Jonathan WidranMar 2, 2021MATTHEW SHELL, Towards New Beginnings II - Songs of Healing Perfectly meeting our anxious collective moment and desire to move past the struggles and sorrows of a year like no other, visionary...
Jonathan WidranFeb 23, 2021GREGG KARUKAS, SerenataGregg Karukas’ extraordinary success over the past 30-plus years as a #1 charting smooth jazz artist and one of the genre’s busiest...
Jonathan WidranFeb 16, 2021CONSTANCE HAUMAN, "Taking Some Steps Ahead"Last year in my (what else?) glowing/enthusiastic write up of Constance Hauman’s epic five track “2nd Wave” bonus edition of her...
Jonathan WidranJan 9, 2021NICHOLAS GUNN, Sound ConditionClosing in on three decades as one of contemporary instrumental and world music’s most prolific and stylistically expansive composers and...
Jonathan WidranDec 28, 2020SHUNIA, ShuniaIn June 2020, the calming and soul-stirring music of the sonically fascinating vocal duo Shunia entered my consciousness by way of the...
Jonathan WidranDec 6, 2020DANA CUNNINGHAM, What I Hear: A Collection of CarolsIt happens every year when Christmas rolls around. As exquisite as so much holiday music is – especially in the new age solo piano realm...
Jonathan WidranNov 18, 2020TODD MOSBY, Aerial ViewsConsidering that legendary new age guitarist and Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman and his production partner, keyboardist Tom...
Jonathan WidranNov 15, 2020CAMILLE NELSON, Acoustic ChristmasWith apologies to George Lucas, a long musical time ago in a galaxy seemingly far, far away from the present one we’re living in – August...