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Deep Focus

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Host Mitch Goldman and his musician-guest explore rare archival recordings of one of the guest’s favorite artists.

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01:08:56

2013.11.13 Roy Campbell on Woody Shaw - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/07/06

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 he had no idea that Roy knew Woody Shaw personally. Stunning tales of Ornette Coleman, Lee Morgan, and others emerge in this remarkable program, recorded not 2 months before Roy Campbell's tragic early passing. Roy, you are missed!

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57:36

2025.05.26 Uri Caine on Chick Corea and Herbie...

Deep Focus ·

2025/06/29

In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Both were in their thirties, both had played emerging electric music with Miles Davis after having established their Jazz bona fides, both led successful fusion bands (Chick with Return To Forever, Herbie with his Head Hunters band), and each had a distinctive voice on the keyboard. How stunning must it have been in 1978 when they announced a joint recording and touring

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01:04:17

2025.05.26 Uri Caine on Chick Corea and Herbie...

Deep Focus ·

2025/06/15

In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Both were in their thirties, both had played emerging electric music with Miles Davis after having established their Jazz bona fides, both led successful fusion bands (Chick with Return To Forever, Herbie with his Head Hunters band), and each had a distinctive voice on the keyboard. How stunning must it have been in 1978 when they announced a joint recording and touring

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01:04:29

2025.05.26 Uri Caine on Chick Corea and Herbie...

Deep Focus ·

2025/06/08

In the seventies, when Uri Caine was discovering the piano, two dominant influences were Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Both were in their thirties, both had played emerging electric music with Miles Davis after having established their Jazz bona fides, both led successful fusion bands (Chick with Return To Forever, Herbie with his Head Hunters band), and each had a distinctive voice on the keyboard. How stunning must it have been in 1978 when they announced a joint recording and touring

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01:09:14

2025.05.12 Eric Person on Eddie Harris - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/06/01

"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 that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests." Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric PersonWe couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris

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01:04:33

2025.05.12 Eric Person on Eddie Harris - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/05/25

"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 that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests." Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric PersonWe couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris

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01:02:45

2025.05.12 Eric Person on Eddie Harris - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/05/18

"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 that popular. I think he must have had 3 audiences in one. Each person seeing something different in his music, and that's problematic to navigate in. But he was who he was. He was a creative force with many talents and interests." Saxophonist/bandleader/composer Eric PersonWe couldn't put it better ourselves, so how about if we give Eddie Harris

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58:22

2008.06.09 Graham Haynes on Ed Blackwell - 2 of 2

Deep Focus ·

2025/05/11

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 stories about Blackwell? Yes! Don Cherry? Yes! Lester Bowie? Yes! Carlos Ward? Yes! Roy Haynes? Yes! Fantastic music that we've never heard? What do you think? Tune in to find out. Photo credit: fair use. Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.

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01:26:16

2008.06.09 Graham Haynes on Ed Blackwell - 1 of 2

Deep Focus ·

2025/05/04

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 stories about Blackwell? Yes! Don Cherry? Yes! Lester Bowie? Yes! Carlos Ward? Yes! Roy Haynes? Yes! Fantastic music that we've never heard? What do you think? Tune in to find out. Photo credit: fair use. Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.

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01:06:55

2025.03.24 Vijay Iyer on Randy Weston - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/04/27

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 jazz are in West Africa is hardly a groundbreaking statement nowadays, but it was a mostly unfamiliar notion when he started to say it in the 1950's. It's easy to hear it now, especially when you listen to Weston's 6+ decade discography. It's in his percussive compositions and it's in the story of his life, making music with players from throughout

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01:04:58

2025.03.24 Vijay Iyer on Randy Weston - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/04/20

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 jazz are in West Africa is hardly a groundbreaking statement nowadays, but it was a mostly unfamiliar notion when he started to say it in the 1950's. It's easy to hear it now, especially when you listen to Weston's 6+ decade discography. It's in his percussive compositions and it's in the story of his life, making music with players from throughout

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01:02:21

2025.03.24 Vijay Iyer on Randy Weston - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/04/13

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 jazz are in West Africa is hardly a groundbreaking statement nowadays, but it was a mostly unfamiliar notion when he started to say it in the 1950's. It's easy to hear it now, especially when you listen to Weston's 6+ decade discography. It's in his percussive compositions and it's in the story of his life, making music with players from throughout

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01:28:12

2013.11.18 Jack DeSalvo on Ronald Shannon Jackson - 1...

Deep Focus ·

2025/04/06

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, your proclivities, your vocabulary. And if you didn't have it to bring, the music wasn't going to make it off the stage. Jack DeSalvo brought a musical lexicon to the Decoding Society that was unmatched. When Shannon expressed a mood-- on drums or flute or schalmei or in a composition-- Jack was able to flesh it out in a completely distinct way. Entire

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01:12:14

2025.02.17 Steven Bernstein on The Don Cherry Tapes...

Deep Focus ·

2025/03/30

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 guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage. In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, trumpeter, cultural

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54:08

2025.02.17 Steven Bernstein on The Don Cherry Tapes...

Deep Focus ·

2025/03/23

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 guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage. In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, trumpeter, cultural

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01:10:11

2025.02.17 Steven Bernstein on The Don Cherry Tapes...

Deep Focus ·

2025/03/16

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 guest on Mitch Goldman's show. Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party. And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording. The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage. In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter,

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57:32

2025.02.01 Eric Person on Arthur Blythe - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/03/09

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 was an ensemble that punched far above its weight, with swinging horn parts like a Thirties big band as well eyeball-to-eyeball improvisation like a small ensemble. They had the storytelling of a traditional group with the expansive harmonies and extended techniques that were being freshly discovered at the time. It was a laboratory for the music's

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54:49

2025.02.01 Eric Person on Arthur Blythe - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/03/02

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 was an ensemble that punched far above its weight, with swinging horn parts like a Thirties big band as well eyeball-to-eyeball improvisation like a small ensemble. They had the storytelling of a traditional group with the expansive harmonies and extended techniques that were being freshly discovered at the time. It was a laboratory for the music's

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01:08:36

2025.02.03 Eric Person on Arthur Blythe - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/02/23

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 was an ensemble that punched far above its weight, with swinging horn parts like a Thirties big band, as well eyeball-to-eyeball improvisation like a small ensemble. They had the storytelling of a traditional group with the expansive harmonies and extended techniques that were being freshly discovered at the time. It was a laboratory for the music's

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01:22:57

2008.11.03 Eric Person on Herbie Hancock, Beaver...

Deep Focus ·

2025/02/16

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 Focus in 2008. Since his primary focus during the broadcast is hosting and engineering the show, making these recordings has often had to take a back seat. Add in the fact that WKCR is, in Phil Schaap's words, "The home of technical difficulties," and you might understand that the historical record of the show is somewhat incomplete. In this podcast, we

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