SEVEN ?s WITH BEHN GILLECE
VIBRAPHONIST, BEHN GILLECE PERFORMS THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 16 AT MAKEDA
NBJP: Other than the instrument you play, what’s your favorite instrument to listen to?
BG: Piano
NBJP: Who’s your favorite non-jazz composer?
BG: Frank Zappa
NBJP: What inspires you creatively?
BG: Pretty much anything can spark it!
NBJP: What’s one thing other than milk or water we’d ALWAYS find in your refrigerator?
BG: Eggs
NBJP: What’s your favorite jazz club to perform in?
BG: Smalls
NBJP: When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
BG: An author
NBJP: If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
BG: If I could answer that, then I probably would have done it already!
SEVEN ?S WITH MISHA FATKIEV
GUITARIST MISHA FATKIEV PERFORMS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 7-10PM AT GLASS WOODS TAVERN AT THE HYATT
NBJP :If you were about to have your last meal, what would it be?
MF: Depends on who’s cooking! Ha:). Seriously though, I love lamb kebab
NBJP: What’s your favorite jazz club to go to if you’re going to hang?
MF: It’s always a blast at Makeda’s, we end up hanging for hours after the gig!
NBJP: What musician influenced you the most?
MF: Jimi Hendrix
NBJP: What instrument, other than the one you play, would you like to be able to play?
MF: Trumpet!! I always wanted to play trumpet. And I did for a while (shhh..:))
NBJP: What’s your favorite non-musical pastime?
MF: Eating, lol
NBJP: What’s your favorite jazz tune?
MF: This is a tough one, I love the tune, “The Man I Love”
NBJP: What quality do you like least about yourself?
SEVEN ?s WITH ABE OVADIA
Guitarist, Abe Ovadia, performs next Tuesday, Valentine’s Day at Makeda.
NBJP: Other than being a musician what’s the best job you ever had?
AO: Camp counselor for 2nd graders!
NBJP: What one word would your friends use to describe you?
AO: Eccentric
NBJP: What’s the one thing about you few people know?
AO: I used to work for Carnival Cruise Lines as a guitarist.
NBJP: How old were you when you first played in front of an audience (other than family) and what song was it?
AO: 9 years old and it was The Star Spangled Banner
NBJP: What’s your favorite city to visit?
AO: Los Angeles
NBJP: What’s your favorite guilty pleasure?
AO: Popped Corn, pretzels, crackers with some apple juice right before going to sleep!
NBJP: What musician influenced you the most?
AO: John Coltrane and his Classic Quartet
SEVEN ?s WITH TOM DICARLO
Bassist Tom DiCarlo performs for the New Brunswick Jazz Project Wednesday Feb 1 with Vanessa Perea and Thursday February 2, with Lee Hogans.
photo: Chris Drukkar
NBJP: What musical instrument (that you don’t play)would you like to be able to play?
TD: Piano
NBJP: What’s your favorite jazz tune?
TD: “West EndBlues”
NBJP: What is your favorite non-musical pastime?
TD: Being Outdoors
NBJP: What’s a food you shouldn’t eat, but can’t resist?
TD: Cheesecake!!
NBJP: What would you like to be if you were not a bassist?
TD: I love playing the bass.
NBJP: What musician influenced you the most?
TD: One of them is Red Mitchell. There are many though…
NBJP: If you could only own one CD/album, what would it be?
TD: “Love Deluxe” by Sade
SEVEN ?s WITH ALEX COLLINS
NBJP: What living musician do you admire most? Why?
AC: Quincy Jones because he is an artist who has found a way to make beautiful music that is both true to himself and accessible to the public audience.
NBJP:What would you want to be if you weren’t a jazz musician?
AC: An anthropologist
NBJP:If you could only own one CD (Download–whatever), what would it be?
AC: The Best of Chick Corea
NBJP: Complete this sentence: If I can, I try to avoid_____________________
AC: Driving too fast on the highway
NBJP: What’s the worst job you ever had?
AC: I played on a gig where someone fell on my keyboard and almost broke it.
NBJP: What’s the last book you read?
AC: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
NBJP: If you could live anywhere, where would that be?
AC: I would live somewhere near water where the temperature was always above 70 degrees.
SEVEN ?s WITH CONRAD HERWIG
NBJP: Other than the instrument you play, what’s your favorite instrument to 
listen to?
CH: B-3 Organ. Larry Young, Jimmy Smith, Lonnie Smith, Jack McDuff, Shirley Scott, and many more.
NBJP: What’s the worst job you ever had?
CH: Playing the rodeos inTexas. So much dirt and dust was like cement on a trombone slide.
NBJP: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be?
CH:New York,NY. Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Birdland, Jazz Standard, for a jazz musician it’s the Capital of the World.
NBJP: Who’s your favorite non-jazz composer?
CH: Alban Berg. He was the “Romantic” of the serial( 12-tone) composers.
NBJP: What’s the last book you read?
CH: “Einstein’s Dreams” by Alan Lightman. It imagines the dreams about parallel worlds that Einstein was having in 1906, as he wrote the Theory of Relativity.
NBJP: What’s your favorite (“G” rated!) guilty pleasure?
CH: Has to be Golf.
NBJP: What musician do you believe has influenced you the most?
CH: John Coltrane. He was a transcendent human being and musician. His music and life inspire me every day.