AMBER NICHOLSON, Far Away Dreaming
Conventional love song wisdom might tell us that the five gloriously relatable and soulful, pop, jazz, blues and country inflected tunes...
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THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
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Jonathan Widran
- Feb 15
MATTHEW J VAN HOWE, Cognitive Concrete
Whether he’s listening to Beethoven or Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, a musical compadre of mine always says, “To catchy every intricate...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 13
LOUIS SICILIANO, Ancient Cosmic Truth
Usually, it’s the creative visionaries in the new age and ambient arena who take the mantle of musical exploration of the universe and...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 13
ELDAD TARMU, Tarmu Jazz Quartet
Though the wildly inventive, intuitively and conversationally dynamic – and oft-times, delightfully grooving and funky – Tarmu Jazz...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 12
MARIA JACOBS, Back at the Bop Stop
While it’s a most unusual practice for a renowned jazz artist to follow one live album with a second with no studio dates in between, the...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 12
DOUG MACDONALD, Big Band Extravaganza
Veteran guitarist Doug MacDonald is so prolific, his bold, colorful arrangements and precise, fluid melodic lines so adaptable to so many...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 12
THE DAVE STRYKER TRIO, Prime
One of the most prolific and eclectic contemporary jazz guitarists working today, Dave Stryker has been performing and recording with his...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 12
SKIP GRASSO, Becoming
There comes a time in every local jazz legend’s career when the long-held confines can no longer hold his or her burgeoning creative...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 12
MICHAEL RABINOWITZ, Next Chapter
While even Wikipedia notes that “the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature” before all...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 12
ROY McGRATH, Menjunje
Though Roy McGrath has been living, performing and serving in all sorts of behind-the-scenes capacities in Chicago for nearly a decade,...
Jonathan Widran
- Jan 30
CARLOS JIMENEZ, Woods
With the release of his dynamics-filled, alternately fiery and sensual/soulful, stylistically eclectic album Woods, Carlos Jimenez marks...
Jonathan Widran
- Jan 28
PETER DAY, Live in the Peace
Listening to the fascinating eclectic mix of dreamy, ambient spiritual minded new age instrumentals and romantic, anthemic indie pop...
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