Deep Focus

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

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

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

 

 

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

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 in 1979 - Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0 creative commons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Meet Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso.  In 1965, they traveled from West Germany to Le Chat Qui Pêche in Paris and found Don Cherry there.  What flowed from that encounter is a tale of discovery and evolution that is still unfolding, still reaching new ears and new minds.  Let's hear about it from them firsthand. 

Hey, have you got any music we've never heard, Mitch?  Do I?  Do I!

#WKCR #DeepFocus #DonCherry #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #CompleteCommunion

Photo credit: by Brian McMillen.  Used by permission.

Meet Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso.  In 1965, they traveled from West Germany to Le Chat Qui Pêche in Paris and found Don Cherry there.  What flowed from that encounter is a tale of discovery and evolution that is still unfolding, still reaching new ears and new minds.  Let's hear about it from them firsthand. 

Hey, have you got any music we've never heard, Mitch?  Do I?  Do I!

#WKCR #DeepFocus #DonCherry #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #CompleteCommunion

Photo credit: by Mitch Goldman, copyright 1982.  All rights reserved.

Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it.  The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith."  To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth.

 

Brian Charette knows.  He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity.  On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was.

 

It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 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 #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview

Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it.  The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith."  To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth.

 

Brian Charette knows.  He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity.  On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was.

 

It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 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 #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview

Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it.  The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headliner and earned him the nickname "The Incredible Jimmy Smith."  To this day, no one in the Jazz idiom can sit down at a Hammond B3 without contending with his influence or his very life force, even 17 years after he left this earth.

 

Brian Charette knows.  He has been in the top 10 in Downbeat Magazine's critics' poll of best organ players for most of the last 10 years because he is a player of wit, passion, and intensity.  On this Monday's Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman will lead Brian through the WKCR archives and ask him to show us what kind of live performer The Incredible Jimmy Smith really was.

 

It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org Monday night from 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 #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #JimmySmith #BrianCharette #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodast #JazzInterview