RANDY WEINSTEIN, Hamonimonk
From Reflections by saxophonist Steve Lacy (1958) to Monk: fifteen piano reflections by Stefano Travaglini (2020), Thelonious Monk’s...
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Jonathan Widran
- Aug 8
PAULA MAYA, Rio De Janeiro
One of the great perks of living the streaming era is the opportunity to chart an artist’s evolution from their earliest recordings to...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 6
ALEXIS COLE AND THE TAIPEI JAZZ ORCHESTRA, Jazz Republic: Taiwan, The United States and the Freedom of Swing
Before we get into the incredible, internationally cooperative, peacemaking manner in which veteran vocalist Alexis Cole has chosen to...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 6
BEVAN MANSON Featuring TIERNEY SUTTON, Talking to Trees
While it’s usually artists in the new age realm who are inclined to create projects celebrating nature and the importance of conserving...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 6
MELINDA ROSE & FRENCHY ROMERO, I'm On My Way
Having first bonded at a community jam session in their native Miami that was open to jazz musicians of all ages, vocalist Melinda Rose...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 6
ZACHARY BARTHOLOMEW, Balancing Act
Perhaps the easiest way for a veteran and highly acclaimed live jazz performer and educator to make his mark as a solo artist would be to...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 4
SUZANNE PITTSON, Emerge Dancing
The story behind Emerge Dancing, veteran jazz vocalist Suzanne Pittson’s first album in 14 years, is a tearjerking tale of creative...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 3
DAVID ARKENSTONE, Quest for the Runestone
Over 35 years and 80+ albums into one of new age, electronic and ambient music’s most storied and inspirational careers, David Arkenstone...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 24
HEART OF PINE, Southern Soul Revival
Something exciting is happening down South – Athens, GA to be exact – and we can’t say that Steven Bagwell and Travis Richardson, the...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 24
JASON MONTERO, Inside Out
Among the dynamic marketing hooks surrounding the engaging whirlwind of quirky, alternately sensitive and soulful and edgy, off kilter...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 18
TAYLOR KELLY, The Spins
In a perfect musical world, the utterance of the name “Taylor” would just as easily evoke the gloriously poppy, soulful, jazzy mélange,...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 17
ALEX MARTIN, Appalachian Fall: The Song-Poems of Michael Martin
More than simply a hard-hitting emotional homage to the power of poetry via a fresh expression of acoustic folk-tinged music, veteran...
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