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Jonathan Widran
Oct 30, 2024
JOE BAIONE, Vibe Check
Contemporary and straight-ahead jazz fans, it’s time for a serious Vibe Check ! Any rave review or enthusiastic endorsement for veteran...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 29, 2024
DeeAnn, "Stay Here With Me"
We’ve all been in that dark, despairing place that multi-talented singer/songwriter DeeAnn sings of on her soulful, deeply passionate new...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 28, 2024
GINA SOBEL, Redbud
As we drift along and groove easy through the six soulful, compelling tracks of Gina Sobel’s latest EP Redbud , we are invited to connect...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 24, 2024
PETER STERLING, Heaven Sent
It’s happened a few times previously and I pray it does again – a personal spiritual phenomenon I call “The Angel Effect,” where, almost...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 22, 2024
MICHELLE QURESHI, Shimmer and Lineage
In just a few words to a question about the different sonic approaches she takes on the multitude of acclaimed, award winning albums and...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 22, 2024
SHAMBHU, Reflections
As I listen to Shambhu’s latest simply but masterfully produced album Reflections and immerse in its melodically intricate, transcendent...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 16, 2024
CASHAVELLY, Meditation Through Gunfire
Sometimes when an album is so epic, emotionally overwhelming and thematically expansive, there’s there are those one or two phrases which...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 16, 2024
GITKIN, Golden Age
The unique tour schedule celebrating the release of trippy, offbeat and wildly psychedelic global fusion guitarist Gitkin’s fourth album...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 13, 2024
VISIONS JAZZ ENSEMBLE Featuring SAM BUTLER and GARRET FASIG, Across The Field
Hoosiers in the house! With a dynamic but totally no-brainer concept that will have jazz fans wondering why nobody ever (literally)...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 13, 2024
ERIC BELL, Vulnerability
One of the great young jazz “lions” currently offering adventurous hope for the future of our beloved art form, pianist Eric Bell brings...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 13, 2024
JOHN FEDCHOCK, Justifiably J.J.
Critically acclaimed veteran trombonist John Fedchock found a fascinating way to cap 30 years as a solo recording artist – with...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 12, 2024
THE JOYMAKERS, Down Where The Bluebonnets Grow
Ask most jazz folks where they might like to head if they could take a time machine back 100 years and they’d say straight for Harlem,...
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