Making Sound with Jann Klose

EPISODE 46: Founded in Woodstock, NY Orleans went from club and college funk in the Northeast United States to worldwide acclaim with their top ten singles "Still the One," Dance With Me," and "Love Takes Time.”  Members of the band have collaborated with an array of artists including Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Little Feat. In 2022, the group celebrates its 50th year of l...

EPISODE 45: Born and raised in Utah, Ryan Shupe is a 5th generation fiddler, an accomplished electric guitar, acoustic guitar and mandolin player, and has been performing throughout the country since he was 10 years old. Being a young prodigy, Ryan was a member of the nationally acclaimed “Peewee Pickers” where he first met and played with Alison Krauss. After forming in 1997, Shupe and his band,...

EPISODE 44: Chuck Alkazian (born January 11, 1972) is a Grammy winning American record producer from Michigan. Starting in 1980, Alkazian has developed, produced, recorded, mixed and consulted for countless diverse artists in all musical genres. He has produced songs for Royce Da 5'9", Eminem, Chris Cornell, Trust Company, Pop Evil, The Romantics and Sponge. He also has a strong presence...

EPISODE 43:  Michael Cerveris is a two-time Tony Award and Grammy Award winning actor for Fun Home, The Who’s Tommy, and Assassins, (also Lucille Lortel Award) with additional Tony nominations for Evita, LoveMusik, and John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd.  Other Broadway includes In The Next Room, Hedda Gabler, Cymbeline, and Titanic.  Off-Broadway includes King Lear, Macbeth, Abingdon Square, Nikolai and t...

EPISODE 42: Leagan Starchild is a drummer, artist and producer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has influenced South African music with his versatility and ability to adapt to any style of music. His drive, passion for good music and high calibre of musicianship led him to opportunities such as his first professional gig with Benjamin Dube, on Benjamin’s Live DVD Benjamin Dube & The Hig...

EPISODE 41: Danny Burstein  is an American actor and singer, most known for his work on the Broadway stage. Burstein is a seven-time Tony Award nominee; for The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), South Pacific (2008), Follies (2012), Golden Boy (2013), Cabaret (2014), Fiddler on the Roof (2016), and Moulin Rouge! (2020). He has also won two Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, and received t...

EPISODE 40: Becky and Nathan Bliss make up the critically acclaimed duo Barnaby Bright and have accumulated a dedicated following that feeds on the group’s ability to spin storytelling into sonic treasures. Nathan’s melodic acoustic guitar finger tapping and Becky’s effortless vocals soaring over her hypnotic harmonium push the boundaries of today’s indie folk landscape. The couple has received th...

EPISODE 39: Eyal Amir is a musician and music technologist. For the last 15 years, Eyal has been active in the global music scene. He became known as the leader and main composer for his prog-rock group Project RnL, and for his collaborations with other musicians such as Jordan Rudess, Jack Conte, Noa and many others. In the last few years Eyal has also focused on his love of music tech, developin...

EPISODE 38: Josh Dion is a Brooklyn based drummer, singer, songwriter and producer. He and Geoff Kraly comprise the duo known as paris_monster, which features a unique setup incorporating drums and synth while singing.  “Beyond this visual impossibility is a careful and deliberate balance of frequencies, colors, and textures. Melodies to serve a story. Chaos to destroy preciousness.” Aside from pa...

EPISODE 37: If blue-eyed songstress Judy Blank would tell you she grew up in some sun-soaked town in California, you’d probably believe her. But nothing could be further from the truth. Hailing from The Netherlands, the young singer-songwriter is not afraid to fuse musical genres, influenced by several pilgrimages across the southern United States. On her breakthrough LP Morning Sun, a 1970s inspi...

EPISODE 36: Tommy Williams and Kenny Forgione have been leading the Long Island based tribute band Wonderous Stories since 1994. The group of musicians also including Ricky Martinez, Kevin McCann and Mark Bonder started out as a YES tribute band and began incorporating other mainly progressive rock songs and artists in their repertoire. The band grew a massive following locally and started playing...

EPISODE 35: Mark ‘s career began in earnest in New York City in 1987 when he began working with dance music legend Arthur Baker at Shakedown Sound as an engineer, mixer, programmer, and musician. Between 1987 and 1991 Mark worked with such diverse artists as Quincy Jones, Janet Jackson, The Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, Lou Reed, Oingo Boingo, Dream Academy, The Fat Boys, Grayson Hugh, Pete Wylie,...

EPISODE 34: Multi-award winning vocalist, songwriter, and producer Natalie Nicole Gilbert released her dance pop album, Don’t Blink, last February. The 10-track album includes dance covers and extended remixes produced by Latin Grammy-nominated producer, engineer and remixer Robert Eibach (Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift). Gilbert's career has included collaborations with a number of film compose...

EPISODE 33: Eric Alper started his own PR firm after being the Director of Media Relations and Label Relations for eOne Music Canada for the past 18 years. He's also CTV's music correspondent and a regular contributor to Bell Media, Rogers, Shaw Media, among others. He was named by Billboard Magazine, Paste Magazine and The National Post's as "best on social media." With o...

EPISODE 32: An artist who tours extensively in the US and abroad, JD Eicher is known for indie and alt-pop music with expressive vocals and carefully-crafted lyrics. With four full-length albums to his credit, JD was enlisted to create the soundtrack to author Nicholas Sparks’s ( The Notebook , A Walk To Remember ) 20th book, Two By Two . He has shared billing with a wide range of well-known acts,...

EPISODE 31: Shelly Peiken is a multi-platinum American songwriter best known for Christina Aguilera’s No. 1 smash, “What a Girl Wants,” and Meredith Brooks’ GRAMMY nominated “Bitch.” Shelly has also written for and with, Jessie J, Britney Spears, Bebe Rexha, Demo Lovato, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Keith Urban and has had hundreds of songs placed in TV and film. Her book Confessions of a Serial Son...

EPISODE 30: With numerous Billboard-charting singles, over 200 releases, and millions of album sales under her belt, Alexandra Forbes exudes a contagious passion on the subject of songwriting. Her material has found a home on major and indie labels, feature films and TV in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Founder of the top songwriting coaching site CreativeSongwriter.com and author of the inspirational...

EPISODE 29: Sam Lewis has collaborated with everyone from Leon Russell to The Wood Brothers. Chris Stapleton dubbed him “a modern Townes Van Zandt”. He’s often labeled with some form of the word ‘soulful’ (some comparing his voice to molasses), Lewis’ style meets at a juncture of many different genres however he’s discovered what most musicians spend lifetimes working for; the place where feel-goo...

EPISODE 28: Since the release of his critically-acclaimed debut album 'Gone Wanderin’', Greene has built an enduring audience through a relentless touring schedule with the likes of BB King, Mark Knopfler, Susan Tedeschi, and Taj Mahal. He played lead guitar with The Black Crowes on their Layin’ Down With #13 World Tour, recorded and toured with Trigger Hippy - his supergroup with Joan O...

EPISODE 27: American soprano Alyson Cambridge is one of the most diverse and compelling vocal artists on the scene today. She is praised for her “powerful, clear voice” by The New York Times , hailed by critics for her “radiant, vocally assured, dramatically subtle and artistically imaginative” performances ( Washington Post ), and celebrated for her “sultry and seductive readings” ( Opera News )....

EPISODE 26: Having created a deep impression on the acoustic blues roots and Americana scene with his last two Nashville recorded albums, Harleys gritty electric album ‘Roll With The Punches’, recorded in a remote chapel deep in the wilds of Pembrokeshire, takes country blues riffs to the electric bottleneck slide guitar and serves them with sweet vocal harmonies. It features some of the UK’s musi...

EPISODE 25: Detroit native and celebrated rock guitarist Mike Skill has been a working musician for more than four decades. Skill’s roots lay in 60's Motown, Traditional-Garage Blues and New Wave Punk movement. He spent his early days in New York City with one of his first bands, Motor City Rockers, playing clubs including historic CBGB with the New York Dolls, Syl Sylvain and friends in atte...

EPISODE 24: Larry Campbell is one of Americana’s most well-regarded multi-instrumentalists and producers. He's toured and recorded with Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, and Hot Tuna. Larry (as Levon Helm’s music director for eight years) along with Teresa Williams, collaborated with Levon Helm on three GRAMMY® Award-winning albums. Steeped in traditional gospel and years of performing in...

EPISODE 23: Bakithi Kumalo (born 10 May 1956) is a South African bassist, composer, and vocalist. Kumalo is most known for his fretless bass playing on Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, in particular the bass run on "You Can Call Me Al". Bakithi was born in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, surrounded by relatives who loved music and actively performed. He got his first job at t...

EPISODE 22: Back in the heyday of vinyl, Andy VanDette started, as intern, at the legendary Masterdisk. After completing his degree in Tonmeister Studies, he was hired full time. During the explosion of the audio CD format, he created CD Masters and Radio Edits with mastering luminaries while observing their perspectives on processing and musicality. By the time the MFiT standard was introduced, A...