DANA FITZSIMONS WITH BILL GRAHAM AND BRANDON BOONE, Fault Lines
No doubt, every working jazz musician and fan sidelined from the music they love during the pandemic breathed great sighs of relief once...
THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 6
SIDNEY JACOBS, If I Were Your Woman
From his first pro gig at 18 as a principal vocalist with the internationally touring Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers through his recent...
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 4
LELAND AND THE SILVER WELLS, Straight to Your Town
When I last had the pleasure of visiting the sonically, rhythmically, poetically and thematically eclectic musical headspace of Leland...
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 3
ANAYA MUSIC: How a Woman With a Post-Doctorate in Technology Became An International New Age Icon
A timeless composer and ethereal vocalist passionate about elevating the human spirit through the power of music and universal vibration,...
Jonathan Widran
- May 31
BILL ORTIZ, Points of View
While perhaps best known for his 16 years recording and touring with Santana (starting with the iconic Grammy winning album...
Jonathan Widran
- May 31
JIMMY BRANLY TRIO, The Meeting
The dynamic, inspiring story of how drummer/percussionist Jimmy Branly went from a rock and roll and obsessive learning his craft on...
Jonathan Widran
- May 31
ESTER WIESNEROVA, Blue Journal
In the era where CDs were the predominant form of music consumption, it was fairly common for artists to create artful, sometimes...
Jonathan Widran
- May 30
LARS TAYLOR, "Blue Sphere"
In 2019, I had the privilege of hearing and reviewing (actually, raving!) about “Sweet Onion,” the soulful and infectious debut single by...
Jonathan Widran
- May 26
KRISTINA MURRELL, Beautiful Disaster
Since Rihanna burst into pop consciousness in the mid-2000s, she’s been such a pervasive force not only in music but in our culture in...
Jonathan Widran
- May 24
DAVID ARKENSTONE – MUSIC INSPIRED BY MIDDLE EARTH, VOL. II
The Lord of the Rings by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien is one of the bestselling trilogies ever written; published in 1954,...
Jonathan Widran
- May 23
MEG BOWLES, Pilgrimage
Generally when we reflect on lengthy and successful careers in music, it’s customary to frontload with length of discography and...
Jonathan Widran
- May 19
SAN GABRIEL 7, Under The Stars
Formed by trombonist and JPL spacecraft engineer Jim Lewis in the 2000s, the multi-faceted, high energy horn fired funk and jazz ensemble...