JAN HAMMER, Seasons Pt. 2
Sometimes a certain casually written line in a review can turn out to be prescient. At the tail end of my write-up on Sketches in Jazz,...
THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 15
JUDY WHITMORE, Isn't It Romantic
Whether she’s swinging fancifully with some of SoCal’s top jazz musicians or inviting us to experience a deeper intimacy with her richly...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 11
SHAMBHU, Life Passage
Of all the acoustic new age artists currently calming our anxieties and uplifting our souls these days, there’s none whose fascinating...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 10
CAROL WELSMAN, Fourteen
Currently closing in on 30 years as one of jazz’s most stylistically and culturally diverse jazz singers, vocal interpreters and...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 7
CHRISTOPHER BOSCOLE, Isle of Shadows - A New Age of Classical Piano
In my enthusiastic piece on veteran pianist/composer Christopher Boscole’s exquisite, stylistically eclectic 2019 piano solo collection...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 5
HOLLAND PHILLIPS, Standing in Motion
When listening to instrumental new age music, sometimes it’s conducive to fully immersing in the artist’s journey when he/she explicitly...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 5
MASA TAKUMI, Sakura
In my review of Grammy nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist Masa Takumi’s vibrant 2020 collection Heritage, I made a handful of...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 5
THE REFUSERS, "Eat the Bugs"
You don’t really have to know who the hell Klaus Schwab is and what his World Economic Forum (WEF) does when it meets every year in...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 3
JASON SHAND, "X Factor"
An online search of Oxford Languages offers two thought provoking definitions of the term “X Factor.” First. a “noteworthy special talent...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 3
VOCE NOVA, "Ave Maria vs. Take Me To Church"
In a perfect world, soprano Natalia Tsvi and tenor Gilad Paz – the unique classical crossover vocal duo collectively known as VOCE NOVA -...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 30
DAN CHADBURN, Always
While mentions of specific tracks are generally best done later in a review, one special thing has to be mentioned about a track right in...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 30
JILL HALEY, The Forests and Shores of Acadia
From her 2010 release Glacier Soundscapes through The Winds of Badlands (2019) and The Canyons and Mesas of Bandelier (2021), no...