Making Sound with Jann Klose
by Jann Klose
Making Sound is a new podcast show hosted by singer and songwriter Jann Klose. Shows are centered around Jann chatting with fellow artists, friends and colleagues from entertainment, tech and travel world. The setting is informal and relaxed and episodes are available on all major podcasting platforms and makingsoundpodcast.com
Episodes
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Tony Levin
EPISODE 152: Tony Levin is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. His most notable bass playing albums and tours have been with: Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Buddy Rich, Peter...
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Rachel Flowers
EPISODE 151: Rachel Flowers is recognized worldwide as a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose music encompasses multiple genres. She first gained recognition for her talent as a young child and has been admired and mentored by those at the top of their field: Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Dweezil...
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Martina Radwan
EPISODE 150: Martina Radwan, a German-Syrian, is an award winning director and cinematographer. After moving to New York City in the mid 90’s, she DP’ed several fiction films before she developed a deep interest in documentaries. Her love for verité and observational story telling makes her one…
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Jane Getter
EPISODE 149: NYC-based Jane Getter is a “triple-threat” (Geoff Wilbur)—guitarist, singer, ASCAP award-winning and NYSCA commissioned composer. Getter’s 2026 7D Media release, Transmogrify, coalesces a lifetime of musical exploration into intricate arrangements, powerful playing, and killer solos....
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Nicole Zuraitis 2
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...
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Johnny Manchild
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…
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Howard Jones 2
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...
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Rob Arthur
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…
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Charlie Feldman
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...
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Howard Jones
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...
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Joe Matera
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...
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Keith Killgo of The Blackbyrds
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...
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Christine "The Beehive Queen" Ohlman
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...
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Blair Mowat
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...
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Matthew Feder
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...
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Tasmin Archer
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...
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Phil Manzanera
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....
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Joey Reynolds
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...
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Susan Gorrell & Dave Rosenberg
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...
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Beth Lane
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...
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Richard T Bear
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…
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Tim Johnson Jr
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...
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Mustapha Khan
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…
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Limahl
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…
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Laurence Juber
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...
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Francis Dunnery
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...
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Fernando Perdomo
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…
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Marcella Detroit
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...
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Ibrahim Nash'at
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…
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Larry Fast
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...
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David Bertok
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...
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Howard Bloom V
EPISODE 121: Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain's Channel 4 TV. One of his eight books--Global Brain---was the subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defense including...
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Segun Akinola
EPISODE 120: Segun Akinola is a British-Nigerian composer for film and television who has strengthened many projects with his musical acumen. He is most known for his music in the three series of Doctor Who starring the first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker. A BAFTA Breakthrough Brit 2017, Segun’s...
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Erick Willis & Robinson Treacher
EPISODE 119: Island Hopper Songwriter Fest Special. Erick Willis: In a time when many artists are striving to find their identity, Erick Willis is slowly leaving his mark on the scene, with a personality that is true and not just a stage persona. Taking cues from the music he was raised on Erick…
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Volker Bertelmann
EPISODE 118: Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka is an international acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician. In 2023 he was honored with an Academy Award and a BAFTA in the Best Score category for his work on All Quiet on the Western Front (directed by Edward Berger). His score to Garth...
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Jager Henry
EPISODE 117: As the grandson of John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) and son of Jason Bonham, Jager Henry is no stranger to the music industry. While he could have followed in his family’s footsteps as a drummer, he instead is forging his own path as a frontman and showcasing his songwriting chops. Jager...
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Richo Lost Boy
EPISODE 116: Richo Lost Boy aka Ricardo Sandoval is a Mexico City based musician whose band Niñoz Perdidoz is releasing a new album this season. Richo went viral on both TikTok and Instagram with his "mindfulness" short videos that addressed many social issues and crime in Mexico....
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Willie Nile
EPISODE 115: The New York Times called Buffalo, NY born Willie Nile "one of the most gifted singer-songwriters to emerge from the New York scene in years." Uncut Magazine called him “A one-man Clash” and “the unofficial poet laureate of New York City”. His album Streets Of New York was hailed as…
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Will Lee
EPISODE 114: Grammy-award winning Will Lee has done it all in the music business. Perhaps best known as bassist for over three decades on The Late Show with David Letterman, he holds the world’s record for longest-running bassist on late night television. Will has also lent his considerable…
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Giulia Millanta
EPISODE 113: Born in Florence in the beautiful Tuscany region of Italy, Giulia Millanta is an award-winning Indie Folk singer songwriter, professional chef and author based in Austin, Texas. She plays guitar, upright bass, ukulele and sings in four languages (English, Italian, Spanish and…
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Mindi Abair
EPISODE 112: Two-time Grammy nominee Mindi Abair is a saxophonist, vocalist, and author of “How To Play Madison Square Garden.” You might know her as the featured saxophonist on American Idol, or from touring and/or recording with Aerosmith, Duran Duran, Gregg Allman, Smokey Robinson, and more.…
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Larry Beckett
EPISODE 111: Larry Beckett's poetry has been published in Zyzzyva, Field, Salamander, the anthology Portland Lightsfrom Nine Lights Press, and his first book, Songs and Sonnets from Rainy Day Women Press, was favorably reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle. Beat Poetry, a study of the San...
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Monty Ma
EPISODE 110: Monty Ma started his career in the heyday of Internet radio and digital music start-ups in Silicon Valley with such pioneers as Live365 and Project Playlist, where he managed content and programming, product development, and data analytics. The beginnings of his career trace back to...
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Derek Frank
EPISODE 109: After years of touring the world with artists such as Gwen Stefani, Shania Twain, Shakira, Air Supply, and others, veteran LA bass player Derek Frank decided it was time to take a slight detour from the life of a “hired gun” musician and focus on his own instrumental quintet.…
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Jeffrey Lee Campbell
EPISODE 108: Jeffrey Lee Campbell, originally from North Carolina, is a guitarist, composer, and producer. He has been a professional musician for over forty years—thirty and counting in New York City. In addition to touring the world with Sting, he’s performed with artists including Sammy Davis...
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John Zaika
EPISODE 107: John Zaika is a Dallas, TX based producer, songwriter and engineer currently working on "Kite On A String: The Bobby Kimball Story" that tells the story of the TOTO front man's life, work, career and struggle with dementia. John was born in Dearborn, MI and has worked on numerous...
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Tony Pulizzi
EPISODE 106: Tony Pulizzi has been a leading guitarist in the Los Angeles area for over a decade now and enjoys a music career filled with versatility and experience. Within a year after relocating to LA, Tony quickly made his impact on the west coast and became the house guitarist on American...
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Simon Kirke 2
EPISODE 105: Simon Frederick St George Kirke (born 28 July 1949) is an English rock drummer best known as a member of Free and Bad Company, the latter of which he has been the only continuous member since their inception. In addition to his work with Free and Bad Company, Simon has guested on a...
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Max ZT
EPISODE 104: House of Waters is the confluence of multiple streams. With immersive studies in India, Senegal, Japan, the Americas, and beyond, House of Waters has synthesized a new and unique sound. For sixteen years, Max ZT (hammered dulcimer) and Moto Fukushima (six-string electric bass) have...
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Martina Radwan & Ruchi Mital
EPISODE 103: Martina Radwan, a German/Syrian, based in New York City more than two decades, is award-winning cinematographer and filmmaker. “Saving Face,” the 2012 Academy Award Winner for Short Documentary and Emmy winner, earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography in 2013. Her...
About this show
Making Sound is a new podcast show hosted by singer and songwriter Jann Klose. Shows are centered around Jann chatting with fellow artists, friends and colleagues from entertainment, tech and travel world. The setting is informal and relaxed and episodes are available on all major podcasting platforms and makingsoundpodcast.com
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