“You and your Jazz team are excellent! Your renditions are fresh and enlivening as well as unique and personally crafted. It is always wonderful seeing you work, spreading beauty and joy into life through music. I loved your scatting! I am very excited for you with your new assignment!" --Daphne Owens, Singer, Teacher @ Blue Room, Cranston RI
"You're the real deal.” ---Mike Marra (Bass Guitar with Clarence Clemons, Nils Lofren, Steve VanZant, Run DMC)
…"ICONIC"…---Chelsea Morgan, Director/Choreographer, THE WEDDING SINGER, Academy Players, RI
“In all seriousness, you did a great job with that recording. Mission accomplished”… Carlos/Bassist on Bandmix commenting on “Excuse Me”.
“Ur special, I am thankful u came into my life"… John DeWare, fan, Amos House, Providence
"Dear Dyan, Again, many thanks for the 2 CDs. Your LUSTROUS VOICE SHINES THROUGH ON ALL THE TRACKS. Right away, I noticed Ann Ronell's ‘Willow Weep for Me’ on Dyatribe which was my favorite on the album. Also, ‘Come Together’. On Soul of the Water, I was particularly charmed by ‘Caravan’, my favorite Ellington. And nicely surprised by Esperanto. Maybe when I am in Providence again, I'll have a chance to see you perform in person. That would be a treat!” ---Peter Nevraumont, Writer, (HOAX), publisher, editor, award winning art director, producer “Ten Takes on 'Round Midnight", a TMonk Documentary Film.
"You are not a 'chick singer'. You are one of a very rare breed of jazz vocalists. You made it easy. And it's fun getting to play behind a real jazz singer. Hope we get to do it again." ---Bassist Bryan Frankie Rizzuto, Providence, RI
FROM: MICHAELMAXKOHL
SUBJECT: You're SO good
"Dyan, I'm writing to tell you that I stumbled on your {Bandmix} profile and your music sounds SO good! You've got great feel as a vocalist, and the arrangements in your recordings are sick. You're clearly a great singer and musician. Keep kicking butt out there!"
“You were absolutely spectacular flawless perfection. You blew me away and hit a Home run. Definitely a magnum opus performance!”-- Deb Graff, Innocence Project, Sleepless in Studio City, LA
"The SOUND is AWESOME! I LOVE the ARRANGEMENTS...And your voice sounds like BUTTER...The instrumentality...just can't say enough! OUTSTANDING!! " --Jennifer Jones, LA Based Director/Producer/Actor regarding "SOUL of the WATER"
"I love your voice...you could read the phonebook....You're a lady of class...not everybody can be a jazz vocalist"..... ---AJ Parrish, Operations, WEIB 106.3 Radio re: "Soul of the Water"
"I must say, the way you follow or lead the jazz with your vocals was very impressive. I really enjoyed your singing and drifted off to it yesterday. For that I thank you. The keyboard player in your sessions and the sax player were equally primo. I heard your Bonnie Raitt rendition (of I Can't Make You Love Me). Wonderful." ---(KEITH DeVAUGHN, Poet, Baltimore, Maryland)
“Just turned on my iTunes and Prince, The Beautiful Ones, played. Afterwards, I Can’t Make You Love Me, came on, and I tried to figure out who the awesome singer was, Lalah Hathaway perhaps? No, it’s Dyan Kane!!! Love it!” — Jennifer Jones, (Director/Producer/Actress, LA)