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JANET NOGUERA, "Favor From the Wind"
The title of Janet Noguera’s hypnotic, soul seductive fingerstyle meditation “Favor from the Wind” feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy,...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


DAVID BARON, "End of One Thing"
Among David Baron’s most fascinating credits as a musician and arranger in the pop world – a list that includes everyone from Lenny...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


LARRY FAST/SYNERGY, "Insects"
A true pioneer of synthesizer music, Larry Fast created the conceptual alter ego Synergy to create a series of nine groundbreaking...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


KARLIJN LENGENDIJK, "The Golden Hour"
Since releasing her debut album, a dual project with Tim Urbanus titled Leap of Faith in 2015, 26 year old acoustic guitarist and...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


BERNWARD KOCH, "An Old Fairy Tale"
Though his 2020 myndstream debut album Becoming launched him into his incredible fourth decade of timeless new age recordings, it feels...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


ROGER KELLAWAY, "Autumn"
The title of pianist/composer Roger Kellaway’s 2019 hard swinging jazz trio album The Many Open Minds of Roger Kellaway captures the...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


WILL DONATO, "The Goddess"
With some contemporary urban jazz artists, all it takes is that one breakout smash to take their solo career to a whole new level. For...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 14, 2021


KIM SCOTT FEATURING ALTHEA RENE & RAGAN WHITESIDE, "I'm Every Woman"
Penned by the legendary songwriting team of Ashford & Simpson, the female empowerment anthem “I’m Every Woman” has enjoyed a dynamic...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 14, 2021


BLAKE AARON, "Feels So Right"
There’s only one phrase that fits when two prolific, relentlessly creative hit making forces of musical nature like guitarist Blake Aaron...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 14, 2021


ALBERTA and THE DEAD EYES, You Said Something
Usually when a review attempts to sum up the kind of coolness, otherworldliness and raw, jamming but slyly languid garage-rock cool we...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 3, 2021


JOHN DeNICOLA, She Said
Nearly 35 years after a certain smash hit he co-wrote on the “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack earned him an Oscar, a Grammy nom and an ASCAP...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 3, 2021


PAUL JOST QUARTET, While We Were Gone: Live at Soapbox Gallery
For those as yet unfamiliar with veteran NYC singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Paul Jost, nothing you’ve heard before in the...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 1, 2021
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