Deep Focus

2023.05.08 Mark Whitfield on Wes Montgomery - 2 of 3

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

2023.05.08 Mark Whitfield on Wes Montgomery - 1 of 3

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

2023.05.01 Daniel Sadownick on Andrew Cyrille - 3 of 3

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 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor 

2023.05.01 Daniel Sadownick on Andrew Cyrille - 2 of 3

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 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor 

2023.05.01 Daniel Sadownick on Andrew Cyrille - 1 of 3

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 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #AndrewCyrille #DanielSadownick #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #CecilTaylor 

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

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

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

 

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

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