YOUR COMMENTS about jazz inspired

 

"Jazz Inspired" is a radio series where fascinating, creative people talk about jazz and how it has inspired their own creative process.

 

Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired is an hour of intelligent, entertaining radio. Judy's warmth and humor engages her guests in fascinating, unexpected conversations and takes them places they seldom go in other interviews. I highly recommend Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired for a fascinating look at the creative process and jazz.

– Tim Owens, Peabody Award Winning producer of National Public Radio's Jazz Profiles

 

A radio series that looks at the creative process in a way that entertains and informs...and achieves this with distinction.

– Mark Yacovone, Director of National Productions WDUQ

 

I finally got around to hearing our entire interview on Jazz and Astrophysics. I think it is one of my best ever - magnified and strengthened by our on-air chemistry. Thank you again for your interest and your enthusiasm for what I do.

– Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, Director of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC, interviewed on Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired.

 

Judy's Interview with vocalist Jacqui Naylor is yet another beautiful radio moment. She wastes no time and gets right down to business with the easy-going Naylor.

Of special interest to jazz lovers, she takes a fascinating journey deep into the creative process. In this case she uncovers an unusual method that Naylor calls "acoustic smashing", singing one song while the band plays another. It's curious and astonishingly refreshing.

 

Carmichael covers a wide field and her thoughtful questions keep the pace moving along smartly. As a jazz performer herself, she has a unique insight into the world of live music and she takes full advantage of her inside status. A central idea here is that Naylor and her "acoustic smashing" have come upon a brilliant way to make standards truly new again. And there are plenty of examples throughout the piece to prove it.

 

I love the series "Jazz Inspired" and I loved this interview with Jacqui Naylor. So will your listeners.

– Review of Jazz Inspired - Jacqui Naylor by Geoffrey Tozer on PRX.org

 

...As an interviewer she brings energy, humor and personal experiences. She does a nice, honest interview. We're in love with her!

– David Kimball, President & CEO, KRML-AM, Carmel, CA

 

We like this show! ... It’s a good compliment to the weekend and fits very well with what we do here at KJAZZ...

– Mike Johnson, Operations Director, KKJZ 88.1, Los Angeles, CA

 

I have been a listener to KKJZ and its predecessors in the L.A. area since day one, decades ago. But in the last several years I've been highly disappointed with the quality of programming. The station has had many dedicated and first-rate DJs over the last 10 years but in the most recent ones they have disappeared one by one, until we have the mediocrity (and in my opinion, less in several instances) that prevails today. I thought the first move against that trend was the arrival of Jazz Inspired. I thought it was the best new programming idea in recent memory.

 

I thought I knew just about everything a true jazz appreciator should know, but your interviews have proven me wrong. As I've said, it is the insights into the creation of jazz that makes your hour so inique, important, and appreciated. I just hope station management appreciates that half as much as I do. If so, Jazz Inspired will be a fixture for years to come because you will never run out of significant artists to interview.

Kudos and long may you wave.

– Jim Donovan, Del Mar, CA

 

It's just after midnight here in Springfield, IL and I just finished listening to your interview with Steve Turre. Both of you are so articulate and honest. I really learned a lot tonight about jazz and the struggle of jazz musicians to maintain its place in the recording industry and the music world in general. I had never before looked at jazz as our own classical music here in the United States, yet now I do since having my consciousness raised during Jazz Inspired. I'll continue listening and learning throughout 2007.

– Virgnia, Fan in Springfield IL

 

Regarding Chevy Chase interview:

I can't get my jaw off the floor. What a great show! I'm stunned. I am really, really impressed. And I'm a cynical old fart, who doesn't like anything.

– Stephen, Fan in Asheville, NC

 

I'm Paul from Haiti. I'm 24 and a student at the University of Port-Au-Prince. Excuse my bad English. I'm creole and French speaker. I'm fond of your show. I didn't love jazz. I found it tedious. Now I'm keen on jazz - that's why I'm studying English. Ella Fitzgerald is so marvelous. I prefer old jazz because of saxophone. I love you - I'd be very glad if you write me back. You have a marvelous voice. Why not invite Diana Krall and also talk about yourself indirect? Salut ciao.

– Jacques Paul, Fan in Port-au-Prince

 

I'd like to add my humble thanks...First, that you care enough to pull a great staff together and do the show. Second, that you sound great (talking too) and ask SMART and SINCERE questions. Third, that you get a wide range of guests to enjoy your company and share the love of the music with us all.

 

Steve Turre was AWESOME. Wise, witty and damn honest, hip and happy. JUST LIKE HIS MUSIC. It was a fine, fine show and I've listened to it over and over, and shared it with jazzbo's...

 

I know Jazz pretty well, so everything you both said made a world of jazz sense. (And your bringing less obvious persons to talk, such as the somewhat introverted Christopher Guest, is a joy too. Not everybody can boast the life of Steve Turre!)

 

Your fine show can stand along with the panel discussions of "Detroit JazzStage Jazz Extras" in terms of depth of subject and integrity of presentation. And the quality of your show puts it with the ever great "NPR Jazz Profiles", Marian McPartland's "Pianojazz" and "Jazz at Lincoln Center" in my books.

 

Thanks for being hip enough to share the music and interviews via mp3 podcasts (not RealAudio, not pay per hear)...Jazz needs all the help it can get, as Steve made so clear. Jazz is not corporate muzak. And you and Steve make it clear why. It's the personality, and the past, and the fact that jazz is "really sayin' somethin'"

 

Thanks, Judy. Keep up the good work.

– Dennis Hermanson, Fan of Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired

 

Tonight after listening to opera on KUSC I tuned into KKJZ and heard your interview with Mr. Shulman, very interesting. Thank you. I then went to your website and listened to one of my faves, the Stacey Kent interview and I must say, thank you. You are a moving force and you stay out of the way in your interview style. Your ability to empower your guest is very inspiring (hmmm) to the listener. You get stuff out of them that we, as fans, would like to ask and get answers to. Thank you for your ear candy.
– Patrick Jeannette, Fan of Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired

 

My name is Eric J. McEntee I am a 27 year old musician/filmmaker, I just wanted to write-in to let you know that I enjoyed the show. I appreciate the way the interview was composed with musical tracks in between the dialogue. I think that I am more involved when I listen to good radio programs like yours than I am while watching television, or even the movie channels. You tend to zone out with television, where with your show tonight I really hung onto every moment. Plus Tv happens in a bubble, radio happens in the world.

– Eric J. McEntee, Fan of Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired