Making Sound with Jann Klose

EPISODE 146: New wave icon Howard Jones is very proud to announce the “Things Can Only Get Better” North American tour for summer, 2026.  The feel-good 80s event of the summer features a bill curated and headlined by Jones himself with support from fellow British 80s greats Wang Chung, The English Beat and Modern English and will be hosted by SiriusXM’s Richard Blade. A pioneer of electronic music...

EPISODE 145: Rob Arthur is a musician, filmmaker and watercolorist.  He's currently the bandleader for the Peter Frampton Band. His new (and first) foray into filmmaking has yielded the new documentary "FRAMPTON". From the explosive heights of Frampton Comes Alive! to the quiet introspection of his final tour, "Frampton" is an intimate portrait of a rock icon who soared, s...

EPISODE 144: Charlie Feldman joined BMI’s New York creative team in October of 1988 after having overseen EMI Music Publishing’s Nashville office as Vice President and General Manager. He spent fourteen years in Nashville with EMI and thirty one years in New York with BMI, retiring at the end of 2019. As Vice President of BMI’s New York creative department Feldman and his team signed Taylor Swift,...

EPISODE 143: Electronic music pioneer Howard Jones has been a constant presence on the international touring scene for the past four decades, playing live in a number of different configurations including intimate solo shows and dates with his full high-tech band set-up. He first burst upon the contemporary music scene in 1983, with his very English songwriting and pioneering synthesizers with “Ne...

EPISODE 142: Joe Matera is an Italian-Australian musician, music journalist, and author. Over the course of his illustrious performing career, he has played guitar for famed British music legend Steve Harley, supported the likes of Canned Heat, The Animals, and Bay City Rollers in concert and earned a top five selling instrumental album on the Australian ARIA chart. He has co-written and recorded...

EPISODE 141: The Blackbyrds were at the cutting edge of jazz fusion, R&B and funk in the 1970s, pushing the boundaries of Black popular music forward in one of the most musically fertile decades of the past century. Established by legendary jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd in 1973, the band's success includes several highly touted albums, film scores (1975's "Cornbread," "Ea...

EPISODE 140: Christine Ohlman is the long-time vocalist with the Saturday Night Live Band on NBC whose towering hair earned her the nickname “The Beehive Queen.” She is one of the queens of American Rock n’ Soul, deeply embedded in the scenes in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and New Orleans Louisiana as well as—of course—NYC.  She leads Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez, with whom she has released six...

EPISODE 139: Blair Mowat is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning composer with over 200 projects and nearly two decades of experience across film, television, and theatre. Credits include Class (a spin-off from Doctor Who), McDonald & Dodds , Hammer Horror’s Doctor Jekyll , Russell T Davies’s Nolly (TV BAFTA-nominated score and Camille Award winner), The Guest , After the Flood , and The Age of Di...

EPISODE 138: Matthew Feder is a Los Angeles–based film and television composer known for co-composing the scores for the Netflix docuseries Arnold and the immersive film Asteroid (which premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival), both alongside longtime collaborator Christophe Beck. He has contributed additional music to a wide range of films and series including Agatha All Along, Road House, The...

EPISODE 137: Embracing a broad range of musical styles, British singer-songwriter Tasmin Archer's soulfully silky voice has graced a strong catalogue of songs with an eclectic mix of themes since the 1990s. Archer first came to public attention in 1992 with the UK chart topper and worldwide hit 'Sleeping Satellite' taken from the platinum debut album 'Great Expectations'....

EPISODE 136: Phil Manzanera is one of the UK’s best-known musicians and record producers, having shot to prominence in the early ‘70’s as the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. He is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading guitarists and is in much demand both as a performer and record producer. Now in his fifth decade as a professional musician, in addition to his work with Roxy Music, he has wor...

EPISODE 135: A pioneer of the brash, no-holds-barred style that came to dominate morning shows on rock radio in the 1990s, Joey Reynolds began working as a deejay at small stations in 1960. In 1963 he returned to his hometown of Buffalo, New York, where he worked at WKBW, the powerhouse station whose signal reached two-thirds of North America. Mixing traditional Top 40 histrionics with rants and r...

EPISODE 134:  Dave Rosenberg began his career as an actor in New York, performing on stage and screen alongside renowned talents such as Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind), Olympia Dukakis (The Chekhov Cycle), and Austin Pendleton (The American Clock).Over the years, Dave has expanded his creative pursuits to include writing, directing, producing, stand-up comedy, teaching, and anti-bullying public spe...

EPISODE 133: Beth Lane is a multi-hyphenate artist based in Los Angeles and Ojai. She most recently produced, directed, and wrote the award-winning feature documentary UnBroken . A trained actor and coach, she has performed on both coasts—from dancing at the Metropolitan Opera House with the legendary Jessye Norman and Samuel Ramey, to starring in acclaimed LA theater productions like West Coast E...

EPISODE 132: A soulful and distinctive singer, talented keyboardist and songwriter, T Bear (Richard T Bear) made his mark as a solo artist and collaborator with many iconic artists—Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Blues Brothers, Richie Havens, Cher, Paul Shaffer, to name a few. In 1978, T Bear signed with RCA Records and released Red, Hot & Blue that featured Les Dudek, Billy Squier, and the Brec...

EPISODE 131: Philadelphia native Tim Johnson Jr. has established himself as a dynamic singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. At just 10 years old, Johnson’s talents led him and his family to Las Vegas, where he landed the coveted role of Young Simba in Disney’s The Lion King. His acting career continued to flourish with roles in Everybody Still Hates Chris (Paramount), Sat...

EPISODE 130: Mustapha Khan is an Emmy Award-winning American director of uniquely inspiring narrative, documentary and television films. His credits include: Song For Our People, a new music documentary currently playing in film festivals; Rocksteady , a coming-of-age action movie about a small town stock car racer; House on Fire , an award-winning documentary about the AIDS epidemic in Black Amer...

EPISODE 129: Winning the hearts of millions of fans in the 80s as the lead singer of British band Kajagoogoo, Limahl enjoyed the instant celebrity of hitting the top of the charts with his debut single ‘Too Shy’ which was followed by two more Top 20 hits ‘Ooh to Be Ah’ & ‘Hang on Now’ (all of which he co-wrote). After being unceremoniously (and infamously) kicked out of the band, Limahl struck...

EPISODE 128: Laurence Juber is a GRAMMY® winning guitarist, solo performer, recording artist, composer and arranger. A music graduate of London’s Goldsmith’s College, he was featured guitar soloist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra before becoming established as a studio musician in the mid-1970’s. First internationally recognized as lead guitarist in Beatle Paul McCartney’s band Wings, with...

EPISODE 127: Francis Dunnery defies easy categorization. His work reflects a deep commitment to personal freedom and individuality. While his style is often playfully philosophical, he’s also capable of crafting achingly profound, beautiful music. Dunnery first gained public recognition in the 1980s as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the progressive rock band It Bites, achieving chart success a...

EPISODE 126: Fernando Perdomo is a multi instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter originally from Miami, Florida. The LA Times dubbed him "the millennial answer to Todd Rundgren". He was featured in the movie "Echo In The Canyon" playing guitar for Jakob Dylan, Fiona Apple, Beck, Cat Power, Regina Spektor, Brian Wilson and more. He currently is the guitar player for Mar...

EPISODE 125: Marcella Detroit aka Marcy Levy, singer songwriter from Detroit Michigan is a multi instrumentalist, vocalist and producer and has penned hits for some of the greats including Eric Clapton, Al Jarreau, Belinda Carlisle, Chaka Khan and more. She was a 50% member of UK band Shakespears Sister being vocally featured on their mega hit “Stay”, which was number one on the UK charts for a re...

EPISODE 124: Ibrahim Nash'at is a multi-award-winning Egyptian documentary filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. His career in journalism spans various formats, working with several international channels and online platforms such as Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, AJ+, Voice of America and others. Ibrahim holds a master degree in documentary filmmaking from Met Film School. He co...

EPISODE 123: Larry Fast is known for his series of pioneering electronic music albums recorded under the project name Synergy . He is also recognized for his decade of work with Peter Gabriel as well as contributing to numerous platinum selling recordings with other world-renown artists, including Foreigner, Bonnie Tyler, Nektar, Meatloaf, Annie Haslam (Renaissance), Hall & Oates, Barbra Strei...

EPISODE 122: Composer of the award-winning feature films Peace by Chocolate, Daughter of the Sun, and Botero, David Bertok writes for film, TV, and the concert hall. After graduating from music college in Germany, David enjoyed a busy career as a live musician touring Europe with progressive rock bands opening for acts such as Scorpions and Saga. His band, Subsignal, reached the German album chart...