JodyJazz® has announced the introduction of the new DV JC which stands for “Jody Custom”. An exciting new addition to the DV Series saxophone mouthpieces, the new DV JC features design modifications based upon JodyJazz Founder & President, Jody Espina’s customized personal mouthpiece. Available initially in the Alto model it will soon be followed by the Tenor later in 2025.
Originally introduced in 2005, the DV series rapidly rose to become one of the most popular saxophone mouthpieces in the world, defying everyone’s expectations about the sound capabilities of a metal mouthpiece. The unique design of the DV offered free blowing power and projection without sacrificing a big fat mid-range and bottom end so commonly missing from most metal mouthpieces. Over the years since the introduction of the DV, Espina has made a series of tweaks and modifications to the design of his personal DV mouthpiece. As a working musician, Jody would find himself being called upon to play a diverse array of musical genres from week to week and his goal was to make his mouthpiece more perfectly suit the variety of musical environments in which he would most commonly find himself. Now that special design is being made generally available to everyone for the first time.
“As we occasionally made changes to my personal DV, over time it was getting better and better,” says Espina. “In the summer of 2024 we started to think about possibly making a 25th Anniversary limited edition mouthpiece and we started tweaking my personal DV even more. We came upon a version of the mouthpiece that I just freaked out over. I loved it so much that I decided it was too good and would be too universally embraced to make it a limited edition only. So, we are launching it now to be a regularly offered model in our DV line up.”
“In terms of sound, the new DV JC is in between the DV and the DV NY,” Espina continued. “But there is a characteristic about this mouthpiece that makes it feel even less like a metal piece than the others. Big, fat and warm with enough power to do all the variety of jobs I do, but sweet and dark enough to play beautiful ballads. Everyone is always impressed when they play the regular DV Series mouthpiece, but now I think if they try the new DV JC they won’t be able to put it down.”
The new DV JC JODY CUSTOM Alto is constructed from 14kt gold-plated virgin bell brass and is available in 6, 7 & 8 tip openings. Its MSRP will be the same as the other standard DV and DV NY Alto models.
