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Small Media Large

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

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66:34

2026.02.16 Steve Slagle on Charlie Haden - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/03/22

The music, the people playing it, and the audience are all in a state of total oneness. It's a spontaneous improvisation as delicate as an eggshell. You're almost afraid to breathe lest this moment dissolve, and we are all dropped back to the cold earth. Then you open your eyes to see that the bassist is Charlie Haden, and you know that this moment will not end until its time has come, because Charlie Haden practically discovered this sense of the sublime in music for us. He seems to create it at

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63:16

2026.02.16 Steve Slagle on Charlie Haden - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/03/15

The music, the people playing it, and the audience are all in a state of total oneness. It's a spontaneous improvisation as delicate as an eggshell. You're almost afraid to breathe lest this moment dissolve, and we are all dropped back to the cold earth. Then you open your eyes to see that the bassist is Charlie Haden, and you know that this moment will not end until its time has come, because Charlie Haden practically discovered this sense of the sublime in music for us. He seems to create it at

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61:39

2026.01.19 Mazz Swift on Butch Morris - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/03/08

Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an ensemble, and to hear it performed in real time? How would you go about that? You would have to have an entire group imagining together. Lawrence "Butch" Morris did it by creating a compositional language that allowed him to convey musical ideas using physical gestures. His system, which he called "Conduction," was immediately

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67:33

2026.01.19 Mazz Swift on Butch Morris - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/03/02

Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an ensemble, and to hear it performed in real time? How would you go about that? You would have to have an entire group imagining together. Lawrence "Butch" Morris did it by creating a compositional language that allowed him to convey musical ideas using physical gestures. His system, which he called "Conduction," was immediately

en

67:33

2026.01.19 Mazz Swift on Butch Morris - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/03/01

Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an ensemble, and to hear it performed in real time? How would you go about that? You would have to have an entire group imagining together. Lawrence "Butch" Morris did it by creating a compositional language that allowed him to convey musical ideas using physical gestures. His system, which he called "Conduction," was immediately

en

65:48

2026.01.19 Mazz Swift on Butch Morris - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/02/22

Improvisation is considered a high art form for an instrumentalist, but what about for a composer? Is it even possible to create a piece of music for an ensemble, and to hear it performed in real time? How would you go about that? You would have to have an entire group imagining together. Lawrence "Butch" Morris did it by creating a compositional language that allowed him to convey musical ideas using physical gestures. His system, which he called "Conduction," was immediately

en

64:04

2026.01.05 Jay Rodriguez on Jim Pepper - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/02/15

Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about these cultural collisions. His band Free Spirits was arguably the first to combine rock and jazz elements, and his oft-covered song Witchitai-To is perhaps the only hit to feature an authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop charts (we sure can't think of another one; can you?). Yes, this man changed the world, at least

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68:18

2026.01.05 Jay Rodriguez on Jim Pepper - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/02/08

Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about these cultural collisions. His band Free Spirits was arguably the first to combine rock and jazz elements, and his oft-covered song Witchitai-To is perhaps the only hit to feature an authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop charts (we sure can't think of another one; can you?). Yes, this man changed the world, at least

en

65:38

2026.01.05 Jay Rodriguez on Jim Pepper - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/02/01

Meet me at Edge City. Isn't that place where worlds collide the only one where new ideas are ever generated? Saxophonist Jim Pepper knew all about these cultural collisions. His band Free Spirits was arguably the first to combine rock and jazz elements, and his oft-covered song Witchitai-To is perhaps the only hit to feature an authentic Native American chant in the history of the Billboard pop charts (we sure can't think of another one; can you?). Yes, this man changed the world, at least

en

57:22

2025.12.22 Will Calhoun on Jack DeJohnette - 3 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/01/25

Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was not always accepted as truth. It was only developed in 1967, but once geophysicists saw how accurately it described familiar phenomena, there was no going back. At the exact same time, Jack DeJohnette was emerging as a new force on drums. His percussive vigor and complexity were profoundly unsettling to those who relied on the familiar

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69:46

2025.12.22 Will Calhoun on Jack DeJohnette - 2 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/01/18

Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was not always accepted as truth. It was only developed in 1967, but once geophysicists saw how accurately it described familiar phenomena, there was no going back. At the exact same time, Jack DeJohnette was emerging as a new force on drums. His percussive vigor and complexity were profoundly unsettling to those who relied on the familiar

en

61:41

2025.12.22 Will Calhoun on Jack DeJohnette - 1 of 3

Deep Focus ·

2026/01/11

Plate tectonics, this idea that the very surface of the earth is not an unyielding solid, but a set of independent segments in a constant state of flow, was not always accepted as truth. It was only developed in 1967, but once geophysicists saw how accurately it described familiar phenomena, there was no going back. At the exact same time, Jack DeJohnette was emerging as a new force on drums. His percussive vigor and complexity were profoundly unsettling to those who relied on the familiar

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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

en

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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