2024.06.24 Eric Person on Art Blakey - 3 of 3

2024.06.24 Eric Person on Art Blakey - 3 of 3

Author: Small Media Large July 21, 2024 Duration: 59:31
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 the bus? Art Blakey is driving!  Who's riding the bus? Everybody!  Where's this bus going? Straight ahead!   Seventeen years of Deep Focus and no one has ever called for Art Blakey's music?  I don't know how that is possible but it ends Monday night (6/24).  Saxophonist/Jazz scholar Eric Person joins host Mitch Goldman to focus on the music this one-of-a-kind drummer/bandleader.  They will play recordings from the WKCR archives that even hardcore Blakey fans have never heard.     It's on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time.  Or join us next week when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/.  Either way, it's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.  Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us onInstagram at deep_focus_podcast.   Photo credit: © Herman Leonard Photography LLC, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #EricPerson #ArtBlakey #JazzMessengers  #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #JazzRadio

Mitch Goldman, from Small Media Large, sits down with a different working musician each week for Deep Focus. The premise is beautifully simple yet endlessly revealing: together, they dive into rare archival recordings-bootlegs, demo tapes, lost studio sessions-of an artist the guest deeply admires. This isn't a standard interview format. Instead, you're listening in on a shared, intimate listening session between two knowledgeable fans. The conversation flows from technical dissection of a guitar tone to personal stories about how a particular live bootleg soundtracked a pivotal life moment. You'll hear the crackle of a vintage tape as Mitch and his guest pause, rewind, and marvel at a forgotten vocal take or an experimental arrangement that never made the official album. This podcast lives in the spaces between the famous tracks, uncovering the raw, unpolished moments that often reveal an artist's true process and passion. It’s for anyone who believes the magic isn't just in the finished product, but in the journey of how it got there. Each episode of Deep Focus feels like being invited into a private club where the sole entry fee is a genuine love for music's hidden corners.
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