DOUG MacDONALD, Santa Monica Session
Veteran guitar great Doug MacDonald is not only one of contemporary jazz’s most prolific (10 albums in seven years) and diverse (quarter...
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Jonathan Widran
10 minutes ago
JACK WOOD & NICHAUD FITZGIBBON, Movie Magic: Great Songs from the Movies
A veteran Southern California singer long known for his passion for vintage swing and timeless balladry, Jack Wood cleverly titled his...
Jonathan Widran
14 minutes ago
VINCENZO VIRGILLITO, Precondition
Aside from the fascinating array of sounds Vincenzo Virgillito creates via his double bass, electric bass, Fretless 5 and 4 strings and...
Jonathan Widran
16 minutes ago
DANAE XANTHE VLASSE, Mythologies II
To better understand the truly epic, musically and spiritually transcendent recording projects of the extraordinarily gifted musical...
Jonathan Widran
5 days ago
NEIL TATAR, "Bella"
Though he launched his career as a new age artist later in his life, composer, guitarist and pianist Neil Tatar has been an impactful,...
Jonathan Widran
5 days ago
MASA TAKUMI, "Kashira"
One of the wonderful perks of having the opportunity to review music in all genres is the opportunity to listen to pieces from so many...
Jonathan Widran
6 days ago
YOYOKA, For Teen
Full of effusive praise from cultural tastemakers and rock legends alike, listeners are prepared to hang on to and affix to the edge...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 30
JIM GELCER & DAVID VITO GREGOLI, "Letting Go"
While millions of little girls learned about the concept via Idina Menzel as Queen Elsa’s showstopping Oscar winning “Let it Go” from...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 30
JIM "KIMO" WEST & DAVID VITO GREGOLI, "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"
With literally thousands of versions of secular and sacred Christmas songs in the canons of every musical genre and a few hundred new...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 30
LAIRD JACKSON, Life
It makes sense that Laird Jackson’s long awaited, wildly eclectic and offbeat but emphatically triumphant return to recording is titled...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 30
LIZ COLE, I Want to Be Happy
In these anxious times where sociopolitical divisions and economic worries seem to be a constant undercurrent in our day-to-day lives,...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 29
JOE SYRIAN MOTOR CITY JAZZ OCTET, Secret Message
Secret Message , the splendidly era shifting, mood-swinging debut album by the Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Quartet, unleashes on the rest...
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