Deep Focus

It's after the end of the world.  Don't you know that yet?  Host Mitch Goldman and saxophonist Eric Person put Sun Ra in Deep Focus tonight (5/2) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org in a rebroadcast from Sun Ra's 2014 centennial broadcast.  And what of those WKCR archives?  Bones.  Nothing but love bones!

 

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

 

Free prizes, chosen just for you!

 

#WKCR #SunRa #EricPerson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast 

 

Photo credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1927 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. 

It's after the end of the world.  Don't you know that yet?  Host Mitch Goldman and saxophonist Eric Person put Sun Ra in Deep Focus tonight (5/2) on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD1 and wkcr.org in a rebroadcast from Sun Ra's 2014 centennial broadcast.  And what of those WKCR archives?  Bones.  Nothing but love bones!

 

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

 

Free prizes, chosen just for you!

 

#WKCR #SunRa #EricPerson #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast 

 

Photo credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1927 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. 

This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000’s. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock.  Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we’ve got the goods to prove it!  In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.  

This Monday night (4/11) 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 #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave 

 

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This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000’s. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock.  Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we’ve got the goods to prove it!  In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.  

This Monday night (4/11) 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 #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave 

 

Photo credit: no publishing information available. 

This time it’s personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf’s Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000’s. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock.  Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we’ve got the goods to prove it!  In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.  

This Monday night (4/11) 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 #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave 

 

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There is no living artist in the Jazz firmament more revered than Sonny Rollins.  He is admired for, among other things, eluding his audience's expectations of him.  Never was this more true than on July 19, 1985 when he performed a set entirely unaccompanied in the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art.  Listening to this set, the listener gets to hear Sonny working the puzzles, rebuses, puns and equations that inform his best improvisations.  It is as revealing as the glass and steel structure of the modern buildings that surrounded MoMA.  

 

And who was it that invited Sonny Rollins to do that performance? None other than WKCR alumnus Andy Caploe.  On this Deep Focus from 2015, Andy and I listen to that set, as well as some other Rollins prizes from the WKCR archive.  Andy offers memories and insights that can only come from one who was present at the moment of creation.  Trigger warning: Andy and I were having way too much fun.  Our recommendation: join in!

 

On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wckr.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 #SonnyRollins #AndyCaploe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

 

Photo credit: Sonny Rollins  by Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org licenses-by-sa-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

 

There is no living artist in the Jazz firmament more revered than Sonny Rollins.  He is admired for, among other things, eluding his audience's expectations of him.  Never was this more true than on July 19, 1985 when he performed a set entirely unaccompanied in the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art.  Listening to this set, the listener gets to hear Sonny working the puzzles, rebuses, puns and equations that inform his best improvisations.  It is as revealing as the glass and steel structure of the modern buildings that surrounded MoMA.  

 

And who was it that invited Sonny Rollins to do that performance? None other than WKCR alumnus Andy Caploe.  On this Deep Focus from 2015, Andy and I listen to that set, as well as some other Rollins prizes from the WKCR archive.  Andy offers memories and insights that can only come from one who was present at the moment of creation.  Trigger warning: Andy and I were having way too much fun.  Our recommendation: join in!

 

On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wckr.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 #SonnyRollins #AndyCaploe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

 

Photo credit: Sonny Rollins  by Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org licenses-by-sa-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

 

There is no living artist in the Jazz firmament more revered than Sonny Rollins.  He is admired for, among other things, eluding his audience's expectations of him.  Never was this more true than on July 19, 1985 when he performed a set entirely unaccompanied in the Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art.  Listening to this set, the listener gets to hear Sonny working the puzzles, rebuses, puns and equations that inform his best improvisations.  It is as revealing as the glass and steel structure of the modern buildings that surrounded MoMA.  

 

And who was it that invited Sonny Rollins to do that performance? None other than WKCR alumnus Andy Caploe.  On this Deep Focus from 2015, Andy and I listen to that set, as well as some other Rollins prizes from the WKCR archive.  Andy offers memories and insights that can only come from one who was present at the moment of creation.  Trigger warning: Andy and I were having way too much fun.  Our recommendation: join in!

 

On WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wckr.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 #SonnyRollins #AndyCaploe #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

 

Photo credit: Sonny Rollins  by Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org licenses-by-sa-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

 

Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Weather Report... All created challenging instrumental music in the Seventies, all had large, dedicated audiences and all have been the subject of Deep Focus. Add tonight's subject to that list.

 

Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree and I will put Frank Zappa in Deep Focus Monday from 6 pm to 9 pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org in this rebroadcast from 2019.  I'm amazed that no one has called for this one before!

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BenTyree #FrankZappa 

 

Photo credit: Frank Zappa_in_glory Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org licenses by-sa 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Weather Report... All created challenging instrumental music in the Seventies, all had large, dedicated audiences and all have been the subject of Deep Focus. Add tonight's subject to that list.

 

Guitarist/sonic architect Ben Tyree and I will put Frank Zappa in Deep Focus Monday from 6 pm to 9 pm EDT on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org in this rebroadcast from 2019.  I'm amazed that no one has called for this one before!

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BenTyree #FrankZappa 

 

Photo credit: Frank Zappa 1973_2 Discreet Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.jpeg