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

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 the bus or where this bus is going.  Who's driving th...

7 Juli 202459min

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, some reference to his social concerns, and, of course...

1 Juli 20241h 12min

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, some reference to his social concerns, and, of course...

23 Juni 20241h 1min

"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, you will be annihilated, humiliated for the rest of ...

9 Juni 20241h 4min

"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, you will be annihilated, humiliated for the rest of ...

2 Juni 20241h 6min

"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, you will be annihilated, humiliated for the rest of ...

26 Maj 20241h 2min

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 not recorded completely or not recorded at all (if ...

19 Maj 20241h