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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
Oct 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 30, 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
May 26, 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
Feb 15, 2022


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 26, 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
Sep 2, 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
Jun 25, 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 9, 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
Mar 2, 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...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 23, 2021


DIEGO BALIARDO and The Gypsy Evolution, Este Ritmo
One of the world’s most acclaimed and best loved global music groups for over 30 years, The Gipsy Kings introduced millions of fans to an...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 22, 2021


JAMES ROBINSON, New Beginnings
The 12th of 13 children, Silicon Valley raised virtuoso James Robinson was blessed to have the guitarisma in his DNA, with six of his...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 22, 2021
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