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TERRY LEE NICHOLS, Love Is...
Sixty years after Jackie DeShannon introduced us to Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s timeless Grammy Hall of Fame song/anthem/prayer “What...
Jonathan Widran
12 minutes ago


RAVITA JAZZ, Alice Blue
Even before the first listen to Alice Blue , the extraordinary, fancifully eclectic second album by Dr. Philip Ravita’s ever-adventurous...
Jonathan Widran
4 days ago


LILI MALJIC, The Nearness of You
Long renowned on Central Europe’s jazz scene as “Lili Mae,” Serbian born, Austrian based vocalist Lili Maljic’s exquisitely arranged,...
Jonathan Widran
6 days ago


DOUG MacDONALD, Live at the Rancho Mirage Library
Over the course of nine reviews I have written about guitarist Doug MacDonald and his various lineups (trio, quartet, big band, etc.)...
Jonathan Widran
6 days ago


ALBARE, Eclecticity
In my previous praise-filled writeups of versatile veteran jazz guitarist Albare’s Plays Jobim, Vol. 2 , Freedom and Beyond Belief , the...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 9


MELISSA KASSEL & TOM ZICARELLI, Moments
Since the title of the debut album by the Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group is Moments , it’s appropriate to imagine just how many...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 9


DEBORAH SILVER, Basie Rocks!
Boasting a two-word title that whets the whistles of jazz/big band fans and classic rock lovers alike, multi-genre vocal interpreter...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 9


THE BILLY LESTER TRIO, High Standards
Spiritual minded jazz artists often sense the presence of the ghosts of legends in the room when they’re composing, improvising and/or...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 9


BONNIE J JENSEN, Rise
A sultry, multi-genre talent whose sense of invention knows few bounds and gleefully hops barriers between pop, jazz, Latin and soul,...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 9


ANN LICATER, Echoes from the Forest
Over the course of eight albums since the release of her auspiciously titled debut Following the Call (2007) , the grand swirl of joy...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 3


HENHOUSE PROWLERS, Unravel
Even two decades and 10 studio albums into the Henhouse Prowlers’s extraordinary, internationally celebrated career, it’s hard to believe...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 1


BRIELLE BROWN, In Art & Soil The Same
The term “Renaissance woman” is a convenient phrase, probably bandied about too much, to describe someone who’s pretty much done it all,...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 30
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