Deep Focus

2015.08.17 Melvin Gibbs on Ornette Coleman - 1 of 3

In the wake of Ornette Coleman's death in June of 2015, Mitch Goldman presented a series of Deep Focus episodes around his music.  This one, with bassist/bandleader Melvin Gibbs, one of the many alumni of Harmolodic High School, focuses on rare recordings from Prime Time in the critical year of 1978.   

 

Monday (7/25) from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and WKCR.Org.  

 

Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #OrnetteColeman #MelvinGibbs #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

2019.10.28 Ben Tyree on Vernon Reid - 3 of 3

This we love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject.  It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree has selected fellow plectrist Vernon Reid.

 

Even though Vernon Reid has reached the heights of recognition as an instrumentalist (for instance, Rolling Stone calling him one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time), Ben and host Mitch Goldman still think he is wildly underrated and they are going to prove it to you.  It's a rebroadcast of a highlight of 2019.  It features music originally performed in the WKCR studios as part of Charles Blass's Live Constructions and what seemed at the time to be Vernon Reid's personal salon, Tonic.  

 

Deep Focus this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. 

 

Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast 

 

Photo credit: Cygaretka real name: Matylda Sęk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, attraverso Wikimedia Commons

2019.10.28 Ben Tyree on Vernon Reid - 2 of 3

This we love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject.  It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree has selected fellow plectrist Vernon Reid.

 

Even though Vernon Reid has reached the heights of recognition as an instrumentalist (for instance, Rolling Stone calling him one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time), Ben and host Mitch Goldman still think he is wildly underrated and they are going to prove it to you.  It's a rebroadcast of a highlight of 2019 and it features music originally performed in the WKCR studios as part of Charles Blass's Live Constructions.  

 

Deep Focus this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. 

 

Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast 

 

Photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, attraverso Wikimedia Commons

2019.10.28 Ben Tyree on Vernon Reid - 1 of 3

This we love: when a guest on Deep Focus chooses a previous guest as the subject.  It's only happened once before but it's happening again on Monday: guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree has selected fellow plectrist Vernon Reid.

 

Even though Vernon Reid has reached the heights of recognition as an instrumentalist (for instance, Rolling Stone calling him one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time), Ben and host Mitch Goldman still think he is wildly underrated and they are going to prove it to you.  It's a rebroadcast of a highlight of 2019 and it features music originally performed in the WKCR studios as part of Charles Blass's Live Constructions as well as from what seemed at the time to be Vernon Reid's personal salon, Tonic.  

 

Deep Focus this Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. 

 

Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #VernonReid #BenTyree #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast 

 

Photo credit: Cygaretka real name: Matylda Sęk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, attraverso Wikimedia Commons

2018.03.19 William Hooker on Sunny Murray - 3 of 3

Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music.   In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow drummer/composer William Hooker thinks (and feels) as deeply about the role of drums as anyone we have heard speak on the topic.  Special guest appearance from reedman/scholar Ras Moshe.  

 

This Monday night (6/13) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org.

 

Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at our hosting site https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

You can also find out more about the show and search for past episodes here: https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

 

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2018.03.19 William Hooker on Sunny Murray - 2 of 3

Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music.   In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow drummer/composer William Hooker thinks (and feels) as deeply about the role of drums as anyone we have heard speak on the topic.  Special guest appearance from reedman/scholar Ras Moshe.  

 

This Monday night (6/13) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org.

 

Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at our hosting site https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

You can also find out more about the show and search for past episodes here: https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

 

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2018.03.19 William Hooker on Sunny Murray - 1 of 3

Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music.   In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow drummer/composer William Hooker thinks (and feels) as deeply about the role of drums as anyone we have heard speak on the topic.  Special guest appearance from reedman/scholar Ras Moshe.  

 

This Monday night (6/13) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org.

 

Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at our hosting site https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

You can also find out more about the show and search for past episodes here: https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/

 

And a special mention: William Hooker's feature-length documentary, "the Lost Generation: Outside the Mainstream" is showing at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. NYC, this Sunday, June 19th, 2022 7:00 PM 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #RasMoshe #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

2015.10.26 Ben Perowsky on Miles Davis 1967 - 3 of 3

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer/bandleader Ben Perowsky.  They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in Deep Focus with unreleased live recordings.  When Sony put out “Live in Europe 1967,” Pitchfork said, “It isn’t just the best band Miles ever led, but one of the choicest small groups in jazz history… At its heart, jazz thrives on bold, sensitive interaction in the moment, and Live in Europe 1967 represents the pinnacle of that practice.”  That may well be but the whole story has not been told.  We can’t wait to hear what Ben Perowsky has to say about these recordings from the  WKCR archives.

 

Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.  Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/  

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BenPerowksy #MilesDavis #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

 

Photo credit: Miles Davis  User:JPRoche, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

2015.10.26 Ben Perowsky on Miles Davis -2 of 3

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer/bandleader Ben Perowsky.  They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in Deep Focus with unreleased live recordings.  When Sony put out “Live in Europe 1967,” Pitchfork said, “It isn’t just the best band Miles ever led, but one of the choicest small groups in jazz history… At its heart, jazz thrives on bold, sensitive interaction in the moment, and Live in Europe 1967 represents the pinnacle of that practice.”  That may well be but the whole story has not been told.  We can’t wait to hear what Ben Perowsky has to say about these recordings from the  WKCR archives.

 

Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.  Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/  

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BenPerowksy #MilesDavis #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

 

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Title: Miles Davis
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:npg_NPG.2001.48

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 Miles Davis

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 Not determined

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 National Portrait Gallery

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 Max Jacoby, 1919 - 2009

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 Miles Dewey Davis, 25 May 1926 - 28 Sep 1991

 

2015.10.26 Ben Perowsky on Miles Davis - 1 of 3

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer/bandleader Ben Perowsky.  They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in Deep Focus with unreleased live recordings.  When Sony put out “Live in Europe 1967,” Pitchfork said, “It isn’t just the best band Miles ever led, but one of the choicest small groups in jazz history… At its heart, jazz thrives on bold, sensitive interaction in the moment, and Live in Europe 1967 represents the pinnacle of that practice.”  That may well be but the whole story has not been told.  We can’t wait to hear what Ben Perowsky has to say about these recordings from the  WKCR archives.

 

Only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.  Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/  

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BenPerowksy #MilesDavis #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

 

Photo credit: Miles Davis  User:JPRoche, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons