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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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54:48

2025.11.24 Henry Threadgill on Ahmad Jamal - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/01/04

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 place? Maybe for a night out on the town? Or a picnic in The Secret Garden? Aren't you curious about where his inspiration comes from? You could read his autobiography, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music (in fact, we recommend you do), but why don't you spend some time with Henry, listening to music that he loves? This Monday (11/24),

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71:16

2025.11.24 Henry Threadgill on Ahmad Jamal - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/12/28

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 place? Maybe for a night out on the town? Or a picnic in The Secret Garden? Aren't you curious about where his inspiration comes from? You could read his autobiography, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music (in fact, we recommend you do), but why don't you spend some time with Henry, listening to music that he loves? This Monday (11/24),

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62:02

2025.11.24 Henry Threadgill on Ahmad Jamal - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/12/21

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 place? Maybe for a night out on the town? Or a picnic in The Secret Garden? Aren't you curious about where his inspiration comes from? You could read his autobiography, Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music (in fact, we recommend you do), but why don't you spend some time with Henry, listening to music that he loves? This Monday (11/24),

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62:29

2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/12/14

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 are concealed until it's too late to turn back. That's one thing when it's your pursuit. What about when it's someone else's vision, and you need to lead them through it? What do you do? Just dive into the Vast Empty? Yes, you do if you're trombonist Craig Harris! He has been doing exactly that with reedman David Murray for nearly 50 years. The two

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61:35

2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/12/07

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 are concealed until it's too late to turn back. That's one thing when it's your pursuit. What about when it's someone else's vision, and you need to lead them through it? What do you do? Just dive into the Vast Empty? Yes, you do if you're trombonist Craig Harris! He has been doing exactly that with reedman David Murray for nearly 50 years. The two

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67:14

2025.11.10 Craig Harris on David Murray - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/11/30

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 are concealed until it's too late to turn back. That's one thing when it's your pursuit. What about when it's someone else's vision, and you need to lead them through it? What do you do? Just dive into the Vast Empty? Yes, you do if you're trombonist Craig Harris! He has been doing exactly that with reedman David Murray for nearly 50 years. The two

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60:30

2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/11/23

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 Young to learn the idiom of the Hammond B-3 organ, and he learned his lessons well. His early records embody the soul-jazz organ trio sound made popular by Jimmy Smith. But as the sound of the sixties emerged, Larry Young (also known by his Muslim name, Khalid Yasin Abdul Aziz) was reaching for something more. His journey, including hours of

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65:34

2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/11/16

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 Young to learn the idiom of the Hammond B-3 organ, and he learned his lessons well. His early records embody the soul-jazz organ trio sound made popular by Jimmy Smith. But as the sound of the sixties emerged, Larry Young (also known by his Muslim name, Khalid Yasin Abdul Aziz) was reaching for something more. His journey, including hours of

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62:48

2025.10.27 Brian Charette on Larry Young - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/11/10

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 Young to learn the idiom of the Hammond B-3 organ, and he learned his lessons well. His early records embody the soul-jazz organ trio sound made popular by Jimmy Smith. But as the sound of the sixties emerged, Larry Young (also known by his Muslim name, Khalid Yasin Abdul Aziz) was reaching for something more. His journey, including hours of

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79:55

2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/11/02

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 and host Mitch Goldman plunge into the WKCR archives in search of rare, live recordings. Some of them might even feature Vernon's early spirit guide and Blood's fellow Prime Timer, Ronald Shannon Jackson. Now, for those of you who can't stand the suspense of waiting for Monday, here's one possible answer to that question: there is no "A" James Blood

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64:53

2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/10/26

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 and host Mitch Goldman plunge into the WKCR archives in search of rare, live recordings. Some of them might even feature Vernon's early spirit guide and Blood's fellow Prime Timer, Ronald Shannon Jackson. Now, for those of you who can't stand the suspense of waiting for Monday, here's one possible answer to that question: there is no "A" James Blood

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67:37

2025.09.29 Vernon Reid on James Blood Ulmer - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/10/19

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 and host Mitch Goldman plunge into the WKCR archives in search of rare, live recordings. Some of them might even feature Vernon's early spirit guide and Blood's fellow Prime Timer, Ronald Shannon Jackson. Now, for those of you who can't stand the suspense of waiting for Monday, here's one possible answer to that question: there is no "A" James Blood

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64:11

2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum Road - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/10/12

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 shadowy corners, those Edge Cities, where new things start to happen. And who embodied this idea more than drummer Tony Williams' late sixties supergroup, Lifetime? Lifetime inspired another supergroup in 2008 when guitarist Vernon Reid and bassist Jack Bruce (himself a member of Lifetime) formed Spectrum Road with drummer Cindy Blackman and

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63:29

2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum road - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/10/05

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 shadowy corners, those Edge Cities, where new things start to happen. And who embodied this idea more than drummer Tony Williams' late sixties supergroup, Lifetime? Lifetime inspired another supergroup in 2008 when guitarist Vernon Reid and bassist Jack Bruce (himself a member of Lifetime) formed Spectrum Road with drummer Cindy Blackman and

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65:31

2025.09.01 Ben Tyree on Spectrum road - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/09/28

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 shadowy corners, those Edge Cities, where new things start to happen. And who embodied this idea more than drummer Tony Williams' late sixties supergroup, Lifetime? Lifetime inspired another supergroup in 2008 when guitarist Vernon Reid and bassist Jack Bruce (himself a member of Lifetime) formed Spectrum Road with drummer Cindy Blackman and

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62:12

2025.08.18 Bob Dee on Jef Lee Johnson - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/09/21

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 heard (absolutely any!). But his greater distinction might have been his songwriting. You don’t learn to write songs that are that revealing, that insightful, that cleverly put-together, and that hilariously funny, just by working at it. First, you have to have the wisdom, and Jef had it pouring out of him. It seemed as if he couldn’t make it stop if

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64:39

2025.08.18 Bob Dee on Jef Lee Johnson - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/09/14

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 heard (absolutely any!). But his greater distinction might have been his songwriting. You don’t learn to write songs that are that revealing, that insightful, that cleverly put-together, and that hilariously funny, just by working at it. First, you have to have the wisdom, and Jef had it pouring out of him. It seemed as if he couldn’t make it stop if

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59:25

2025.08.18 Bob Dee on Jef Lee Johnson - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/09/07

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 heard (absolutely any!). But his greater distinction might have been his songwriting. You don’t learn to write songs that are that revealing, that insightful, that cleverly put-together, and that hilariously funny, just by working at it. First, you have to have the wisdom, and Jef had it pouring out of him. It seemed as if he couldn’t make it stop if

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01:05:51

2015.08.03 Eric Person on Ornette Coleman - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/08/31

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, remembering Ornette. This show features a beautiful live recording from 1978. Officially, his band is listed as the Ornette Coleman Sextet, but his fans know them as Prime Time.

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01:16:02

2015.08.03 Eric Person on Ornette Coleman - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2025/08/24

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, remembering Ornette. This show features a beautiful live recording from 1978. Officially, his band is listed as the Ornette Coleman Sextet, but his fans know them as Prime Time.

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