Follow Your Dream - Music And Much More!

Narada Michael Walden is a dual musical Superstar. As a producer and songwriter he dominated the 1980s and 90s with worldwide hits by first-name-only icons like Whitney, Mariah and Aretha, plus dozens of others.  And he’s also a Superstar drummer. In the 1970s he played on some of the most important recordings of all time by artists like the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Jeff Beck, Chick C...

Shoshana Bean is a remarkable, extraordinary Superstar Artist! She’s a 2x Tony Award nominated Broadway actress and a Grammy winning singer. Her Broadway experience includes “Hell’s Kitchen”, the Alicia Keys musical, for which she won a Grammy Award, a Tony nomination, a Drama League nomination, and a Drama Desk nomination. She previously received similar award nominations for her performance oppo...

Yousif Abbas is an internationally acclaimed Iraqi virtuoso Oud player, composer and cinematic music specialist. He’s known for blending traditional Arabic music with modern cinematic language. He’s the youngest oud instructor in the Arab world. His music has been featured in major Arabic dramas and he’s won the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Award for Artistic Innovation. And he’s the lead composer for t...

Sofia Rei is a Latin music star. Argentinian born, 2x Grammy nominated, singer, songwriter and producer. She’s a classically trained mezzo-soprano. She combines South American folk music, jazz, pop, new classical and electronic into a fantastic mixture. She sings in Spanish, English and Portuguese. She’s released 6 albums and she’s worked with Bobby McFerrin, Mark Ribot and Maria Schneider among o...

Jan Fairchild is a renowned recording and mixing engineer. He’s a 2x Grammy winner for his work with Norman Brown and Gladys Knight. He’s also been Grammy nominated for his work with Mos Def and “The Ecstatic”. He’s written and produced songs for Ne-Yo, Michael Bolton and Laura Branigan. And he’s worked with this All-Star lineup of artists: Pharrell Williams, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige, Whit...

Benny Benack III - BB3 - is a phenomenal, extraordinarily talented, Emmy nominated, double threat guy. He’s a world class trumpet player and a world class singer/crooner all in one. He’s a consummate showman too and he lights up the room. He’s carrying on the tradition of the great crooners. Sinatra would be proud of him. He was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk Competition on trumpet, and he also...

Helen Whitney is an Oscar nominated, and Emmy and Peabody award-winning, producer, director and writer of documentaries and feature films. Her subjects have included youth gangs, presidential candidates, the McCarthy era, mental illness, Pope John Paul II, Great Britain’s class structure and photographer Richard Avedon. She’s worked with actors like David Straithern, Brenda Fricker and Estelle Par...

Andy Vargas has been the lead singer of Santana for over two decades. He’s collaborated with artists like the Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, and Enrique Iglesias. He co-founded Malaspalabras Records with comedian George Lopez. He also started a non-profit foundation to inspire, mentor, and educate underprivileged youth who dream of making it in the music business. My featured song is “It Don’t Matter”...

This is an Encore Presentation of my March 2024  interview with John Cowan, All-Star Singer and Bassist. He’s a longtime member of the Doobie Brothers and was previously with New Grass Revival with whom he was inducted into the Bluegrass Hall Of Fame. He’s played with a Who’s Who including Bela Fleck, Alison Krause, Huey Lewis, Chris Hillman and Leon Russell.  My featured song is “My Love” from th...

Cesar Orozco is a prolific Cuban/Venezuelan pianist, vocalist, violinist and composer and 2x Latin Grammy nominee. He specializes in fusing Cuban and Venezuelan music. He’s worked with Paquito D’Rivera, Pedrito Martinez, Ariacne Trujillo Durand and Mike Stern, to name just a few. He’s played on more than 80 albums including eight of his own. His newest band, SonAhead, is a fusion of Cuban son and...

Sasha Cooke is the 2x Grammy winning mezzo-soprano superstar opera singer. She’s been called a “luminous standout” by The NY Times. She’s had performances with the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera and others, and with over 90 symphony orchestras worldwide, frequently singing the works of Gustav Mahler. She is also the co-director of the vocal program at the Music Academy of the West. An...

Amelia Davis is the owner of legendary Rock Photographer Jim Marshall’s archive, his former assistant, and the caretaker of his legacy. Jim Marshall was a photojournalist, street photographer and the Godfather of Rock and Roll Photography in the ‘60s. His work captured that era and is still relevant today. Jim photographed everyone from the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix to the Grateful Dead. Amelia has...

Benjamin Hochman is a dual threat artist. He’s a pianist and a conductor. As a pianist he debuted at 24 as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall conducted by Pinchas Zukerman. He’s performed with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago and Pittsburgh Symphonies, and Prague Philharmonia among others. As a conductor he has led the orchestras of Szeged in Hungary, the English Chamber Orc...

Nicole Zuraitis is a fabulous 2x Grammy winning and 4x Grammy nominated jazz singer-songwriter and pianist. This lady has an absolutely gorgeous voice. She won the American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal. She’s collaborated with Christian McBride, Morgan James, Livingston Taylor and Benny Benack among others. Nicole leads her own quartet and has performed and recorded with the Birdland Bi...

This SPECIAL EPISODE is a tribute to RICK DAVIES, who died this past week at age 81. Rick was the founder of, and one of the two lead singer-songwriters of, Supertramp, one of the greatest bands of the rock era. In 1979 the band hit their zenith with the album “Breakfast In America”, which sold over 20 million records. Rick played keyboards and wrote several of the band’s greatest hits. His songs...

Tim Davis is an acclaimed studio singer, producer and arranger for film, TV and recordings. To quote his Bio: “If you’ve been to a Disney theme park, played a video game, bought a pop album, seen a tv show, commercial or film in the last 20 or 30 years, you’ve probably heard Tim’s voice, or one of his vocal arrangements, delivered by some of the world’s best singers.” Six seasons of the show “Glee...

Nigel Pearce is the world’s leading expert and collector of Apple Records, the record label founded by The Beatles. He’s got an amazing collection of Beatles and Apple recordings and memorabilia. He owns every record officially released by Apple Records plus imports and demo recordings, including one by Frank Sinatra! He gives Presentations on Apple Records and the artists involved. His latest pro...

Peter Moore is a virtuoso Irish-British trombonist. He was Born in Belfast and brought up in Manchester, England, and he was part of the world renowned Brass Band culture in the North of England.  He came to international attention in 2008 when, at aged 12, he became the youngest ever winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year. He’s performed with a number of Europe’s leading orchestras, including t...

Miist is a Chinese multicultural singer with multiple Billboard hits and international awards. She’s the first Chinese artist ever to land a Top 25 Billboard Pop/AC hit. She’s written over 80 original songs in English, Mandarin and Spanish. And she only got started at age 34. She was abandoned at age 5 and was a terminal cancer survivor at age 28. She now serves as an ambassador for Teen Cancer Am...

THIS SPECIAL EPISODE introduces “SUNDAY SLIDE”, my new single. It’s been called “A fun, upbeat, you-gotta-move song!” and it continues my recent run of instrumental tracks.  I’m pleased to say that "Sunday Slide" features three incredible Guest Artists:  Laurence Juber (Wings with Paul McCartney) plays guitar Paul Hanson (Bela Fleck) plays the bassoon Eamon McLoughlin (Grand Ole Opry band) plays t...

Art Schreiber has had an incredible 60 year career in broadcast journalism, ultimately running Westinghouse Radio’s national and international news service operations. During his career Art interviewed John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Beatles among many others. He has so many fascinating stories about these celebrities. And he paints a vivid picture of a bygone era in broadcas...

Vicky Chow is a celebrated Hong Kong-Canadian-American pianist. She plays contemporary classical music, which is quite different from traditional classical. She is the pianist for the Bang On A Can All Stars, a terrific ensemble. The New York Times has described her playing as “brilliant”. She has collaborated and worked with artists like Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, John Zorn, Bill T. Jones and A...

Morgan James is a spectacular singer, songwriter and Broadway actress. On Broadway she has appeared in shows including Motown: The Musical, Godspell, and The Addams Family. Her singing runs from Joni Mitchell to The Beatles to her own songs, and she has collaborated with the band Postmodern Jukebox. She has a brand new album, “Soul Remains The Same”, in which she gives the Morgan James treatment t...

Eric Andersen is a legendary Troubadour and singer-songwriter who first came to prominence during the 1960s folk music scene in Greenwich Village and Boston. He was a central figure in that era which included Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Richard Fariña. Some of his famous early compositions were “Thirsty Boots,” “Violets of Dawn,” and “Close The Door Lightly When You Go”. These songs were...

Tony Platt is a legendary UK recording engineer. He pioneered working in reggae with Bob Marley and with Toots and the Maytals, and he worked on rock sessions with Traffic, Free, The Who, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. He worked on AC/DC’s classic albums “Highway To Hell” and “Back To Black”. He also produced and engineered Iron Maiden, Motorhead and Cheap Trick.                            M...