Deep Focus

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

 

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

 

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

 

This music is at its best when the artist is showing 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

 

"Rock." "Jazz." "Classical." "Blues."  We rarely question the value of categorizing music.  These words are handy buckets to drop songs into: "I like this but I don't like that."  Occasionally, an artist will come along and smudge the lines between them and these are often the artists we celebrate on Deep Focus.  

 

Tru Born (a.k.a. Anthony Michael Peterson) takes this line of exploration quite a bit further.  He wants to know what was the human experience and the creative response to it that created that sort of music in the first place.  Looked at this way, why and how it became codified as a genre less interesting than getting to the point of origin.  "Finding the thread," as Tru might say. 

Tru Born joins host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (11/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web.  Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

Photo credit: John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the blues, 1951 by Clemens Kalischer - fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act.

 

 #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #TruBorn #AnthonyMichaelPeterson #JohnLeeHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman 

 

"Rock." "Jazz." "Classical." "Blues."  We rarely question the value of categorizing music.  These words are handy buckets to drop songs into: "I like this but I don't like that."  Occasionally, an artist will come along and smudge the lines between them and these are often the artists we celebrate on Deep Focus.  

 

Tru Born (a.k.a. Anthony Michael Peterson) takes this line of exploration quite a bit further.  He wants to know what was the human experience and the creative response to it that created that sort of music in the first place.  Looked at this way, why and how it became codified as a genre less interesting than getting to the point of origin.  "Finding the thread," as Tru might say. 

Tru Born joins host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (11/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web.  Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

Photo credit: John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the blues, 1951 by Clemens Kalischer - fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act.

 

 #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #TruBorn #AnthonyMichaelPeterson #JohnLeeHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman 

 

"Rock." "Jazz." "Classical." "Blues."  We rarely question the value of categorizing music.  These words are handy buckets to drop songs into: "I like this but I don't like that."  Occasionally, an artist will come along and smudge the lines between them and these are often the artists we celebrate on Deep Focus.  

 

Tru Born (a.k.a. Anthony Michael Peterson) takes this line of exploration quite a bit further.  He wants to know what was the human experience and the creative response to it that created that sort of music in the first place.  Looked at this way, why and how it became codified as a genre are less interesting than getting to the point of origin.  "Finding the thread," as Tru might say. 

Tru Born joins host Mitch Goldman on Deep Focus this Monday (11/27) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org on the web.  Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

Photo credit: John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the blues, 1951 by Clemens Kalischer - fair use under Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act.

 

 #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #TruBorn #AnthonyMichaelPeterson #JohnLeeHooker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman 

Bassist Mark Peterson joins me tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR (89.9FM and wkcr.org) in a Deep Focus on German bassist/bandleader Eberhard Weber. Weber is a wholly distinctive musical thinker. Hmmmm… what ELSE do he and Mark have in common? This one is going to be fun!

#WKCR #MarkPeterson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzPodcast #JamesBloodUlmer #StanleyClarke #JohnnieJohnson

Bassist Mark Peterson joins me tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR (89.9FM and wkcr.org) in a Deep Focus on German bassist/bandleader Eberhard Weber. Weber is a wholly distinctive musical thinker. Hmmmm… what ELSE do he and Mark have in common? This one is going to be fun!

 

#WKCR #MarkPeterson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzPodcast #JamesBloodUlmer #StanleyClarke #JohnnieJohnson

Bassist Mark Peterson joins me tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR (89.9FM and wkcr.org) in a Deep Focus on German bassist/bandleader Eberhard Weber. Weber is a wholly distinctive musical thinker. Hmmmm… what ELSE do he and Mark have in common? This one is going to be fun!

 

#WKCR #MarkPeterson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzPodcast #JamesBloodUlmer #StanleyClarke #JohnnieJohnson