Up and Coming Indie. Jazz Artist of Soul Food

Jazz  Making  Big Waves

In times of mass produced Hip Hop and Pop music, it’s refreshing to see a young man dare to step outside the box and construct his own sound. This is what the world will witness with the twenty one year old saxophone virtuoso Dwayne Joseph Leonard Johnson Jr.(“DJ”). He has created his own genre of music, that he has titled Soulfood Jazz. It’s a blend of Gospel, Smooth Jazz, and Old School R & B with Classical undertones. The songwriter, composer, and senior at the University Of South Carolina School Of Music says “It’s all about love; I have to let the people feel my music”. And feel his music is what you do, there is not a dry eye in the house on Sunday mornings when D.J. and his Ministers of Praise lead the Praise and Worship service at his father’s church, The House of Prayer Open Door Ministries in Alcolu, SC, were …     more…