Deep Focus

There’s a school of thought among some jazz musicians that you should learn all you can– study, practice, master every scale and every mode– and then on the bandstand you leave all that behind and simply play, as a child plays.  No one embodies this ideal more than Keith Jarrett; he is renowned for sitting down at the piano with absolutely no preconceived idea of what he is going to play.  What emerges is a spontaneous composition. 

When you listen to Jack DeSalvo, it’s immediately apparent that he has an enormous musical vocabulary.  Renaissance classical, garage rock, straight ahead jazz, downtown skronk and traditional mandolin melodies are all part of his musical DNA.  But when you hear DeSalvo improvise on classical guitar, you’re hearing music of that precise moment.  He has many influences (and there are as many poets, philosophers and thinkers as there are musicians) but his original inspiration for pure invention is Keith Jarrett.  

 

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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 2018.

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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

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

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.

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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. 

 

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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

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

 

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!

 

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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!

 

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