SEX PEOPLE, Cal-Island: Season One
In over 25 years of writing about independent artists, there’s one word I have never encountered nor put to page or screen: polysexual....
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Jonathan Widran
- Dec 9, 2018
VALERIE ROMANOFF, Healing Music, Vol. 2
Most of the critical praise thus far and deservedly heaped on composer, multi-instrumentalist, and musical visionary Valerie Romanoff’s...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 28, 2018
CARLA CAMPOPIANO TRIO, Chicago/Buenos Aires Connections
Generally when we think of the music of Chicago, we think jazz, soul and blues – but flutist Carla Campopiano and her densely rhythm...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 28, 2018
TED PILTZECKER, Brindica
On his wondrously adventurous new album Brindica (a clever portmanteau of “Brazil, India, Africa”), jazz trumpeter turned world class...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 28, 2018
GABRIEL ESPINOSA, Nostalgias De Mi Vida
You don’t have to be familiar with bassist, composer, bandleader and top flight educator Gabriel Espinosa’s five decade decade musical...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 26, 2018
BLUESILHOUETTES, Looking for Utopia
First used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More, the term “utopia” refers to an imagined state of things in which everything is...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 26, 2018
ALEXANDRA JACKSON, Legacy & Alchemy
In musical scope, depth and vision and diversity, Legacy & Alchemy, Atlanta based musical citizen of the world Alexandra Jackson’s double...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17, 2018
LAUREN HENDERSON, Riptide
Even at a time when artists can release their material without major label machinery behind them, it’s rare for them to bless their fans...
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