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?
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
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
Bassist Tom DiCarlo performs for the New Brunswick Jazz Project Wednesday Feb 1 with Vanessa Perea and Thursday February 2, with Lee Hogans. 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:
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),
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
NBJP: If you could only own one CD, what would it be? TC: No question it is Miles Davis "Round About Midnight". This was my first jazz record and I continue to learn from it and enjoy it more and more. NBJP: What inspires you creatively? TC: Generally, I am inspired by people. I actually try to write tunes for particular people,
NBJP : If you were about to have your last meal, what would it be JD: Nona's homemade Italian pasta NBJP: What musician influenced you the most? JD: I think to honestly answer this one I would have to include two... Tony Williams and Bill Evans NBJP: What quality do you like most about yourself? JD: I have been told on
NBJP: If you could live anywhere on the planet, where would that be? DS: In a country and a planet where people had learned to get along with each other and had the compassion to help those less fortunate, and would work together for that goal regardless of their political affiliation NBJP: You are a musician, is there another art
CURTIS TAYLOR Photo: Phillip Dowdell NBJP: What would you want to be if you weren’t a jazz musician? CT: Not quite sure but if would definitely involve helping people in some way! NBJP: What inspires you creatively? CT: Hearing other great music/musicians Inspires me NBJP: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? CT: A