PAUL WEST, Eight Palms Ranch
Emerging singer-songwriter Paul West’s earthy, down home storytelling skills, sometimes raucous, often heartfelt vocal delivery and...
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THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
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Jonathan Widran
- Nov 12, 2022
MIGUEL KERTSMAN, In the Moment
A wildly adventurous, genre-busting and insanely tribal and percussive jam session, Miguel Kertsman’s perfectly titled album In the...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17, 2022
ALLEN AUSTIN-BISHOP, Christmas
Though he launched his recording career putting his fascinating trademark sandpaper and soul vocal spin and fanciful arrangements on...
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
- Aug 26, 2022
ALLEN AUSTIN-BISHOP, Why Go?
From Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley to the late Eva Cassidy, there are some artists who create such a strong, distinctive impression...
Jonathan Widran
- May 19, 2022
SAN GABRIEL 7, Under The Stars
Formed by trombonist and JPL spacecraft engineer Jim Lewis in the 2000s, the multi-faceted, high energy horn fired funk and jazz ensemble...
Jonathan Widran
- Apr 7, 2022
OPAL CANYON, Tomorrow to the Sea
Perhaps it’s a petty point in this streaming age when album art is often experienced as tiny thumbnail images, but the psychedelic...
Jonathan Widran
- Apr 5, 2022
CRASH TAYLOR, Retired Outlaw
As we listen with rapt attention to the insanely cool phrasing and storytelling couched in the soulful, blues-tinged folk/rock energies...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 24, 2022
JO HARROP, The Heart Wants
Once a session singer for the likes of Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart and Gloria Gaynor, Jo Harrop’s dusky, gorgeously sensual voice found its...
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
- Jan 11, 2022
DEAN FRIEDMAN, American Lullaby
If your skepticism about fake news has prompted you to shut down your senses and not pay attention to the sociopolitical issues of the...
Jonathan Widran
- Jan 10, 2022
FRANK VIELE, Time Is a Thief
There are three unique ways to look at Frank Viele’s first ever EP Time is a Thief. Most simplistically, it’s a simple gathering of the...
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