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Eldar Djanjirov
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Last September, I saw Eldar at Founder’s Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, Calfornia. There was a lot of hype about this young man and I was a little skeptical going into the concert.
He came out with his trio and sat down at his piano. Then he started playing and about half way through the first...
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Artist Interview by Gerard W. O'Brien
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Chris 'Minh' Doky
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To promote his new CD ‘Cinematique,’ bassist-composer Chris Minh Doky has been recently touring in Europe with a powerful trio featuring himself on double bass, Makoto Ozone on piano and Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts on drums.
After some gigs in London, the trio travelled to Brussels on January 13th for a sold out concert at the ‘Music Village,’ a jazz club...
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Artist Interview by Jempi Samyn
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Julia Dollison
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Meet vocalist and composer Julia Dollison. She’s performed with Maria Schneider’s acclaimed orchestra, and her recent debut CD is creating its own buzz. On Observatory, she showcases original compositions, reinvents standards, and even covers Rufus Wainwright’s beautiful ballad “Poses.”
The material is wide ranging, but not without a theme. “These are observations about an inner journey,” Dollison explained. It’s...
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Artist Interview by Donna Kimura
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Miles Donahue
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One of the really fun parts of doing interviews for Jazz Review, besides the huge salary and private jet, is the chance to speak to some of the most amazing musicians working in the field of jazz and this is a real case in point. Miles Donahue has been called "one of the best kept secrets in jazz" by...
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Artist Interview by Jim McElroy
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Will Donato
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More than any other song on Will Call, the title of the song, “Whatcha See is Whatcha Get,” defines the personality of jazz saxophonist Will Donato. There is a lot about this CD that gives the listener insight to this gifted, smooth jazz musician, take for instance the back cover of the CD where the beautiful woman whom he...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Joel Dorn
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No wonder seasoned professional producer, Joel Dorn, keeps on winning those Grammy Awards—He’s experienced, he’s intuitive, and he’s comfortable with himself.
It takes years for each of us to find our “self.” Dorn has done that. It shows in his work and in his relatedness with others. Maybe that’s why Aces Back To Back, the Bobby Darin...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Dave Douglas
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The trumpet’s a strange, little instrument. A few feet of plated brass tubing on which legendary careers have been built. Yet like any instrument – essentially a tool to produce sound - no two play are played alike. Consider and contrast the subdued, thoughtful delivery of Miles’ muted tone, the stratospheric blasts of Dizzy or the rich, burnished...
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Artist Interview by Mike Brannon
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Kaïssa Doumbé
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Every once in a while, it’s interesting, and gratifying, to interview an artist who seems to be on the verge of discovery by the larger listening public. Such a person is Kaïssa Doumbé.
Since she is known professionally and to her devoted listeners as Kaïssa, many people don’t even know her last name. Furthermore, American audiences may not even be...
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Artist Interview by Don Williamson
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Will Downing
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R&B singer Will Downing is the perfect axiom that you cannot keep a good man down. Albeit being diagnosed with polymyositis, a disease that incapacitates one’s muscles, I’m happy to report to Will’s fans that their favorite singer is doing just fine.
When I caught up with Downing last week, he was in high spirits, laughing and talking and...
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Artist Interview by Asha Brodie
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Will Downing
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My mother had a friend who passed on some time ago and that lady was one of the biggest Lou Rawls' fans in the world. She had a life-sized, cardboard cut out of him in the entryway of her home. I mean she was a ''ride and die'' fan. I wouldn't go as far as to sticking a cardboard...
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Artist Interview by Sheila Chadwick
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Will Downing
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It’s no surprise Will Downing hit the charts as soon as his new album, Soul Symphony, hit the airwaves. Downing has been basking in success since the 1980s, with his rich as honey, smooth as silk, baritone voice, drenching each song with a flavor all his own. Always deep, always himself, surviving the fads of the moment; yet, thriving...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Will Downing
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A tall glass of cool water, when the sun is shining bright, is always a welcome treat, much like the new “Sensual Journey” CD from the tall glass of cool named Will Downing. The vocalist, who has been wowing us for well over a decade, has just released album number nine, and did not forget the kitchen sink, or...
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Artist Interview by Monica India Johnson
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Ray Drummond
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As a student enrolled in Stanford Business School, Ray Drummond could have chosen a much easier life than that of a jazz musician. The mere fact that he left school to journey down that difficult road is a testament to the bassist's love for the music. He is one of the most in-demand bassists of our time. Christian McBride...
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Artist Interview by Fred Jung
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Carol Duboc
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"The concept began when I started looking for a special Valentine’s song. I
realized there weren’t many out there so I wrote my own.” Wow, what an easy way
for a conversation to begin, straight forward and right to the point.
Carol Duboc is a seasoned and experienced
songwriter/arranger/pianist/vocalist and all around music professional.
Talking about her fourth CD...
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Artist Interview by Bruce Pulver
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Carol Duboc
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Carol Duboc’s first two independent releases, “With All That I Am” (2001) and Duboc (2003) established her as a major presence on the contemporary jazz scene, receiving constant airplay at smoothjazz.com and Satellite Radio XM, along with high praise from top critics like the Los Angeles Times’ Don Heckman, who hailed her unmistakably seductive vocal style as having “the...
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Artist Interview by H. Allen Williams
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Candy Dulfer
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Many labels have been applied to the music performed by Dutch alto saxophonist Candy Dulfer, including, smooth jazz and funk, but it is perhaps the superlatives that her fans use to describe her music that is most accurate, words like, unbelievable, wonderful, incredible and awesome.
Speaking to me on the phone from the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, where...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Matt Dusk
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Let me be perhaps the first to introduce you to Matt Dusk. Matt Dusk is Canadian. Matt Dusk is adorable. Matt Dusk is, to sum it up, a gracious, thoughtful, fun, mature singer with a reality about the music business that seems to be innate. And he is all this at the remarkably young age of 28. I assumed...
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Artist Interview by Mary Jo Conniff
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David Dyson
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If you want the "regular" with a side of cookie-cutter smooth jazz…sorry, that’s one thing bassist David Dyson won’t serve you! The main ingredient this young talent pours in all of his work is a large dose of musical integrity. Sure integrity might feel good to the soul, but does it pay the rent? Well, it has...
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Artist Interview by Monica India Johnson
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Brenda Earle
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JAZZREVIEW: I’ve listened to your album Happening, and I like it very much. You have a very good band, and a nice sound with the Saxophone and strings. However, on the song that you sing with Julie Hardy, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic I can’t tell you two apart.
BRENDA EARLE: That’s interesting isn’t it?
JAZZREVIEW: Yes it...
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Artist Interview by Gerard W. O'Brien
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East East Bay Soul
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“I think that we can pull from all of our lives’ experiences and our music. That’s where this is going to come from. It is going to be seasoned. It is going to be like a fine bottle of wine. We are going to uncork it and let it breathe,” says one of the world’s premier smooth jazz trumpeters...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Mark Elf
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Guitarist, Mark Elf, is dedicated to celebrating his music, his career and his life. For more than 30 years, Elf has written songs, played guitar, taught and recorded music. Now head of his own label at www.jenbayjazz.com, Mark Elf is glad to be alive, and glad to be doing what he does, in a voice that’s all his own....
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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Mark Elf
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New York has many fine guitar players. Mark Elf is one of the finest bop players on the scene today. His resume reads like a who’s who of jazz including work with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath and others. Mark Elf’s string of six consecutive #1 recordings since 1997, have established...
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Artist Interview by Dan Clemons
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Kurt Elling
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Recently, I had an opportunity to speak on the phone with jazz vocalist Kurt Elling while he was in the midst of a tour. When one reads an interview with Elling, it would be easy to misconstrue his candor as bordering on pompous, because the reader does not have the advantage of listening to the inflection of his voice,...
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Artist Interview by Joe Montague
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Richard Elliot
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Richard Elliot has always been one who has made his own trail to success. The Glasgow, Scotland-born saxophonist started his career by touring with the Pointer Sisters and Natalie Cole and then played as a studio musician for Smokey Robinson, the Four Tops, the Temptations and the Yellowjackets. His Yellowjacket work helped Elliot gain a spot on their tour...
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Artist Interview by Norm Breest
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John Ellis
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Creating an eclectic cocktail with the swamp tradition of New Orleans and the suave sophistication of New York, John Ellis has created a cocktail of pure attitude on his new release, Dance Like There's No Tomorrow.
Though geographically hundreds of miles separate the cities, an undefeatable spirit joins them. Both cities have faced recent catastrophes but both are coming...
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Artist Interview by Nina Goodrich
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