KURT REIMAN, A Glimpse of Grace
Sometimes emerging musical artists like to downplay their so called “day jobs,” and their history in other industries, as if they are not...
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Jonathan Widran
- Sep 27, 2022
ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE, Songs of Leonard Cohen Live
In 2018, Toronto’s famed Art of Time Ensemble musical collective – under the musical direction of founder, pianist and album producer...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26, 2022
PHIL HURLEY, The Firebird Sessions
In the nearly 30 years since his band Gigolo Aunts hit the UK charts with “Where I Find My Heaven” from the Dumb & Dumber soundtrack,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26, 2022
JOE MARCINEK BAND,
The word “band” can mean a lot of things, from a longstanding group of cats, to a core whose surrounding players often change to the kind...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26, 2022
IZ.M.B., Nowhere Town
Since emerging singer/songwriter IZ.M.B.’s second album, the edgy, hard hitting coming of age confessional Nowhere Town, came out at...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 25, 2022
GORILLA APOCALYPSE, Blow Your Mind
The soulful breezily flowing grooves, sassy and sensual female vocals and overall loungey dreaminess of the seven exquisitely inviting...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 24, 2022
CHRISTIAN PARKER, Best Kept Secret
Listening to veteran singer/songwriter Christian Parker’s new full length release Best Kept Secret is a bit like a sweet, easy grooving...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 24, 2022
THE BIG CHEESE BAND, Everything
It only takes five ultra-witty, musically whimsical songs on The Big Cheese Band’s latest EP Everything to get sucked in big time to the...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 24, 2022
BEWARE WOLVES, Beware Wolves
The mysterious but uber-talented emerging singer/songwriter known as Beware Wolves must think very highly of his ability to engage the...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 24, 2022
BARKHOUSE, Paper & Ink
One of the more unique aspects of indie music making in the streaming era is being able to announce that an emotionally compelling,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 18, 2022
JAN HAMMER, Seasons Pt. 2
Sometimes a certain casually written line in a review can turn out to be prescient. At the tail end of my write-up on Sketches in Jazz,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 15, 2022
JUDY WHITMORE, Isn't It Romantic
Whether she’s swinging fancifully with some of SoCal’s top jazz musicians or inviting us to experience a deeper intimacy with her richly...
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