Deep Focus

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!

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“Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.” Thelonious Monk said those words; Henry Threadgill embodies those words. This week's Deep Focus: Henry Threadgill on Thelonious Monk with host Mitch Goldman in a rebroadcast from 2017.

 

 

The number of people who fully appreciate and can lend insight into Thelonious Monk’s musical achievements? Few. The number who know what it’s like to hear music no one has heard before? Far fewer. Henry Threadgill is the most distinctive and inventive composer/bandleader in music today and has been for many years. Besides, Henry’s a crack-up! Oh, this one…!

 

Photo: Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 by the brilliant William P. Gottlieb.

 

Credit: William P. Gottlieb / Public domain

 

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“Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.” Thelonious Monk said those words; Henry Threadgill embodies those words. This week's Deep Focus: Henry Threadgill on Thelonious Monk with host Mitch Goldman in a rebroadcast from 2017.

 

 

The number of people who fully appreciate and can lend insight into Thelonious Monk’s musical achievements? Few. The number who know what it’s like to hear music no one has heard before? Far fewer. Henry Threadgill is the most distinctive and inventive composer/bandleader in music today and has been for many years. Besides, Henry’s a crack-up! Oh, this one…!

 

Photo: Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 by the brilliant William P. Gottlieb.

 

Credit: William P. Gottlieb / Public domain

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #HenryThreadgill #TheloniousMonk #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz

“Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.” Thelonious Monk said those words; Henry Threadgill embodies those words. This week's Deep Focus: Henry Threadgill on Thelonious Monk with host Mitch Goldman in a rebroadcast from 2017.

 

The number of people who fully appreciate and can lend insight into Thelonious Monk’s musical achievements? Few. The number who know what it’s like to hear music no one has heard before?  Far fewer. Henry Threadgill is the most distinctive and inventive composer/bandleader in music today and has been for many years. Besides, Henry’s a crack-up! Oh, this one…!

 

Photo: Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 by the brilliant William P. Gottlieb.

 

Credit: William P. Gottlieb / Public domain

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #HenryThreadgill #TheloniousMonk #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz

Billy Bang wasn’t called “Billy Bang” for nothing. He earned that name as a demolitions expert in Viet Nam but it was equally apt when he was blowing up the violin in searing explosions filled with joy and heartache. Few know this as well as drummer William Hooker who toured and recorded with Billy.

William Hooker has never released the recordings but he shares them with us in this Deep Focus from 2017 on Billy Bang.

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Photo credit: One dead president / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Billy Bang wasn’t called “Billy Bang” for nothing. He earned that name as a demolitions expert in Viet Nam but it was equally apt when he was blowing up the violin in searing explosions filled with joy and heartache. Few know this as well as drummer William Hooker who toured and recorded with Billy.

William Hooker has never released the recordings but he shares them with us in this Deep Focus from 2017 on Billy Bang.

#WKCR #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #BillyBang #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz #CreativeMusic

Photo credit: One dead president / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Ornette Coleman was renowned for dispensing with the rules of Jazz improvisation.  So can Ornette's concept be taught? Even institutionalized? That was the question before Ornette and fellow musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso in the early Seventies.  The answer? Oh yes, it can. You bet it can!  Institutionalized with all of its infinite horizons still in view.  

 

The Creative Music Studio, in Woodstock, NY, became a learning center, a nexus point for emerging improvisers, a concert producer... As founding advisory board member Buckminster Fuller might have said, a verb rather than a noun.  For a dozen years, CMS pointed the way to undiscovered lands and provided the means and directions for getting there.  Its impact decades later is undiminished and certainly not forgotten by the many who passed through it.  You will find quite a number of these folks named in any evaluation of today's most imaginative improvisers. 

 

Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso joined host Mitch Goldman in a Deep Focus on the history of CMS in 2012, complete with ear-opening, never-before-heard live recordings.  

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #Jazz #CreativeMusic

 

Photo credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 1982 

Ornette Coleman was renowned for dispensing with the rules of Jazz improvisation.  So can Ornette's concept be taught? Even institutionalized? That was the question before Ornette and fellow musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso in the early Seventies.  The answer? Oh yes, it can. You bet it can!  Institutionalized with all of its infinite horizons still in view.  

 

The Creative Music Studio, in Woodstock, NY, became a learning center, a nexus point for emerging improvisers, a concert producer... As founding advisory board member Buckminster Fuller might have said, a verb rather than a noun.  For a dozen years, CMS pointed the way to undiscovered lands and provided the means and directions for getting there.  Its impact decades later is undiminished and certainly not forgotten by the many who passed through it.  You will find quite a number of these folks named in any evaluation of today's most imaginative improvisers. 

 

Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso joined host Mitch Goldman in a Deep Focus on the history of CMS in 2012, complete with ear-opening, never-before-heard live recordings.  

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview

 

Photo credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 1982 

Ornette Coleman was renowned for dispensing with the rules of Jazz improvisation.  So can Ornette's concept be taught? Even institutionalized? That was the question before Ornette and fellow musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso in the early Seventies.  The answer? Oh yes, it can. You bet it can!  Institutionalized with all of its infinite horizons still in view.  

 

The Creative Music Studio, in Woodstock, NY, became a learning center, a nexus point for emerging improvisers, a concert producer... As founding advisory board member Buckminster Fuller might have said, a verb rather than a noun.  For a dozen years, CMS pointed the way to undiscovered lands and provided the means and directions for getting there.  Its impact decades later is undiminished and certainly not forgotten by the many who passed through it.  You will find quite a number of these folks named in any evaluation of today's most imaginative improvisers. 

 

Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso joined host Mitch Goldman in a Deep Focus on the history of CMS in 2012, complete with ear-opening, never-before-heard live recordings.  Hear a rebroadcast of this recording Monday night (9/28) from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.  

 

#WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman

 

Photo credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 1982 

Does the name “Mwandishi” Mean anything to you? How about “Headhunters”? Herbie Hancock is one of our most respected composer/improvisers today but in the Seventies there was a whole other thing going on. Herbie, in his music and in the cool images of him back then, always seemed to be 5 minutes in the future. And who did he find in that immediate future? Visual artist/musician Richard Admiral was right there waiting for him. If you saw Admiral's tags "BAMA" or "AMRL" in the train yards of The Bronx, you were closer to Herbie's music than you knew. Are we talking about "back in the day'? No, this was quite a ways before that.

 

Richard Admiral joins me in a rebroadcast from 2017 on the music of Herbie Hancock in the Seventies.

 

Podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

 

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