JOHN DAVERSA & TAL COHEN, The Art of Duo Volume One
John Daversa and Tal Cohen’s fun and freewheeling, expansively artistic and powerfully intuitive and conversational collection The Art of...
THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 20
CHRIS STANDRING, Silent Night
In 2011, flush with the recent critical acclaim for and commercial success of his jazz trio and orchestra driven album Blue Bolero and...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 19
LIQUID MIND XIV: Simplicity
In my comprehensive review of Liquid Mind: Musical Healthare, a compilation of the some of the more recent representative recordings in...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 18
STEPHEN WALLACK, Wondering
In my review of Stephen Wallack’s masterful 2021 album Colors, I mentioned one of the more interesting musical influences in his life –...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17
ED BAZEL, The London Sessions: Reflections from Studio 2
All us kids who took piano lessons can relate to at least the beginning of Ed Bazel’s extraordinary musical journey, those many years...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17
ALLEN AUSTIN-BISHOP, Christmas
Though he launched his recording career putting his fascinating trademark sandpaper and soul vocal spin and fanciful arrangements on...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 12
CLIFF KORMAN TRIO, Brasilified
It’s delightfully ironic that Cliff Korman is only now getting around to calling a project Brasilified. The NYC born pianist’s majestic...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 11
COUNT PARIAH, Hymns For Heathens
Though Hymns for Heathens, the aggressive, blistering, utterly cathartic, action packed and provocatively titled second EP from Count...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 11
DAPHNE PARKER POWELL, The Starter Wife
On her sixth album, but very importantly, her first as Daphne Parker Powell after a decade dba Daphne Lee Martin, the intensely...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 1
DIVER THROUGH, All Nighter
When’s the last time you pulled an All Nighter? While the term often brings out a sometimes painful, struggling connotion – like fighting...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 27
KURT REIMAN, A Glimpse of Grace
Sometimes emerging musical artists like to downplay their so called “day jobs,” and their history in other industries, as if they are not...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 27
ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE, Songs of Leonard Cohen Live
In 2018, Toronto’s famed Art of Time Ensemble musical collective – under the musical direction of founder, pianist and album producer...