1. How old were you when you first started playing sax?
I started playing saxophone at the age of eleven in summer school.

Richard Elliot performing with Rick Braun tomorrow, March 13, 2025 until Sunday, March 16, 2025 at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle!

2. Who was/is your biggest musical inspiration?
I have many musical inspirations, but Grover Washington Jr. and Donald Fagen stand out as two of my major inspirations.

3. Where do you make your home?
I have lived in the San Diego area for the last twenty five years.

4. Do you have any pets?
We have two dogs, Walter, a French Bulldog and Dudley, a Newfoundland. We also have two horses, goats, two miniature pigs, two miniature cows and several alpacas.

5. What is the best concert/gig you have ever done?
It's hard to point out one concert, but I would say that playing with Huey Lewis and the News at Osaka Stadium in Japan in front of forty thousand people is a standout for me.

6. What is the best concert you have ever attended?
Earth Wind and Fire at the Los Angeles Forum in 1974.

7. Do you have an all-time favourite song or album?
Donald Fagen, The Nightfly

8. What musician would you still most like to work with?
Donald Fagen

9. If you weren't a musician what would you be?
A professional pilot.

10. What is your favourite thing about Vancouver?
The food! 🙂

~Vickie van Dyke
Midday Host and looking forward to meeting Richard for the first time this June on The Dave Koz Cruise!