Host Mitch Goldman and his musician-guest explore rare archival recordings of one of the guest’s favorite artists.
Episodes
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
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!
Photo credit: Bryan Thompson, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org-licenses-by-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
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!
Photo credit: Pittsburgh's City Paper.
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
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!
Photo credit: Pittsburgh's City Paper.
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
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.
Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
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.
Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
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.
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.
Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
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
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
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
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
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
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
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
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
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Vocalist Lezlie Harrison is my guest for a Deep Focus on Abbey Lincoln. Achingly beautiful recordings of Abbey that you have never heard and Lezlie lifts the veil on Abbey in a whole new way.
Come thru!
#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #AbbeyLincoln #LezlieHarrison #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #jazzpodcast
Photo credit: Jac. de Nijs / Anefo; Restoration by User:Adam Cuerden, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons