AMJAD ALI KHAN/WU MAN, Music for Hope
Though credited as a cross-cultural duo project by Indian sarod master Amjad Ali Khan and Chinese pipa legend Wu Man, the provocatively...
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Jonathan Widran
- Nov 13, 2022
ANN LICATER, Whispers From Earth
Though the pandemic raised our collective anxiety to levels previously unheard of, it’s not solely to blame for the chaos within us and...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 30, 2022
RUSS HEWITT, Chasing Horizons
Some fourteen years after raving enthusiastically about Russ Hewitt’s stellar debut album Bajo del Sol, it’s delightful to realize via...
Jonathan Widran
- May 30, 2022
LARS TAYLOR, "Blue Sphere"
In 2019, I had the privilege of hearing and reviewing (actually, raving!) about “Sweet Onion,” the soulful and infectious debut single by...
Jonathan Widran
- May 26, 2022
KRISTINA MURRELL, Beautiful Disaster
Since Rihanna burst into pop consciousness in the mid-2000s, she’s been such a pervasive force not only in music but in our culture in...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 15, 2022
TRITONE ASYLUM, The Hideaway Sessions
The Hideaway Sessions, the second album by the stylistically diverse and wildly adventurous L.A. based jazz fusion ensemble Tritone...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26, 2021
UNPINNABLE BUTTERFLIES, Radio Ocean
Paul Simon announced his retirement from touring in 2018 and his last set of original material was five years ago. Should he decide,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 2, 2021
ANTONIO ADOLFO, Jobim Forever
An exquisitely and imaginatively arranged – not to mention high spirited and vibrantly swinging – tribute that could whimsically be...
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 25, 2021
OJOYO, Ojoyo Plays Safrojazz
For contemporary jazz fans, among the many joyous (pun very much intended) reasons to revisit (via remaster and reissue) Ojoyo Plays...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 9, 2021
REZA KHAN, Imaginary Road
A socially conscious force in global jazz fusion, Reza Khan has a long-established history of blazing fresh trails, pushing limits and...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 2, 2021
MATTHEW 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 Widran
- Feb 23, 2021
GREGG KARUKAS, Serenata
Gregg Karukas’ extraordinary success over the past 30-plus years as a #1 charting smooth jazz artist and one of the genre’s busiest...
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