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McCLENTY HUNTER, JR., The Groove Hunter
After keeping the scene hopping as one of NYC’s most inventive drummers for a decade, McClenty Hunter. Jr – perhaps best known for his...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


MICHAEL MOSS/ACCIDENTAL ORCHESTRA, Helix
What happens when one of the “farthest out cats” on NYC’s loft jazz scene fractures a bone tripping over a curb? When that cat is...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


JUNGSU CHOI TINY ORKESTER, Tschuss Jazz Era
Any bandleader bold enough to imagine, via a sonically expansive jazz playground infused with hard ensemble swing and edgy rock fusion,...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


CATHY SEGAL-GARCIA, The Jazz Chamber
On her free-wheeling, joyfully schizophrenic 11th album The Jazz Chamber, Cathy Segal-Garcia surrounds her emotionally resonant,...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


SUSAN KREBS CHAMBER BAND, Light Out of Darkness
Anyone soulful and spiritually intuitive enough to celebrate the season of renewal by juxtaposing a bluesy Ray Charles classic alongside...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


JAMIE SHEW, Eyes Wide Open
Anyone who’s ever suffered a great loss – and that means all of us at some point – will find moving, inspiring and coolly swinging...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


DAVE TULL, Texting and Driving
Who says jazz has to be super-serious all the time? Not the delightfully witty, bitingly incisive social observer/master satirist Dave...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


JOHN PROULX, Say It
About halfway through his spirited stroll through Michael Franks’ “Scatsville,” veteran jazz vocalist John Proulx, tongue firmly in...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


JOANNE TATHAM, The Rings of Saturn
Calling her delightfully eclectic new album The Rings of Saturn, Joanne Tatham – truly one of the L.A. jazz scene’s most engaging vocal...
Jonathan Widran
May 3, 2018


DIANE MOSER, Birdsongs
Normally when we hear the phrase, “this one’s for the birds,” it’s got a negative connotation – but when we apply it graciously to the...
Jonathan Widran
May 2, 2018


FRED FARELL, Distant Song
Fred Farell’s deeply soulful, spiritually uplifting and simply but magnificently produced new album Distant Song celebrates the veteran...
Jonathan Widran
May 2, 2018


JARED GOLD, Reemergence
Recently voted the Top Rising Star on organ in an annual Downbeat poll, NYC based B-3 visionary Jared Gold fashions a dynamic through...
Jonathan Widran
May 1, 2018
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