2023.01.09 Brian Charette on Jimmy Smith - 1 of 3
Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the Fifties and Sixties made him a festival headli...
16 Jan 20231h 18min
2022.12.12 David Soldier on Miles Davis 1974 - 3 of 3
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted So...
30 Dec 202239min
2022.12.12 David Soldier on Miles Davis 1974 - 2 of 3
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted So...
25 Dec 20221h 3min
2022.12.12 David Soldier on Miles Davis 1974 - 1 of 3
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the elephants play the instruments), Most Unwanted So...
19 Dec 20221h 13min
2022.11.28 Vernon Reid on Santana 1972 - 3 of 3
In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard playe...
15 Dec 20221h
2022.11.28 Vernon Reid on Santana 1972 - 2 of 3
In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard playe...
11 Dec 20221h 2min
2022.11.28 Vernon Reid on Santana 1972 - 1 of 3
In 1972, as Miles Davis was rewriting the genetic code of musical possibilities in NYC, Carlos Santana, his labelmate, was doing the exact same thing in San Francisco. Blazing electric keyboard playe...
5 Dec 20221h 3min
2022.10.31 Eric Person on Lester Bowie -3 of 3
"Lester Bowie": instead of thinking of that sound as a person's name, maybe we should start thinking of it as a verb. Here's one definition: to change the orientation of something familiar so that it...
20 Nov 202249min
