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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


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


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


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 30


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 29


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


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


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


JERRY BURTON, Great American Soul Book, Reimagined, Vol. 1
After your ears pop with grace, joy and gratitude, upon first listen to the alternately warm and inviting and boisterous and barn burning...
Jonathan Widran
May 25


JENNIFER HILL, Love Bomb
Though Jennifer Hill’s decision to title her exquisitely eclectic, highly anticipated debut album Love Bomb  implies a sense of emotional...
Jonathan Widran
May 25


COLLABORATIONS, Songs from the Heart Vol. 1
Back in the 60’s and 70’s, a loose collective of highly respected, then-anonymous Los Angeles session musicians known as The Wrecking...
Jonathan Widran
May 25


JIM KIMO WEST & DAVID VITO GREGOLI, "Lake Crescent"
When it comes to artists creating purely instrumental music without vocals, titles are sometimes pretty or poetic afterthoughts rather...
Jonathan Widran
May 23
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