CHAMPAIGN PAULI CARMAN, "When Your Heart Beats With Mine"
Back in 1981, when the pop/soul band Champaign first stole our hearts with their uber romantic genre crossing Billboard #1 AC, #4 R&B hit...
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Jonathan Widran
Feb 22, 2022
SAMUEL MÖSCHING, Ethereal Kinks
The story goes that while Swiss born, longtime Chicago based guitarist/composer Samuel Mösching first started playing jazz at age 12, he...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 22, 2022
BLUE SHIFT, In Real Time
Aside from being a true master class in the art of piano trio driven free jazz and spontaneous improvisation, In Real Time, the debut...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 22, 2022
AMOS GILLESPIE'S UNSTRUCTURED TIME FOR JAZZ SEPTET
'In addition to being an influential educator at the University of Illinois, Chicago, saxophonist, composer, arranger and musical...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 22, 2022
COURTNEY FREED, Big Crazy Love
Anyone curious as to why the supremely versatile, sweet and sensual voiced Portland, OR based singer/songwriter Courtney Freed took over...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 22, 2022
DEE BELL, Love For Sailin' Over Seas: Then & Now
For veteran vocalist Dee Bell, it all began with a rendition of “Happy Birthday.” While singing it to a customer at the Sausalito, CA...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 20, 2022
MONSOON, Ghost Party
While every emerging indie band has or should have a detailed bio about where they and their musical intentions come from, few have a...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 18, 2022
DAVE STRYKER, As We Are
Veteran (and mindbogglingly prolific!) electric guitar great Dave Stryker has been in a delightful 70’s musical time warp on and off for...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 18, 2022
LAURA STILWELL, Out of a Dream
As we regale in being graced by sultry and stylish vocalist Laura Stilwell on her engaging, alternately soul-sensual and briskly swinging...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 18, 2022
JAMES GAITERS SOUL REVIVAL, Understanding Reimagined
Truly the crowning masterwork in a stylistically expansive, multi-genre career as a sideman and recording artist, James Gaiters Soul...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 18, 2022
CORINA BARTRA, Amber Light
Richly infused with joyful bustling exotica and sultry, seductive and balmy romance, Amber Light caps famed Peruvian vocalist Corina...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 18, 2022
DOUG MACDONALD AND THE L.A. ALL-STAR OCTET
If you’re trying to find a specific album from the vast, ever-growing catalog of the brilliant veteran guitarist Doug MacDonald on the...
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