Deep Focus

2025.11.24 Henry Threadgill on Ahmad Jamal - 1 of 3

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Henry Threadgill's music.  What a phantasmagoria of splendors and esoterica must animate his mind!  Don't you just want to go to that plac...

2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray - 3 of 3

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown.  You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there.  The risks ar...

2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray - 2 of 3

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown.  You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there.  The risks ar...

2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray - 1 of 3

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Breaking new ground requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown.  You don't know what terrors and wonders you might find there.  The risks ar...

2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young - 3 of 3

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game.  Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time for Larry ...

2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young - 2 of 3

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game.  Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time for Larry ...

2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young - 1 of 3

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to change the game, first you need to master the game.  Coming up in Newark in the fifties was the exact right place and time for Larry ...

2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer - 3 of 3

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid?  Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid a...

2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer - 2 of 3

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid?  Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid a...

2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer - 1 of 3

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the great lesson of a James Blood Ulmer for fellow guitarist/composer/bandleader Vernon Reid?  Find out this Monday (9/29) when Vernon Reid a...

2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum Road - 3 of 3

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be?  Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those...

2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum road - 2 of 3

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be?  Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those...

2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum road - 1 of 3

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who came up with the idea that the middle of the road is the right place to be?  Regular listeners to Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus know that it's those...

2025.08.18 Bob Dee on Jef Lee Johnson - 3 of 3

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How is it possible that you have never heard guitarist Jef Lee Johnson?  He was as incendiary and as nakedly original as any soloist you have ever he...

2025.08.18 Bob Dee on Jef Lee Johnson - 2 of 3

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How is it possible that you have never heard guitarist Jef Lee Johnson?  He was as incendiary and as nakedly original as any soloist you have ever he...

2025.08.18 Bob Dee on Jef Lee Johnson - 1 of 3

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How is it possible that you have never heard guitarist Jef Lee Johnson?  He was as incendiary and as nakedly original as any soloist you have ever he...

2015.08.03 Eric Person on Ornette Coleman - 3 of 3

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ornette Coleman, one of our brightest lights, died in June of 2015.  Here is a Deep Focus from August of that year, with Eric Person as my guest, rem...

2015.08.03 Eric Person on Ornette Coleman - 2 of 3

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ornette Coleman, one of our brightest lights, died in June of 2015.  Here is a Deep Focus from August of that year, with Eric Person as my guest, rem...

2015.08.03 Eric Person on Ornette Coleman - 1 of 3

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ornette Coleman, one of our brightest lights, died in June of 2015.  Here is a Deep Focus from August of that year with Eric Person as my guest, reme...

2025.07.21 Jean-Paul Bourelly on Arthur Blythe, S. Sharrock + P. Sanders, JB Ulmer - 3 of 3

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a rare treat: a former subject of Deep Focus becomes the guest.  In 2016, drummer Will Calhoun was our guest for a Deep Focus on one of his h...

2025.07.21 Jean-Paul Bourelly on Arthur Blythe, S. Sharrock + P. Sanders - 2 of 3

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a rare treat: a former subject of Deep Focus becomes the guest.  In 2016, drummer Will Calhoun was our guest for a Deep Focus on one of his h...

2025.07.21 Jean-Paul Bourelly on Arthur Blythe, S. Sharrock + P. Sanders - 1 of 3

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a rare treat: a former subject of Deep Focus becomes the guest.  In 2016, drummer Will Calhoun was our guest for a Deep Focus on one of his h...

2013.11.13 Roy Campbell on Woody Shaw - 3 of 3

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Mitch Goldman invited Roy Campbell to be his guest on Deep Focus, he knew that Roy was a master student of the entire history of the music, but h...

2013.11.13 Roy Campbell on Woody Shaw - 2 of 3

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Mitch Goldman invited Roy Campbell to be his guest on Deep Focus, he knew that Roy was a master student of the entire history of the music, but h...

2013.11.13 Roy Campbell on Woody Shaw - 1 of 3

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Mitch Goldman invited Roy Campbell to be his guest on Deep Focus, he knew that Roy was a master student of the entire history of the music, but h...

2025.05.26 Uri Caine on Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock - 3 of 3

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.  Both were in their thirties...

2025.05.26 Uri Caine on Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock - 2 of 3

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.  Both were in their thirties...

2025.05.26 Uri Caine on Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock - 1 of 3

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.  Both were in their thirti...

2025.05.12 Eric Person on Eddie Harris - 3 of 3

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all...

2025.05.12 Eric Person on Eddie Harris - 2 of 3

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all...

2025.05.12 Eric Person on Eddie Harris - 1 of 3

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Eddie (Harris) was an enigma. He was also a soulful intellectual. He was an innovator who had hit records. He was a success, but he didn't appear all...

2008.06.09 Graham Haynes on Ed Blackwell - 2 of 2

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here it is: the very first episode of Deep Focus ever, and it's a killer!  Graham Haynes is the guest and Ed Blackwell is the subject.  First-hand s...

2008.06.09 Graham Haynes on Ed Blackwell - 1 of 2

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here it is: the very first episode of Deep Focus ever, and it's a killer!  Graham Haynes is the guest and Ed Blackwell is the subject.  First-hand s...

2025.03.24 Vijay Iyer on Randy Weston - 3 of 3

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's impossible to distinguish between Randy Weston's musical innovations and his conception of the world he was born into.  To say that the roots of...

2025.03.24 Vijay Iyer on Randy Weston - 2 of 3

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's impossible to distinguish between Randy Weston's musical innovations and his conception of the world he was born into.  To say that the roots of...

2025.03.24 Vijay Iyer on Randy Weston - 1 of 3

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's impossible to distinguish between Randy Weston's musical innovations and his conception of the world he was born into.  To say that the roots of...

2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson - 1 of 3

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ronald Shannon Jackson's music was open source.  It was not possible to play it correctly without bringing your own voice to it: your background, yo...

2025.02.17 Steven Bernstein on The Don Cherry Tapes part 2 - 3 of 3

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent ...

2025.02.17 Steven Bernstein on The Don Cherry Tapes part 2 - 2 of 3

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent ...

2025.02.17 Steven Bernstein on The Don Cherry Tapes part 2 - 1 of 3

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent ...

2025.02.01 Eric Person on Arthur Blythe - 3 of 3

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On our previous Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman and his guest, saxophonist Eric Person explored the work of the David Murray Octet of the 1980s.  Here...

2025.02.01 Eric Person on Arthur Blythe - 2 of 3

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On our previous Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman and his guest, saxophonist Eric Person explored the work of the David Murray Octet of the 1980s.  Here...

2025.02.03 Eric Person on Arthur Blythe - 1 of 3

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On our previous Deep Focus, host Mitch Goldman and his guest, saxophonist Eric Person explored the work of the David Murray Octet of the 1980s.  Here...

2008.11.03 Eric Person on Herbie Hancock, Beaver Harris - 1 of 1

16 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here is another episode from the Deep Focus "Prodigal Children" series.    Mitch Goldman first went on the air at WKCR in 1985 and started Deep Focu...

2025.01.06 Eric Person on David Murray - 3 of 3

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1980s, when saxophonist Eric Person was coming up, one big question that was being addressed was how to combine the free-swinging improv ...

2025.01.06 Eric Person on David Murray - 2 of 3

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1980s, when saxophonist Eric Person was coming up, one big question that was being addressed was how to combine the free-swinging improv ...

2025.01.06 Eric Person on David Murray - 1 of 3

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1980s, when saxophonist Eric Person was coming up, one big question that was being addressed was how to combine the free-swinging improv ...

2024.12.23 Arturo O'Farrill on Carla Bley - 3 of 3

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arturo O'Farrill: "Without Carla (Bley)’s influence, I wouldn’t be where I am today; there would be no Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, no Belongó, no ...

2024.12.23 Arturo O'Farrill on Carla Bley - 2 of 3

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arturo O'Farrill: "Without Carla (Bley)’s influence, I wouldn’t be where I am today; there would be no Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, no Belongó, no ...

2024.12.23 Arturo O'Farrill on Carla Bley - 1 of 3

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arturo O'Farrill: "Without Carla (Bley)’s influence, I wouldn’t be where I am today; there would be no Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, no Belongó, no ...

2024.11.25 Leon Gruenbaum on Burnt Sugar - 3 of 3

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is renowned for "never playing anything the same way once." Drawing inspiration from Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Parliam...

2024.11.25 Leon Gruenbaum on Burnt Sugar- 2 of 3

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is renowned for "never playing anything the same way once." Drawing inspiration from Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Parliam...

2024.11.25 Leon Gruenbaum on Burnt Sugar - 1 of 3

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber is renowned for "never playing anything the same way once." Drawing inspiration from Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Parliam...

2017.04.17 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes with Thelonious Monk - 2 of 2

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The previous time Graham Haynes was the guest on Deep Focus, it was to celebrate his father Roy Haynes’s stunning contributions to Charlie Parker’...

2017.04.17 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes with Thelonious Monk - 1 of 2

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The previous time Graham Haynes was the guest on Deep Focus, it was to celebrate his father Roy Haynes’s stunning contributions to Charlie Parker’...

2010.12.13 Craig Harris on Sun Ra, Mingus - 2 of 2

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What a treat!  Listening to live recordings of Charles Mingus through the ears of the great trombonist and musical thinker Craig Harris.  When Craig...

2010.12.13 Craig Harris on Sun Ra, Mingus - 1 of 2

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What a treat!  Listening to live recordings of Charles Mingus through the ears of the great trombonist and musical thinker Craig Harris.  When Craig...

2024.10.14 Kenny Wessel on Badal Roy - 3 of 3

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here's another Ph.D. topic for you: Miles Davis vs. Ornette Coleman. Both blazingly original innovators lived most of their lives in Manhattan and the...

2024.10.14 Kenny Wessel on Badal Roy - 2 of 3

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here's another Ph.D. topic for you: Miles Davis vs. Ornette Coleman. Both blazingly original innovators lived most of their lives in Manhattan and the...

2024.10.14 Kenny Wessel on Badal Roy - 1 of 3

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here's another Ph.D. topic for you: Miles Davis vs. Ornette Coleman. Both blazingly original innovators lived most of their lives in Manhattan and the...

2024.09.16 Lewis Flip Barnes on William Parker - 3 of 3

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's present an award: who would you say has been the most prolific artist on NYC's forward-looking music scene and who has contributed the most to...

2024.09.16 Lewis Flip Barnes on William Parker - 2 of 3

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's present an award: who would you say has been the most prolific artist on NYC's forward-looking music scene and who has contributed the most to...

2024.09.16 Lewis Flip Barnes on William Parker - 1 of 3

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's present an award: who would you say has been the most prolific artist on NYC's forward-looking music scene and who has contributed the most to...

2024.08.19 Melvin Gibbs on Sun Ra - 3 of 3

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight (8/19) bassist/composer Melvin Gibbs joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra with unheard rarities from the WKCR archives.  Here...

2024.08.19 Melvin Gibbs on Sun Ra - 2 of 3

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight (8/19) bassist/composer Melvin Gibbs joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra with unheard rarities from the WKCR archives.  Here...

2024.08.19 Melvin Gibbs on Sun Ra - 1 of 3

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight (8/19) bassist/composer Melvin Gibbs joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra with unheard rarities from the WKCR archives.  Here...

2018.04.02 Micah Gaugh on Ronald Shannon Jackson - 3 of 3

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I love it when I go to a gig and I see that Micah Gaugh is going to be playing. It means it is certain that something unexpected is going to happen. A...

2018.04.02 Micah Gaugh on Ronald Shannon Jackson - 2 of 3

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I love it when I go to a gig and I see that Micah Gaugh is going to be playing. It means it is certain that something unexpected is going to happen. A...

2018.04.02 Micah Gaugh on Ronald Shannon Jackson - 1 of 3

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I love it when I go to a gig and I see that Micah Gaugh is going to be playing. It means it is certain that something unexpected is going to happen. A...

2024.07.08 Matt Garrison on Miles Davis 1981 - 3 of 3

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People love to talk about Miles Davis reinventing himself and reinventing the music.  They talk about the First Great Quintet in the fifties, the Se...

2024.07.08 Matt Garrison on Miles Davis 1981 - 2 of 3

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People love to talk about Miles Davis reinventing himself and reinventing the music.  They talk about the First Great Quintet in the fifties, the Se...

2024.07.08 Matt Garrison on 1981 Miles Davis - 1 of 3

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People love to talk about Miles Davis reinventing himself and reinventing the music.  They talk about the First Great Quintet in the fifties, the Se...

2024.06.24 Eric Person on Art Blakey - 3 of 3

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to any song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.  There will be no question in your mind about who is driving the bus or who is riding on t...

2024.06.24 Eric Person on Art Blakey - 2 of 3

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to any song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.  There will be no question in your mind about who is driving the bus or who is riding on t...

2024.06.24 Eric Person on Art Blakey - 1 of 3

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to any song by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.  There will be no question in your mind about who is driving the bus or who is riding on t...

2024.06.10 Vernon Reid on Gil Scott-Heron - 3 of 3

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We don't hear enough about Gil Scott-Heron these days.  And when we do, we often get the same few crumbs: his invention of a sort of proto-hiphop, so...

2024.06.10 Vernon Reid on Gil Scott-Heron - 2 of 3

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We don't hear enough about Gil Scott-Heron these days.  And when we do, we often get the same few crumbs: his invention of a sort of proto-hiphop, so...

2024.06.10 Vernon Reid on Gil Scott-Heron - 1 of 3

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We don't hear enough about Gil Scott-Heron these days.  And when we do, we often get the same few crumbs: his invention of a sort of proto-hiphop, so...

2024.05.13 Gary Lucas on Rahsaan Roland Kirk - 3 of 3

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Who has the hippest chops in the world?"    If you're going to ask that question on a record, you had better have the nuts to back it up.  I mean,...

2024.05.13 Gary Lucas on Rahsaan Roland Kirk - 2 of 3

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Who has the hippest chops in the world?"    If you're going to ask that question on a record, you had better have the nuts to back it up.  I mean,...

2024.05.13 Gary Lucas on Rahsaan Roland Kirk - 1 of 3

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Who has the hippest chops in the world?"    If you're going to ask that question on a record, you had better have the nuts to back it up.  I mean,...

2010.09.20 Melvin Gibbs on Soundscape_ Arthur Rhames and Lee Rozie 2 of 2

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Almost every episode of Deep Focus is now available here as a podcast.  I say "almost" because there are a handful that, for technical reasons, were ...

2010.09.20 Melvin Gibbs on Soundscape_ Arthur Rhames and Lee Rozie - 1 of 2

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Almost every episode of Deep Focus is now available here as a podcast.  I say "almost" because there are a handful that, for technical reasons, were ...

2010.09.13 Melvin Gibbs on Sonny Sharrock at Soundscape

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Almost every episode of Deep Focus is now available here as a podcast.  I say "almost" because there are a handful that, for technical reasons, were ...

2024.03.18 Graham Haynes on Woody Shaw - 3 of 3

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What confers greatness?  There are many pathways, the most obvious being distinctive playing.  Are there others?  What about brilliant composing? ...

2024.03.18 Graham Haynes on Woody Shaw - 2 of 3

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What confers greatness?  There are many pathways, the most obvious being distinctive playing.  Are there others?  What about brilliant composing? ...

2024.03.18 Graham Haynes on Woody Shaw - 1 of 3

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What confers greatness?  There are many pathways, the most obvious being distinctive playing.  Are there others?  What about brilliant composing? ...

2020.03.02 Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard - 3 of 3

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and wom...

2020.03.02 Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard - 2 of 3

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and wom...

2020.03.02 Graham Haynes on Jaki Byard - 1 of 3

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We tend to think of the subjects of Deep Focus as conjurers, as master architects, as grand statesmen, as sonic sculptors, as Renaissance men and wome...

2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 3 of 3

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Not all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does.  So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday...

2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 2 of 3

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Not all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does.  So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday...

2024.02.05 William Hooker on Sonny Sharrock - 1 of 3

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Not all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does.  So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday...

2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 3 of 3

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mit...

2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 2 of 3

04 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mit...

2024.01.22 The Don Cherry Tapes with guest Steven Bernstein - 1 of 3

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight's Deep Focus (Jan. 22) is on Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mit...

2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Hampton Hawes, Mulatu Astatke - 3 of 3

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This music is at its best when the artist is telling you exactly who they are.  Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal...

2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Andrew Hill, Hampton Hawes - 2 of 3

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This music is at its best when the artist is telling you exactly who they are.  Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal...

2024.01.08 Peter Apfelbaum on Andrew Hill, Hampton Hawes, Mulatu - 1 of 3

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This music is at its best when the artist is showing you exactly who they are.  Pianist Andrew Hill always seemed able to take us inside his internal...

2023.11.27 Tru Born Anthony Michael Peterson on finding the thread - 3 of 3

31 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Rock." "Jazz." "Classical." "Blues."  We rarely question the value of categorizing music.  These words are handy buckets to drop songs into: "I lik...