Deep Focus

2018.05.14 Brian Charette on George Coleman 2 of 3

Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get at least 3 opinions. Unless, that is, you ask them about George Coleman. If they say anything about this assassin of the tenor saxophone that is less than panegyrical then they just don’t know what they’re talking about (and you can tell them we said so!). One person who we know won’t give us any argument about this is organist Brian Charette. Big George is on the album that Brian released at the time of this broadcast from 2019.

#WKCR #DeepFocus #BrianCharette #GeorgeColeman #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz

2018.05.14 Brian Charette on George Coleman 1 of 3

Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get at least 3 opinions. Unless, that is, you ask them about George Coleman. If they say anything about this assassin of the tenor saxophone that is less than panegyrical then they just don’t know what they’re talking about (and you can tell them I said so!). One person who I know won’t give us any argument about this is organist Brian Charette. Big George is on the album that Brian released at the time of this broadcast from 2018.

#WKCR #DeepFocus #BrianCharette #GeorgeColeman #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz

2018.05.14 Brian Charette on George Coleman 2 of 3

Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get at least 3 opinions. Unless, that is, you ask them about George Coleman. If they say anything about this assassin of the tenor saxophone that is less than panegyrical then they just don’t know what they’re talking about (and you can tell them we said so!). One person who we know won’t give us any argument about this is organist Brian Charette. Big George is on the album that Brian released at the time of this broadcast from 2019.

#WKCR #DeepFocus #BrianCharette #GeorgeColeman #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz

2019.04.01 Adam Rudolph on Yusef Lateef podcast 3 of 3

Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and Cannonball Adderley.  He didn’t look like anyone else and he sure didn’t sound like anyone else: he’s playing an oboe? What’s an arghul?  What is this guy all about?  He answered these questions with several dozen distinguished albums on most of the leading Jazz labels between the late Fifties and the late Seventies.  

Then he seemed to take a tight turn. He moved to Nigeria for several years and then returned to the US in the mid-Eighties, leading a second career as an educator.  But he never stopped making music, releasing nearly as many records— now on his own YAL label—as he did in his early years.  This second career stretched on longer than the first, ending with his death in 2013, but remains largely unknown to the wider public.  

Throughout this second career, among his closest collaborators was percussionist and bandleader Adam Rudolph.  Adam will share personal stories and first-hand insights from his years with this master musician.  Join host Mitch Goldman for a rebroadcast of this Deep Focus from 2019. 

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #AdamRudolph #YusefLateef #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz

2019.04.01 Adam Rudolph on Yusef Lateef podcast 2 of 3

Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and Cannonball Adderley.  He didn’t look like anyone else and he sure didn’t sound like anyone else: he’s playing an oboe? What’s an arghul?  What is this guy all about?  He answered these questions with several dozen distinguished albums on most of the leading Jazz labels between the late Fifties and the late Seventies.  

Then he seemed to take a tight turn. He moved to Nigeria for several years and then returned to the US in the mid-Eighties, leading a second career as an educator.  But he never stopped making music, releasing nearly as many records— now on his own YAL label—as he did in his early years.  This second career stretched on longer than the first, ending with his death in 2013, but remains largely unknown to the wider public.  

Throughout this second career, among his closest collaborators was percussionist and bandleader Adam Rudolph.  Adam will share personal stories and first-hand insights from his years with this master musician.  Join host Mitch Goldman for a rebroadcast of this Deep Focus from 2019. 

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #AdamRudolph #YusefLateef #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz

2019.04.01 Adam Rudolph on Yusef Lateef podcast 1 of 3

Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and Cannonball Adderley.  He didn’t look like anyone else and he sure didn’t sound like anyone else: he’s playing an oboe? What’s an arghul?  What is this guy all about?  He answered these questions with several dozen distinguished albums on most of the leading Jazz labels between the late Fifties and the late Seventies.  

Then he seemed to take a tight turn. He moved to Nigeria for several years and then returned to the US in the mid-Eighties, leading a second career as an educator.  But he never stopped making music, releasing nearly as many records— now on his own YAL label—as he did in his early years.  This second career stretched on longer than the first, ending with his death in 2013, but remains largely unknown to the wider public.  

Throughout this second career, among his closest collaborators was percussionist and bandleader Adam Rudolph.  Adam will share personal stories and first-hand insights from his years with this master musician.  Join host Mitch Goldman for a rebroadcast of this Deep Focus from 2019. 

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #AdamRudolph #YusefLateef #MitchGoldman #JazzAlternatives #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz

 

2018.04.30 Ras Moshe on Dewey Redman podcast 2 of 2

We have gotten all excited about “Big Data” in recent years, this idea that knowledge can be gleaned from a large pool of info if you have the proper tools to study it. I suspect that corporations and the media borrowed the concept from the practice of hardcore music lovers like reedman Ras Moshe. Find out what I mean: Big data indeed!

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #RasMoshe #DeweyRedman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview

2018.04.30 Ras Moshe on Dewey Redman podcast 1 of 2

We have gotten all excited about “Big Data” in recent years, this idea that knowledge can be gleaned from a large pool of info if you have the proper tools to study it. I suspect that corporations and the media borrowed the concept from the practice of hardcore music lovers like reedman Ras Moshe. Find out what I mean: Big data indeed!

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #RasMoshe #DeweyRedman #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview

2011.01.17 Eric Person on Rahsaan Roland Kirk podcast 3 of 3

Saxophonist Eric Person and I have been listening to music together for over 3 decades. We both love a musician who is The Total Package.

 

- You need to know the entire history of the music inside and out;

- You have to write, play and lead a band at the highest level;

- You gotta have chops on your instrument that make the other cats' heads spin;

- You need to be able to entertain a crowd, whether they came to hear some smokin' jazz or just canoodle in the back row.

 

If you can do one or two of those things really well, you're a total monster. But how many can do ALL of them as well as anyone? We can debate it all night but when day breaks, it's still going to be a pretty short list. One name that's going to be near the top: Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

 

Eric Person joined me at WKCR for a Deep Focus on Rahsaan in January of 2011. Once again, the WKCR archives did not fail. Treasures abound! 

 

Subscribe to the podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #EricPerson #RahsaaanRolandKirk #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview

2011.01.17 Eric Person on Rahsaan Roland Kirk podcast 2 of 3

Saxophonist Eric Person and I have been listening to music together for over 3 decades. We both love a musician who is The Total Package.

 

- You need to know the entire history of the music inside and out;

- You have to write, play and lead a band at the highest level;

- You gotta have chops on your instrument that make the other cats' heads spin;

- You need to be able to entertain a crowd, whether they came to hear some smokin' jazz or just canoodle in the back row.

 

If you can do one or two of those things really well, you're a total monster. But how many can do ALL of them as well as anyone? We can debate it all night but when day breaks, it's still going to be a pretty short list. One name that's going to be near the top: Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

 

Eric Person joined me at WKCR for a Deep Focus on Rahsaan in January of 2011. Once again, the WKCR archives did not fail. Treasures abound! 

 

Subscribe to the podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #DeepFocus #EricPerson #RahsaaanRolandKirk #Jazz #JazzRadio #JazzInterview