Making Sound with Jann Klose

EPISODE 148: Nicole Zuraitis is a 2X GRAMMY® winning and 6X GRAMMY-nominated jazz singer-songwriter (nominated in 4 distinct categories: Best Jazz Vocal Album, Best Large Jazz Ensemble, Best Jazz Performance and Best Arrangement), pianist, producer, arranger and winner of the prestigious American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal. With a “heart as big as her remarkable voice,” (Jazz Police), Nicole has positioned ...

EPISODE 147: Johnny Manchild And The Poor Bastards’ new album, SIDE EFFECTS, is due out on July 24th and is produced, engineered, mixed, and arranged by Johnny Manchild himself. The new release expands their sound from its solid base of alt-rock with a power pop punk influence and piano to include heavier guitars, a full horn section, and hints of industrial noise, along with rapid-fire vocals.  In support of SIDE E...

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, Howard Jon...

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, stumbled, and rose again. This feature documentary trace...

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, Norah Jones, Gav...

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 “New Song”. His first...

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 music with ABBA guitarist Janne Sch...

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," "Earl and Me"), as well as supporting such iconic artists as B....

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 Disclosure, an explosive and ...

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,&nb...

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'. Three further singles from the album were top 30 hits in the...

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 worked with ma...

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 raves about anyone who had upset him...

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 speaking through his organization,...

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 Ensemble’s Assassins and ...

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 Brecker Brothers. He has shared t...

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), Saturdays (Disney), Baller...

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 America; twenty years of original films a...