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...
THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
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...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26
PHIL HURLEY, The Firebird Sessions
In the nearly 30 years since his band Gigolo Aunts hit the UK charts with “Where I Find My Heaven” from the Dumb & Dumber soundtrack,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26
JOE MARCINEK BAND,
The word “band” can mean a lot of things, from a longstanding group of cats, to a core whose surrounding players often change to the kind...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 26
IZ.M.B., Nowhere Town
Since emerging singer/songwriter IZ.M.B.’s second album, the edgy, hard hitting coming of age confessional Nowhere Town, came out at...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 25
GORILLA APOCALYPSE, Blow Your Mind
The soulful breezily flowing grooves, sassy and sensual female vocals and overall loungey dreaminess of the seven exquisitely inviting...