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March 18, 20242020.03.02 Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard - 2 of 3
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 what about when they’re the guy down the street? Or the dad of your elementary school friend? How does that change the perspective?
Cornetist Graham Haynes grew up down the block from the magnificent Jaki Byard, one of the all-time great pianist/arranger/educators and one of the most engaging characters ever on the bandstand. Stories? Graham’s got stories!
Join host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (March 3) from 6pm to 9pm NYC-time on WKCR 89.9FM. WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org
1 hr 1 min
March 10, 2024 2020.03.02 Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard - 1 of 3
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 what about when they’re the guy down the street? Or the dad of your elementary school friend? How does that change the perspective?
Cornetist Graham Haynes grew up down the block from the magnificent Jaki Byard, one of the all-time great pianist/arranger/educators and one of the most engaging characters ever on the bandstand. Stories? Graham’s got stories!
Join host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (March 3) from 6pm to 9pm NYC-time on WKCR 89.9FM. WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org
1 hr 7 min
March 03, 2024 2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 3 of 3
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 night (Feb 5)?
Will they be recordings that you've never heard?
Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker?

Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, 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/

Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010.

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
1 hr 11 min
February 25, 2024 2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 2 of 3
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 night (Feb 5)?
Will they be recordings that you've never heard?
Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker?

Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, 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/

Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010.

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
57 min
February 18, 2024 2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 1 of 3
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 night (Feb 5)?
Will they be recordings that you've never heard?
Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker?

Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, 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/

Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010.

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
1 hr 4 min
February 11, 2024 2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 3 of 3
Tonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR. Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage.

Tonight Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter and bon vivant, Steven Bernstein are blowing the dust off of those tapes.
Will they play?
What's on them?
What was Don Cherry's voice like?
What kind of music will he play?
What sort of stories will these tapes tell?
Does he have additional guests?

Slow down! All will be revealed tonight on WKCR 89.9FM, 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/

Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

Photo credit: Mitch Goldman 2024.

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
1 hr 6 min
February 04, 2024 2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 2 of 3
Tonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR. Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage.

Tonight Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter and bon vivant, Steven Bernstein are blowing the dust off of those tapes.
Will they play?
What's on them?
What was Don Cherry's voice like?
What kind of music will he play?
What sort of stories will these tapes tell?
Does he have additional guests?

Slow down! All will be revealed tonight on WKCR 89.9FM, 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/

Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

Photo credit: Don Cherry - by jazzenthusiast, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
1 hr 3 min
January 28, 2024 2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 1 of 3
Tonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR. Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties-NYC-Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage.

Tonight Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter and bon vivant, Steven Bernstein are blowing the dust off of those tapes.
Will they play?
What's on them?
What was Don Cherry's voice like?
What kind of music will he play?
What sort of stories will these tapes tell?
Does he have additional guests?

Slow down! All will be revealed tonight on WKCR 89.9FM, 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/

Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

Photo credit: Mitch Goldman 2024.

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
1 hr 3 min
January 21, 2024 2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Hampton Hawes, Mulatu Astatke - 3 of 3
This music is at its best when the artist is telling you exactly who they are. Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal mindscape of thoughts, puzzles and emotions. Whether alone or in an ensemble, in both his playing and his writing, he did so with an articulateness that could seem offhand but betrayed a distinct precision. It was just... him.

Multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum knew Andrew Hill and draws inspiration from him to this day. Host Mitch Goldman is going to ask him if he really was the way he seemed in his music. Did he talk the way he played? Once again, the WKCR archives come through with gobsmacking rarities from both the early Seventies and the early 2000s.

This Monday Jan. 8 on WKCR 89.9FM, 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/

Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

Photo credit: Hampton Hawes - cover of Raise Up Off Me.

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #PeterApfelbaum #AndrewHill #AndrewHillJazz #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
1 hr
January 14, 2024 2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Andrew Hill, Hampton Hawes - 2 of 3
This music is at its best when the artist is telling you exactly who they are. Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal mindscape of thoughts, puzzles and emotions. Whether alone or in an ensemble, in both his playing and his writing, he did so with an articulateness that could seem offhand but betrayed a distinct precision. It was just... him.

Multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum knew Andrew Hill and draws inspiration from him to this day. Host Mitch Goldman is going to ask him if he really was the way he seemed in his music. Did he talk the way he played? Once again, the WKCR archives come through with gobsmacking rarities from both the early Seventies and the early 2000s.

This Monday Jan. 8 on WKCR 89.9FM, 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/

Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

Photo credit: Andrew Hill by Francis Wolff from AndrewHillJazz.com.

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #PeterApfelbaum #AndrewHill #AndrewHillJazz #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast
1 hr 3 min