Deep Focus

Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in the world"?  The correct answer to that question is, "No, it would not!"  That would be leaving out his truly distinctive system of musical organization, the bands of acolytes who have interpreted his work,  the number of instruments he has mastered and performed on and, especially, the savage, detonating beauty of his music, the way he evokes nature's simplicity and complexity through sound.  You've never heard anything like it.  

 

And there is no one better to take us through this music than Leon Gruenbaum.  Like Hermeto, Leon is a composer, a bandleader, an inventor of musical instruments and systems of exquisite wonder.  They have both lived in New York and in Brazil... Wait a minute: this is like that Kennedy-Lincoln thing!  Come check it out -

 

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Arturo O’Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in everything he does. When host Mitch Goldman asked him for a topic for Deep Focus, his response consisted of two equally surprising options: either Steely Dan or Olivier Messiaen. Well, Messiaen is going to have to wait; Steely Dan won the day.  

What's that you say? You're not a Steely Dan fan?!  Probably because you haven't heard a proper Jazz man's take on them at the top of their game. 

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #ArturoO'Farrill #SteelyDan #JazzRadio #JazzInterview

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Arturo O’Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in everything he does. When host Mitch Goldman asked him for a topic for Deep Focus, his response consisted of two equally surprising options: either Steely Dan or Olivier Messiaen. Well, Messiaen is going to have to wait; Steely Dan won the day.  

What's that you say? You're not a Steely Dan fan?!  Probably because you haven't heard a proper Jazz man's take on them at the top of their game. 

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #ArturoOFarrill #SteelyDan #JazzRadio #JazzInterview

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Arturo O’Farrill, as a bandleader and as a citizen of the world, is an informed and thoughtful man; it shines through in everything he does. When host Mitch Goldman asked him for a topic for Deep Focus, his response consisted of two equally surprising options: either Steely Dan or Olivier Messiaen. Well, Messiaen is going to have to wait; Steely Dan won the day.  

What's that you say? You're not a Steely Dan fan?!  Probably because you haven't heard a proper Jazz man's take on them at the top of their game. 

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #ArturoO'Farrill #SteelyDan #JazzRadio #JazzInterview

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What can Pheeroan akLaff and I offer you to start a new year of fathomless possibilities?  "Eye-opening... coincidences that happened around Mr. Eric Dolphy or even eyebrow-raising revelations but certainly a celebration of his life and work."  Those are Pheeroan's words from our Deep Focus from May of 2015, with ear-opening fireworks from the archives.  

 

See you on the podcast!

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #EricDolphy #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzArchives

 

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What can Pheeroan akLaff and I offer you to start a new year of fathomless possibilities?  "Eye-opening... coincidences that happened around Mr. Eric Dolphy or even eyebrow-raising revelations but certainly a celebration of his life and work."  Those are Pheeroan's words from our Deep Focus from May of 2015.  

 

See you on the podcast!

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #EricDolphy #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzArchives

 

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What can Pheeroan akLaff and I offer you to start a new year of fathomless possibilities?  "Eye-opening... coincidences that happened around Mr. Eric Dolphy or even eyebrow-raising revelations but certainly a celebration of his life and work."  Those are Pheeroan's words from our Deep Focus from May of 2015.

 

See you on the podcast!

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PheeroanakLaff #EricDolphy #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzArchives

 

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Well, it's the last Deep Focus of the year and we're going out with a bang. 

Brian Charette is our guest and we're presenting one on lost master of the Hammond B3 organ Ethel Smith. Our money-back guarantee: you have never heard anything like this!

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #EthelSmith #Jazz #JazzInterview #JazzRadio

 

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Well, it's the last 2 Deep Focus podcasts of the year and we're going out with a bang. Brian Charette is our guest and we're presenting not one but two episodes that he was on: this one on Weather Report featuring Jaco Pastorius and next week on lost master of the Hammond B3 organ Ethel Smith. Our money-back guarantee: you have never heard anything like this!

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #WeatherReport #EthelSmith #Jaco #JacoPastorius #Jazz #JazzInterview #JazzRadio

 

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From the outside, Big Ideas seem to emerge in one complete piece. But If you find yourself inside them, either because you are part of their genesis or because your focused attention has brought you wisdom, you might see the narrative very differently. You might see it as an assemblage of parts, as an ongoing discussion among bright, divergent minds.

 

Guitarist Vernon Reid has been part of creating a few Big Ideas and he has peeped the inner workings of quite a few more. On Deep Focus this week, he expounds on the band Weather Report during their crucial mid-Seventies period. Host Mitch Goldman brings rare, live recordings from the WKCR archives, recordings that reveal a band playing trailblazing music for enormous crowds of adoring fans. As always, Vernon brings the urbane, the incisive and the hilarious.

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #VernonReid #WeatherReport #LivingColour #JoeZawinul #WayneShorter #AlphonsoJohnson #Fusion #JazzRockFusion #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast

 

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