Deep Focus

2019.02.04 Eric Person on Jimmy Lyons 1 of 3

Say the name “Jimmy Lyons” to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that Lyons’ work on alto sax brought to Taylor’s music was one of the most fruitful and enduring in the history of the music. But Eric Person knows that Lyons was also a bandleader in his own right and that, while he will always be associated with the ferocious innovator with whom he played for 20 years, had the two never met, we would still be talking about Lyons 30+ years after his death. His sound and his concept are without compare.

 

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2018.02.19 Eric Person on Geri Allen 3 of 3

Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as long as there is breath. Others seem to be on an eternal search for new ways of expressing and identifying themselves; Geri Allen was one of these. Maybe that is part of why the death of this brilliant, soulful, inventive pianist in 2017 at age 60 was so heartbreaking for the music world. She hadn’t finished! There was so much left to say.

We continue our month of Deep Focus programs with composer/bandleader/reed man Eric Person.  In this rebroadcast from 2018, he and host Mitch Goldman will explore the supergroup Geri Allen co-led with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Charlie Haden. Oh, this is the good stuff!

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #GeriAllen #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast

 

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2018.02.19 Eric Person on Geri Allen 2 of 3

Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as long as there is breath. Others seem to be on an eternal search for new ways of expressing and identifying themselves; Geri Allen was one of these. Maybe that is part of why the death of this brilliant, soulful, inventive pianist in 2017 at age 60 was so heartbreaking for the music world. She hadn’t finished! There was so much left to say.

 

We continue our month of Deep Focus programs with composer/bandleader/reed man Eric Person.  In this rebroadcast from 2018, he and host Mitch Goldman will explore the supergroup Geri Allen co-led with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Charlie Haden. Oh, this is the good stuff!

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #GeriAllen #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast

 

Photo credit: Pittsburgh's City Paper.

2018.02.19 Eric Person on Geri Allen 1 of 3

Some musicians seem to emerge fully formed. It’s as if they just show up doing what they do and reliably keep doing it as long as there is breath. Others seem to be on an eternal search for new ways of expressing and identifying themselves; Geri Allen was one of these. Maybe that is part of why the death of this brilliant, soulful, inventive pianist in 2017 at age 60 was so heartbreaking for the music world. She hadn’t finished! There was so much left to say.

 

We continue our month of Deep Focus programs with composer/bandleader/reed man Eric Anthony Person.  In this rebroadcast from 2018, he and host Mitch Goldman explore the supergroup Geri Allen co-led with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Charlie Haden. Oh, this is the good stuff!

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #GeriAllen #EricPerson #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast

 

Photo credit: Pittsburgh's City Paper.

2013.08.12 Eric Person on Sonny Rollins 3 of 3

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.

 

#mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus

#Sonny Rollins

 

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2013.08.12 Eric Person on Sonny Rollins 2 of 3

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.

 

#mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus

#Sonny Rollins

 

 

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2013.08.12 Eric Person on Sonny Rollins 1 of 3

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person
will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.

 

#mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus

#SonnyRollins 

 

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2017.03.06 Eric Person on Woody Shaw 3 of 3

In the Jazz world of utterly distinctive individuals, trumpeter Woody Shaw still managed to stand out. He didn’t speak like everybody else, he didn’t move like everybody else (the hours of tai chi that he would do-- sometimes right in the audience of a performance venue-- might have had something to do with that), he didn’t think like everybody else and he certainly didn’t play like anybody else. When saxophonist Eric Anthony Person

and host Mitch Goldman were coming up, his live shows were not to be missed.

This is going to be a barnburner!

#WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #WoodyShaw #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast

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2017.03.06 Eric Person on Woody Shaw 2 of 3

In the Jazz world of utterly distinctive individuals, trumpeter Woody Shaw still managed to stand out. He didn’t speak like everybody else, he didn’t move like everybody else (the hours of tai chi that he would do-- sometimes right in the audience of a performance venue-- might have had something to do with that), he didn’t think like everybody else and he certainly didn’t play like anybody else. When saxophonist Eric Anthony Person

and host Mitch Goldman were coming up, his live shows were not to be missed.

This is going to be a barnburner!

#WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #WoodyShaw #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast

Photo credit: Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

2017.03.06 Eric Person on Woody Shaw 1 of 3

In the Jazz world of utterly distinctive individuals, trumpeter Woody Shaw still managed to stand out. He didn’t speak like everybody else, he didn’t move like everybody else (the hours of tai chi that he would do-- sometimes right in the audience of a performance venue-- might have had something to do with that), he didn’t think like everybody else and he certainly didn’t play like anybody else. When saxophonist Eric Anthony Person

and host Mitch Goldman were coming up, his live shows were not to be missed.

This is going to be a barnburner!

#WKCR #DeepFocus #EricPerson #WoodyShaw #MitchGoldman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast

Photo credit: Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons