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SAUL DAUTCH, Music for the People
The thousands of passersby in Washington Square Park catching wind of Saul Dautch when he busked there to keep his chops up during the...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


Anaïs Reno, Lady of the Lavender Mist
If there’s a drawback to being an accomplished, award-winning jazz singer by one’s mid-teens like the transcendent, emotionally...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


JENNIFER LEE and THE EVER-EXPANDING UNIVERSE, Glimpse
The official branding story goes that versatile jazz vocalist and songwriter Jennifer Lee changed her artist name to include “the...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


MELTEM EGE, Solitude
Truly a musical citizen of the world who has performed on five continents, Meltem Ege brings some fascinating cross-cultural life...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


MIKE THOMPSON, 6th Avenue
Only four years after graduating from Berklee College of Music, composer, arranger and producer Mike Thompson lays an incredible...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


TERRY WALDO & THE GOTHAM CITY BAND, Treasury Volume 2
It’s always a pleasure to re-experience the ragtime era via the great roster of artists on retro minded Turtle Bay Records, and veteran...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


MARINA PACOWSKI, New Jazz Standards Volume 7
When I had the privilege of immersing in Inner Urge , the stellar 2023 debut album by French born song stylist Marina Pacowski, the big...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


AJII and JORDAN ANTHONY, "Cherry"
While we viewers at home get to see the incredible results of the contestants’ hard work every season on American Idol, the show only...
Jonathan Widran
May 29, 2025


ANN LICATER, "Sky Dreaming"
Whether Ann Licater is celebrating the natural wonders and healing splendors of sacred planet earth or finding subtle soothing joy and...
Jonathan Widran
May 28, 2025


STEVE GREGORY, Frolic
It’s the dilemma many busy musicians face – the more in demand they are for session and touring work by high profile, high paying...
Jonathan Widran
May 25, 2025


NUKE THE SOUP, Dancing on the Edge
If today’s technological advancements in animation had existed when the Beach Boys were conquering the world with the SoCal lifestyle in...
Jonathan Widran
May 25, 2025


JOE MARCINEK BAND, The Groove Session (with Jesus Molina)
Since the Joe Marcinek Band’s alternately spectacularly sensitive and furiously funky The Groove Session , their sixth album of the...
Jonathan Widran
May 25, 2025
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