don Cherry there. What flowed from that encounter is a tale of discovery and evolution that is still unfolding, still reaching new ears and new minds. Let's hear about it from them firsthand. Hey, have you got any music we've never heard, Mitch? Do I? Do I! #WKCR #DeepFocus #DonCherry #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #CompleteCommunion Photo credit: by Brian McMillen. Used by permission.

Meet Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. In 1965, they traveled from West Germany to Le Chat Qui Pêche in Paris and found Don Cherry there. What flowed from that encounter is a tale of discovery and evolution that is still unfolding, still reaching new ears and new minds. Let's hear about it from them firsthand. Hey, have you got any music we've never heard, Mitch? Do I? Do I! #WKCR #DeepFocus #DonCherry #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #CompleteCommunion Photo credit: by Mitch Goldman, copyright 1982. All rights reserved.

Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith." To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth. Brian Charette knows. He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity. On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was. It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview

Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith." To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth. Brian Charette knows. He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity. On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was. It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview

Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith." To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth. Brian Charette knows. He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity. On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was. It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: fair use. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted Song (which we absolutely love!) and tons of other off-center music had to come from someplace, but where? What inspires an emerging composer to take such brash risks and leaps of musical derring-do? Could it be from hearing one of Miles Davis' most outré bands at a formative age? Could there be a recording of such a show? Could there be a photograph of our young composer in the front row of the audience at such a show?!? COULD THAT BE HIM IN THIS PHOTO? The Shaboo Inn, in a remote corner of Connecticut, might have been the smallest venue Miles played in 1974 (he would play Carnegie Hall 2 months later). Even at that, even after canceling the first of 3 nights because Miles was too, er, "distracted," only 50 or 60 people showed up. So the stakes were low, Miles was high and the band (as ferocious a Murderers' Row as Miles ever assembled) was ready to eviscerate the songs that had been in the book for the previous 5 years. This one! THIS ONE, I tell ya! Tune in to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, along with hundreds of other episodes, on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #DavidSoldier #DaveSoldier #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: no publishing information available.

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted Song (which we absolutely love!) and tons of other off-center music had to come from someplace, but where? What inspires an emerging composer to take such brash risks and leaps of musical derring-do? Could it be from hearing one of Miles Davis' most outré bands at a formative age? Could there be a recording of such a show? Could there be a photograph of our young composer in the front row of the audience at such a show?!? COULD THAT BE HIM IN THIS PHOTO? The Shaboo Inn, in a remote corner of Connecticut, might have been the smallest venue Miles played in 1974 (he would play Carnegie Hall 2 months later). Even at that, even after canceling the first of 3 nights because Miles was too, er, "distracted," only 50 or 60 people showed up. So the stakes were low, Miles was high and the band (as ferocious a Murderers' Row as Miles ever assembled) was ready to eviscerate the songs that had been in the book for the previous 5 years. This one! THIS ONE, I tell ya! Tune in to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, along with hundreds of other episodes, on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #DavidSoldier #DaveSoldier #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: no publishing information available.

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted Song (which we absolutely love!) and tons of other off-center music had to come from someplace, but where? What inspires an emerging composer to take such brash risks and leaps of musical derring-do? Could it be from hearing one of Miles Davis' most outré bands at a formative age? Could there be a recording of such a show? Could there be a photograph of our young composer in the front row of the audience at such a show?!? COULD THAT BE HIM IN THIS PHOTO? The Shaboo Inn, in a remote corner of Connecticut, might have been the smallest venue Miles played in 1974 (he would play Carnegie Hall 2 months later). Even at that, even after canceling the first of 3 nights because Miles was too, er, "distracted," only 50 or 60 people showed up. So the stakes were low, Miles was high and the band (as ferocious a Murderers' Row as Miles ever assembled) was ready to eviscerate the songs that had been in the book for the previous 5 years. This one! THIS ONE, I tell ya! Tune in to WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, along with hundreds of other episodes, on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MilesDavis #DavidSoldier #DaveSoldier #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: no publishing information available.

In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard player? Check. Hard-swinging drummer? Check. Inventive electric bassist? Check. Fathomless well of creative ideas and the fearlessness to apply them? Check and double-check. One aspirant who was so moved by this that he picked up a guitar and never put it down was our guest, Vernon Reid. So did Santana ever play this music live? Did anyone think to record it? Did those recordings find their way to the WKCR archives? Does Vernon Reid have 50 years' worth of introspection on this music to share? Hmmm... One way to find out! Tune in to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus with guest Vernon Reid this Monday 11/28 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: Carlos Santana_1973 Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #CarlosSantana #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard player? Check. Hard-swinging drummer? Check. Inventive electric bassist? Check. Fathomless well of creative ideas and the fearlessness to apply them? Check and double-check. One aspirant who was so moved by this that he picked up a guitar and never put it down was our guest, Vernon Reid. So did Santana ever play this music live? Did anyone think to record it? Did those recordings find their way to the WKCR archives? Does Vernon Reid have 50 years' worth of introspection on this music to share? Hmmm... One way to find out! Tune in to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus with guest Vernon Reid this Monday 11/28 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #CarlosSantana #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard player? Check. Hard-swinging drummer? Check. Inventive electric bassist? Check. Fathomless well of creative ideas and the fearlessness to apply them? Check and double-check. One aspirant who was so moved by this that he picked up a guitar and never put it down was our guest, Vernon Reid. So did Santana ever play this music live? Did anyone think to record it? Did those recordings find their way to the WKCR archives? Does Vernon Reid have 50 years' worth of introspection on this music to share? Hmmm... One way to find out! Tune in to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus with guest Vernon Reid this Monday 11/28 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 or wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ Photo credit: Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #CarlosSantana #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb. Here's one definition: to change the orientation of something familiar so that it becomes unimaginably magnificent. Example: "I'm going to Lester Bowie this pebble and make a beautiful jewel out of it" or "I'm going to Lester Bowie these old tires into a holiday feast." It helps if you apply a bit of magic as Lester always seemed to manage to do. This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Eric Person and host Mitch Goldman put Lester Bowie in Deep Focus. While Lester may be more familiar from his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Brass Fantasy, Eric and Mitch are digging somewhat deeper. Once again, gems from the WKCR archives abound. Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #EricPerson #LesterBowie #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Robbie Drexhage, CC BY-SA 4.0 , attraverso Wikimedia Commons

"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb. Here's one definition: to change the orientation of something familiar so that it becomes unimaginably magnificent. Example: "I'm going to Lester Bowie this pebble and make a beautiful jewel out of it" or "I'm going to Lester Bowie these old tires into a holiday feast." It helps if you apply a bit of magic as Lester always seemed to manage to do. This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Eric Person and host Mitch Goldman put Lester Bowie in Deep Focus. While Lester may be more familiar from his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Brass Fantasy, Eric and Mitch are digging somewhat deeper. Once again, gems from the WKCR archives abound. Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #EricPerson #LesterBowie #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Lester Bowie, Sweet Basil, NYC by Anthony Barboza, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Fair use.

"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb. Here's one definition: to change the orientation of something familiar so that it becomes unimaginably magnificent. Example: "I'm going to Lester Bowie this pebble and make a beautiful jewel out of it" or "I'm going to Lester Bowie these old tires into a holiday feast." It helps if you apply a bit of magic as Lester always seemed to manage to do. This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Eric Person and host Mitch Goldman put Lester Bowie in Deep Focus. While Lester may be more familiar from his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Brass Fantasy, Eric and Mitch are digging somewhat deeper. Once again, gems from the WKCR archives abound. Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #DeepFocus #JazzAlternatives #EricPerson #LesterBowie #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Robbie Drexhage, CC BY-SA 4.0 , attraverso Wikimedia Commons

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015. The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame." Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies. A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members. This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard. Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light. WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave Photo credit: no publishing information available.

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015. The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame." Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies. A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members. This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard. Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light. WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave Photo credit: no publishing information available.

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015. The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame." Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies. A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members. This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard. Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light. WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org. Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com. #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave Photo credit: no publishing information available.

No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did. William Hooker heard the call through the music and it changed his life. William joins Mitch Goldman to remember this enduring moment of inspiration and to explore the WKCR archives. Jewels abound. The Pharoah Sanders Memorial Broadcast is all day Monday 9/26. This segment is 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #PharoahSanders #PharoahSandersMemorialBroadcast #WilliamHooker #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Pharoah Sanders by Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did. William Hooker heard the call through the music and it changed his life. William joins Mitch Goldman to remember this enduring moment of inspiration and to explore the WKCR archives. Jewels abound. The Pharoah Sanders Memorial Broadcast is all day Monday 9/26. This segment is 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #PharoahSanders #PharoahSandersMemorialBroadcast #WilliamHooker #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Pharoah Sanders by Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

No one will ever embody the concept of music as spiritual sustenance the way that Pharoah Sanders did. William Hooker heard the call through the music and it changed his life. William joins Mitch Goldman to remember this enduring moment of inspiration and to explore the WKCR archives. Jewels abound. The Pharoah Sanders Memorial Broadcast is all day Monday 9/26. This segment is 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #PharoahSanders #PharoahSandersMemorialBroadcast #WilliamHooker #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Pharoah Sanders by Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather than the other way around. Dollar Brand came of age as a pianist in South Africa in the late Fifties, just in time for the multiethnic explosion of Johannesburg's Sophiatown. In the wake of the repression that followed the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, he became a European exile. Within months, his music came to the attention of Duke Ellington who was so moved that he brought about the LP session Duke Ellington presents The Dollar Brand Trio on Frank Sinatra's Reprise label. Brand came to New York, subbed for Duke leading the Ellington Orchestra and attended Juilliard. But experiences with John Coltrane, Don Cherry and the progressive cadre of the Jazz world gave him a new appreciation of his African roots and he incorporated them into his music. He returned to South Africa, converted to Islam and became Abdullah Ibrahim. With these changes came a new style of music that embraced the multi-kulti, freedom-loving culture of his native Cape Town. His song "Mannenberg" became a theme for the anti-apartheid movement. After South African police fired on children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976, Ibrahim publicly came out in support of the African National Congress and subsequently returned to New York. Here he found a community of open-minded musicians and an audience that was supportive of his distinctively contemplative and deeply grooving music. After the Apartheid regime fell and Nelson Mandela became president, Ibrahim returned to Cape Town; In 2022, he is still recording and performing throughout the world. What's that you say? "Gary Lucas? That guy's a rocker! Who is he to talk about Abdullah Ibrahim?" A rocker? Guess what: so is Abdullah Ibrahim! Have you heard Gary's version of Ibrahim's "Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro"? You will have a whole different understanding of who both of these guys are. Besides, Gary Lucas is a true musical gourmand of the New York old school and I love to talk about music with him. I can't wait to hear what he has to say about his fellow iconoclast. As always, the WKCR archives have delivered some rare beauties for us to cherish. This Monday (Sept. 19) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AbdullahIbrahim #GaryLucas #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather than the other way around. Dollar Brand came of age as a pianist in South Africa in the late Fifties, just in time for the multiethnic explosion of Johannesburg's Sophiatown. In the wake of the repression that followed the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, he became a European exile. Within months, his music came to the attention of Duke Ellington who was so moved that he brought about the LP session Duke Ellington presents The Dollar Brand Trio on Frank Sinatra's Reprise label. Brand came to New York, subbed for Duke leading the Ellington Orchestra and attended Juilliard. But experiences with John Coltrane, Don Cherry and the progressive cadre of the Jazz world gave him a new appreciation of his African roots and he incorporated them into his music. He returned to South Africa, converted to Islam and became Abdullah Ibrahim. With these changes came a new style of music that embraced the multi-kulti, freedom-loving culture of his native Cape Town. His song "Mannenberg" became a theme for the anti-apartheid movement. After South African police fired on children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976, Ibrahim publicly came out in support of the African National Congress and subsequently returned to New York. Here he found a community of open-minded musicians and an audience that was supportive of his distinctively contemplative and deeply grooving music. After the Apartheid regime fell and Nelson Mandela became president, Ibrahim returned to Cape Town; In 2022, he is still recording and performing throughout the world. What's that you say? "Gary Lucas? That guy's a rocker! Who is he to talk about Abdullah Ibrahim?" A rocker? Guess what: so is Abdullah Ibrahim! Have you heard Gary's version of Ibrahim's "Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro"? You will have a whole different understanding of who both of these guys are. Besides, Gary Lucas is a true musical gourmand of the New York old school and I love to talk about music with him. I can't wait to hear what he has to say about his fellow iconoclast. As always, the WKCR archives have delivered some rare beauties for us to cherish. This Monday (Sept. 19) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AbdullahIbrahim #GaryLucas #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Every once in a while, an artist comes along who gets so caught up in the sweep of history that the world seems to create itself for the artist's work, rather than the other way around. Dollar Brand came of age as a pianist in South Africa in the late Fifties, just in time for the multiethnic explosion of Johannesburg's Sophiatown. In the wake of the repression that followed the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, he became a European exile. Within months, his music came to the attention of Duke Ellington who was so moved that he brought about the LP session Duke Ellington presents The Dollar Brand Trio on Frank Sinatra's Reprise label. Brand came to New York, subbed for Duke leading the Ellington Orchestra and attended Juilliard. But experiences with John Coltrane, Don Cherry and the progressive cadre of the Jazz world gave him a new appreciation of his African roots and he incorporated them into his music. He returned to South Africa, converted to Islam and became Abdullah Ibrahim. With these changes came a new style of music that embraced the multi-kulti, freedom-loving culture of his native Cape Town. His song "Mannenberg" became a theme for the anti-apartheid movement. After South African police fired on children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976, Ibrahim publicly came out in support of the African National Congress and subsequently returned to New York. Here he found a community of open-minded musicians and an audience that was supportive of his distinctively contemplative and deeply grooving music. After the Apartheid regime fell and Nelson Mandela became president, Ibrahim returned to Cape Town; In 2022, he is still recording and performing throughout the world. What's that you say? "Gary Lucas? That guy's a rocker! Who is he to talk about Abdullah Ibrahim?" A rocker? Guess what: so is Abdullah Ibrahim! Have you heard Gary's version of Ibrahim's "Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro"? You will have a whole different understanding of who both of these guys are. Besides, Gary Lucas is a true musical gourmand of the New York old school and I love to talk about music with him. I can't wait to hear what he has to say about his fellow iconoclast. As always, the WKCR archives have delivered some rare beauties for us to cherish. This Monday (Sept. 19) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AbdullahIbrahim #GaryLucas #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast Photo credit: Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an iconoclast. When the music was dismissed as being chaotic and structureless, Dixon was an aggressive organizer and conceptualist. Was this a whole new way of arranging sound to convey ideas? Graham Haynes worked with Bill Dixon late in Dixon's life and shares insights with host Mitch Goldman about the man and his music. The WKCR archives reveal recordings that even many of his greatest fans have not heard. Monday night Sept. 5 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, available on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BillDixon #GrahamHaynes #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast Photo credit: fair use.

Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an iconoclast. When the music was dismissed as being chaotic and structureless, Dixon was an aggressive organizer and conceptualist. Was this a whole new way of arranging sound to convey ideas? Graham Haynes worked with Bill Dixon late in Dixon's life and shares insights with host Mitch Goldman about the man and his music. The WKCR archives reveal recordings that even many of his greatest fans have not heard. Monday night Sept. 5 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, available on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BillDixon #GrahamHaynes #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast Photo credit: fair use.

Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an iconoclast. When the music was dismissed as being chaotic and structureless, Dixon was an aggressive organizer and conceptualist. Was this a whole new way of arranging sound to convey ideas? Graham Haynes worked with Bill Dixon late in Dixon's life and shares insights with host Mitch Goldman about the man and his music. The WKCR archives reveal recordings that even many of his greatest fans have not heard. Monday night Sept. 5 from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday the show goes up on the Deep Focus podcast, available on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BillDixon #GrahamHaynes #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast Photo credit: fair use.

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020. Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins Mitch in examining rare live recordings of the magnificent guitarist Pat Martino who we lost since our last live broadcast. If Pat Martino had not existed, some brilliant screenwriter would have had to make him up. But who would have ever believed such a crazy story? What other artist ever brought himself to the top of his game (a highwire act if ever there was one), then fell back to earth due to a near-fatal brain seizure (he had no recollection after it of guitar or even of his own family) and then started from the beginning to teach himself again to be "the guitarists' guitarist"? And too bad the movie could never be made because no one else could play with his flawless chops and immediacy. Pat Martino is an enduring model of how to live on the bandstand. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #PatMartino #BenTyree #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #MitchGoldman Photo credit: by Tom Beetz. This file is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0.

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020. Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins Mitch in examining rare live recordings of the magnificent guitarist Pat Martino who we lost since our last live broadcast. If Pat Martino had not existed, some brilliant screenwriter would have had to make him up. But who would have ever believed such a crazy story? What other artist ever brought himself to the top of his game (a highwire act if ever there was one), then fell back to earth due to a near-fatal brain malformation (he had no recollection after his surgery of guitar or even of his own family) and then started from the beginning to teach himself again to be "the guitarists' guitarist"? And too bad the movie could never be made because no one else could play with his flawless chops and immediacy. Pat Martino is an enduring model of how to live on the bandstand. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #PatMartino #BenTyree #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #MitchGoldman Photo credit: by Tom Beetz. This file is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0.

Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020. Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree joins Mitch in examining rare live recordings of the magnificent guitarist Pat Martino who we lost since our last live broadcast. If Pat Martino had not existed, some brilliant screenwriter would have had to make him up. But who would have ever believed such a crazy story? What other artist ever brought himself to the top of his game (a highwire act if ever there was one), then fell back to earth due to a near-fatal brain seizure (he had no recollection after it of guitar or even of his own family) and then started from the beginning to teach himself again to be "the guitarists' guitarist"? And too bad the movie could never be made because no one else could play with his flawless chops and immediacy. Pat Martino is an enduring model of how to live on the bandstand. This Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. The following Monday it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/ #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #PatMartino #BenTyree #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #MitchGoldman Photo credit: by Tom Beetz. This file is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0.