EDUARDO, Cruising A Melody
Not since David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (and Peter Schilling’s later rejoinder “Major Tom”) and Elton John’s “Rocket Man” has a rock...
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Jonathan Widran
- Sep 7
ROBERT LaROCHE, Forevermore
Several decades after the original heyday of power-pop sensations The Sighs and their breakthrough album What Goes On, it’s amazing to...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 5
NATHALIE BONIN, Aspirations
On a purely musical level, perhaps the most dynamic and inspiring aspect of Nathalie Bonin’s exquisitely composed, arranged and performed...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 4
HANNAH GILL, Everybody Loves a Lover
The hip, colorful and retro green-tinted packaging of Hannah Gill’s full length debut album Everybody Loves a Lover indicates that the 11...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 4
THE NEW WONDERS
A hundred years later, the culture, music and enduring mystique of the Roaring Twenties still hold a deep fascination for those who care...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 4
AUDREY SILVER, Oklahoma
Audrey Silver’s magnificently arranged, thoughtfully and beautifully crafted homage to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s iconic musical Oklahoma...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 4
THE JIM SELF & JOHN CHIODINI QUINTET
There’s that fascinating instrument with the wild hybrid name again – FLUBA! A super low bass toned tuba sized flugelhorn designed by...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 4
MASUMI ORMANDY, Beyond The Sea
To fully understand just why Masumi Ormandy’s triumphant jazz career at the ripe young age of 84 (culminating in her exquisitely arranged...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 4
THE BIX CENTENNIAL ALL-STARS, Celebrating Bix!
Considered one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke only lived 28 years, but his legacy and...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 2
MATT ROLLINGS TRIO, The Valentine Sessions
Even if there were no grand comeback story attached to the Matt Rollings Trio’s eminently engaging, sweetly mellifluous yet often...
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