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Deep Focus episodes

April 02, 2023 2023.03.20 Ras Moshe on Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - 3 of 3
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
46 min
March 30, 2023 2023.03.20 Ras Moshe on Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - 2 of 3
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
1 hr 7 min
March 27, 2023 2023.03.20 Ras Moshe on Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - 1 of 3
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
1 hr 12 min
March 26, 2023 2023.03.06 Rodney Jones on Wes Montgomery - 3 of 3
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
55 min
March 23, 2023 2023.03.06 Rodney Jones on Wes Montgomery - 2 of 3
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
1 hr 21 min
March 20, 2023 2023.03.06 Rodney Jones on Wes Montgomery - 1 of 3
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
1 hr 8 min
March 19, 2023 2023.02.27 Eric Person on Dexter Gordon - 3 of 3
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
1 hr 22 min
March 16, 2023 2023.02.27 Eric Person on Dexter Gordon - 2 of 3
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
1 hr 1 min
March 13, 2023 2023.02.27 Eric Person on Dexter Gordon - 1 of 3
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
1 hr 4 min
March 06, 2023 2023.02.20 Ben Tyree on Jeff Beck - 3 of 3
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

1 hr 9 min