DUO VIOLAO +1, Historia Do Choro
You don’t have to fully immerse in knowledge of the vibrant, sensual, polyrhythmic treasures of the Historia Do Choro to appreciate this...
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Jonathan Widran
Feb 20, 2019
GREGOR HUEBNER, El Violin Latino, Vol. 3: Los Sonadores
The third album in German born violinist/composer Gregor Huebner’s El Violin Latino series is also the most socially and politically...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 31, 2019
JAMES ASHER/ARTHUR HULL, On the Good Foot
On the Good Foot, an extraordinary, rhythmically eclectic and sonically expansive two EP set by longtime collaborators and drum circle...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 15, 2019
PABLO ASLAN, Contrabajo
One of the leading figures in traditional and contemporary tango, renowned Argentine born bassist Pablo Aslan – a Grammy and Latin Grammy...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 13, 2019
CAROL ALBERT, "Femme Flight"
One of contemporary jazz’s true breakaway artists of 2018 with three consecutive Billboard charting hits, keyboardist/composer Carol...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 10, 2019
MAGELA HERRERA, Explicaciones
“Explicaciones,” the title track to Magela Herrera’s jazzily exotic debut album, begins with a haunting, hypnotic percussion and flute...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 22, 2018
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....
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...
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