Host Mitch Goldman and his musician-guest explore rare archival recordings of one of the guest’s favorite artists.
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May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021
1hr 21 min
On the next Deep Focus, the band that rewrote all the rules, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt. Bassist Oren Bloedow joins host Mitch Goldman, not to listen to the band's narrow studio discography, but to revel in some of the live shows from the early Eighties that made this band one of the world's most notorious dance floor destroyers (and little did those gambolers realize that they were grooving to the trombone skronker from the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group... OR DID THEY?!).
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May 15, 2021
May 15, 2021
29 min
People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The way they talk? Is it in their music? Are New York drummers a distinct group? Drummer Ben Perowsky says there’s no doubt about it, and who is a better example of it than native New Yorker Al Foster? On tonight’s Deep Focus, Ben and host Mitch Goldman will listen to rare recordings of Al with Miles Davis and with Joe Henderson from the WKCR archives.
Photo credit: Al_Foster Giacomo Petronio Trieste, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
May 13, 2021
May 13, 2021
1hr 15 min
People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The way they talk? Is it in their music? Are New York drummers a distinct group? Drummer Ben Perowsky says there’s no doubt about it, and who is a better example of it than native New Yorker Al Foster? On tonight’s Deep Focus, Ben and host Mitch Goldman will listen to rare recordings of Al with Miles Davis and with Joe Henderson from the WKCR archives.
Photo credit: Al_Foster Giacomo Petronio Trieste, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
May 11, 2021
May 11, 2021
1hr 18 min
People talk about “the rhythm of New York.” Is there really such a thing? Can you see it in the way people walk? The way they talk? Is it in their music? Are New York drummers a distinct group? Drummer Ben Perowsky says there’s no doubt about it, and who is a better example of it than native New Yorker Al Foster? On tonight’s Deep Focus, Ben and host Mitch Goldman will listen to rare recordings of Al with Miles Davis and with Joe Henderson from the WKCR archives.
Photo credit: Al_Foster Giacomo Petronio Trieste, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-sa-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
May 8, 2021
May 8, 2021
29 min
Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: The One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? WOT?!
"Is he serious?"
"I guess he must be. I mean, he definitely said it."
"Well, I have to hear this...".
May 6, 2021
May 6, 2021
1hr 19 min
Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: The One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? WOT?!
"Is he serious?"
"I guess he must be. I mean, he definitely said it."
"Well, I have to hear this...".
May 4, 2021
May 4, 2021
1hr 19 min
Liberty Ellman on John McLaughlin part 2: The One Truth Band? Zakir Hussain? Trilok Gurtu? Miles Davis?? WOT?!
"Is he serious?"
"I guess he must be. I mean, he definitely said it."
"Well, I have to hear this...".
May 1, 2021
May 1, 2021
29 min
Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension and all attributes," you'd better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, your stuff had better be incontrovertibly immaculate. You had better be doing something no one else has ever done and that no one else will do for at least another 50 years. You would look like a complete ass if you delivered anything less than that nearly impossible achievement.
In this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016 with guest Liberty Ellman, find out if John McLaughlin is revered to this day by every knowledgeable plectrist or is a complete laughing stock (hint: no one's laughing and Mahavishnu Orchestra's reign is unending).
And do the WKCR archives deliver unassailable evidence that even the band's greatest fans have never heard? What kind of a question is that?!
#WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #LibertyEllman #JohnMcLaughlin #MahavishnuOrchestra #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: JohnMcLaughlin - Zirkus Krone, Munich, West Germany - 1973 June 9 PublicDomain File
Apr 29, 2021
Apr 29, 2021
1hr 19 min
Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension and all attributes," you'd better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, your stuff had better be incontrovertibly immaculate. You had better be doing something no one else has ever done and that no one else will do for at least another 50 years. You would look like a complete ass if you delivered anything less than that nearly impossible achievement.
In this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016 with guest Liberty Ellman, find out if John McLaughlin is revered to this day by every knowledgeable plectrist or is a complete laughing stock (hint: no one's laughing and Mahavishnu Orchestra's reign is unending).
And do the WKCR archives deliver unassailable evidence that even the band's greatest fans have never heard? What kind of a question is that?!
#WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #LibertyEllman #JohnMcLaughlin #MahavishnuOrchestra #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: JohnMcLaughlin - Zirkus Krone, Munich, West Germany - 1973 June 9 PublicDomain File
Apr 27, 2021
Apr 27, 2021
1hr 16 min
Just a suggestion: if you're going to name your band (in Hindi), "Absolute protector of the universe beyond human comprehension and all attributes," you'd better have the nuts to back it up. I mean, your stuff had better be incontrovertibly immaculate. You had better be doing something no one else has ever done and that no one else will do for at least another 50 years. You would look like a complete ass if you delivered anything less than that nearly impossible achievement.
In this edition of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2016 with guest Liberty Ellman, find out if John McLaughlin is revered to this day by every knowledgeable plectrist or is a complete laughing stock (hint: no one's laughing and Mahavishnu Orchestra's reign is unending).
And do the WKCR archives deliver unassailable evidence that even the band's greatest fans have never heard? What kind of a question is that?!
#WKCR #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #LibertyEllman #JohnMcLaughlin #MahavishnuOrchestra #JazzRadio #JazzInterview
Photo credit: JohnMcLaughlin - Zirkus Krone, Munich, West Germany - 1973 June 9 PublicDomain File