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ANNE PHILLIPS, Live at the Jazz Bakery
Whether intentionally or not, Conawag Records neglected to put a date on the spirited, engaging, history sweeping performance by...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 14, 2019


ROGER KELLAWAY, The Many Open Minds of Roger Kellaway
There doesn’t seem to be an official explanation why it took nine years for this epic trio concert by legendary pianist Roger Kellaway,...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 14, 2019


BERNIE MORA & TANGENT, No Agenda
As freewheeling as high octane as contemporary rock influenced jazz fusion gets these days, electric guitarist Bernie Mora and his hot...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 14, 2019


FOSTINA DIXON, Vertical Alignment
When a female horn player’s branding is nothing less than “The Saxophone Queen,” she better deliver the goods – and in the case of...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 14, 2019


LISA B, Reverberant: Poems & Music
And now for something completely different…only the multi-talented jazz singer, songwriter and poet Lisa B has been weaving the kind of...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 7, 2019


THE GROOVE PROJECT TAKES FLIGHT!
Video For The Groove Project's "To Be a Bird"... Following the ever-evolving creative muses of multi-talented, Singapore based composer,...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 3, 2019


NICHOLAS PAYTON, Relaxin' With Nick
Closing in on 25 years since his Verve debut, the madly versatile trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Payton creates something...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 28, 2019


DANIELA SOLEDADE, A Moment of You
With the release of her intimate, tenderly inviting and exquisitely produced and arranged debut album A Moment of You, emerging Brazilian...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 27, 2019


BIG BEAT, Sounds Good, Feels Good
If you’ve got your ears peeled, eager to hear what the future of jazz sounds like, a phenomenal place to start focusing is Big Beat, a...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 27, 2019


BLAIR BRYANT, Cerulean Blue
Quickly evolving from contemporary jazz reviewers’ prediction that he would be “The Next” to the breakthrough reality that he’s “The...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 18, 2019


ANDRE CAVOR, "Stay With Me Tonight"
One of the great urban jazz success stories of the past few years, Andre Cavor’s 2017 debut album Road Trip and its compelling Darren...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 17, 2019


LISA ADDEO, Listen To This
This may come as a surprise to many fans of smooth jazz, but numerous artists, promoters and publicists who work with the music that fits...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 16, 2019
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