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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