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JANGUS KANGUS, Fortune Cookie
Immensely enjoying my immersion into Fortune Cookie , Jangus Kangus’ fourth overall recording but first on a real indie label (Hand...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 12, 2025


ERIC SCHROEDER, Cat's Game
Now it’s hard for me to be fully objective about the fiery guitarist, singer, storyteller/songwriter and rumbling good troublemaker Eric...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 12, 2025


LISA SWERDLOW, Dancing Between Worlds
The last time I had the privilege of immersing into Lisa Swerdlow’s thoughtfully soulful, highly imaginative musical world for a review...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 9, 2025


MITCH TOWNE, Refuge
Though Refuge, Mitch Towne’s long awaited debut album as a leader, is named after the moody, at times fretful, furious and dynamically...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 5, 2025


MARILYN KLEINBERG featuring WILL GALISON, Let Your Heart Lead the Way
Though the cover of highly Marilyn Kleinberg’s debut album Let Your Heart Lead the Way reads, “Featuring Will Galison,” it’s significant...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 5, 2025


PATRICIO MORALES, La Tierra Canta
Truly a musical citizen of the world, Chilean born and bred acoustic classical guitarist Patricio Morales received guitar training at the...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 5, 2025


UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS JAZZ ENSEMBLE 1, Let the Good Times Roll
When UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1 tells us via the title of their stellar, high octane, spiritedly arranged album that it’s time to Let the Good...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 5, 2025


WDR BIG BAND, Bluegrass
Since the German powerhouse WDR Big Band began recording its own albums and collaborating with jazz greats in the early 80s, they’ve...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 5, 2025


ANDREW SCHOEN, Soulever
Having covered ambient new age music for several decades, I’ve found it easy to get complacent and just assume that artists who weave...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 31, 2025


LISA MICHELLE ANDERSON, Get to Somewhere
There are so many magnificent entry points into Lisa Michelle Anderson’s the Americana/folk/rock aesthetic and lyrical worldview, it’s...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 30, 2025


STEPHEN WALLACK, Open
In my 2021 review of Stephen Wallack’s stellar, multi-faceted fourth album Colors , the pianist/composer was a fresh artist on my radar,...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 30, 2025


ALUMINUM BOYS, Collected Pieces
DBA as the quirkily named Aluminum Boys, the Wisconsin bred, San Jose based singer/songwriter duo of Jared Ottmann and Bill Pence sound...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 26, 2025
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