MASA TAKUMI, Heritage
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Jonathan Widran
- Mar 26, 2020
NICHOLAS GUNN, Pacific Blue
A sonically expansive, ever evolving 27 years since making his debut back in his lead flute playing days with Afternoon in Sedona,...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 25, 2020
MYRA MELFORD/ZEENA PARKINS/MIYA MASAOKA, MZM
Sometimes the best pathways to understanding the intention and necessity for innovative artists to make experimental/avant-garde/purely...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 25, 2020
ROBERT DICK/JOELLE LEANDRE/MIYA MASAOKA
In his fascinating liner notes for Solar Wind, a trippy, offbeat and purely improvised avant-garde collection combining the collective...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 25, 2020
VANDERLEI PEREIRA AND BLINDFOLD TEST, Vision for Rhythm
Had versatile Brazilian drummer emerged from his vast decades long resume as a sideman with his majestic and melodically sweeping,...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 25, 2020
JAY WILLIE & JAMES MONTGOMERY, Cadillac Walk
Combining the dual rockin’ blues genius of veteran guitarist/slide guitarist/vocalist Jay Willie – longtime leader of the Connecticut...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 25, 2020
VITO DIETERLE, Anemone
A fixture on the NYC jazz scene for years as free-lancer/sideman and owner of the jazz bars, the Silver Lining and The Django, Chicago...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 25, 2020
VITO DIETERLE/JOEL FORRESTER, Status Sphere
Status Sphere, one of the more deeply imaginative, powerfully dynamic yet tenderly intimate Thelonious Monk tributes in recent memory,...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 25, 2020
JOHN DI MARTINO, Passion Flower: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
Generally when jazz heads ponder the fruitful nearly three decade relationship between Duke Ellington and pianist, composer and arranger...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 25, 2020
SCHAPIRO 17, New Shoes: Kind of Blue at 60
Now over 60 years since its release, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue is hailed as a masterpiece of not just jazz but all modern music. In...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 24, 2020
HIROMI KANDA, Seven Elegant Ballads
In my overwhelmingly positive review of Japanese born vocal interpreter extraordinaire Hiromi Kanda’s 2013 collection Days of Yesterday,...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 24, 2020
SKINNY HIGHTOWER, Blue Moon
As dynamic and infectious as the hits that made composer, keyboardist and producer Skinny Hightower a force in urban jazz are, the deeply...
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