MATTHEW SHELL & KENNY MCNEIL, We'll Find A Way II
After having the privilege of writing about and of course praising the stellar, hypnotic, nonstop and infectiously grooving “Jazzy Lil...
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Jonathan Widran
- May 15
MATTHEW SHELL & KENNY McNEIL, "I Want to Be Rich II"
In previous writings about the extraordinarily multi-faceted Matthew Shell’s work as an artist, composer, engineer, producer and...
Jonathan Widran
- Apr 20
MATTHEW SHELL & KENNY MCNEIL, "Jazzy Lil Jane II (Chill Afrobeat)"
In my review of Contemplation, the beautifully expressive, new age album Matthew Shell created in 2021 with pianist Vahagn Stepanyan, I...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 16, 2022
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...
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...
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