CHRISTIAN PARKER, Best Kept Secret
Listening to veteran singer/songwriter Christian Parker’s new full length release Best Kept Secret is a bit like a sweet, easy grooving...
THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 24
THE BIG CHEESE BAND, Everything
It only takes five ultra-witty, musically whimsical songs on The Big Cheese Band’s latest EP Everything to get sucked in big time to the...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 24
BEWARE WOLVES, Beware Wolves
The mysterious but uber-talented emerging singer/songwriter known as Beware Wolves must think very highly of his ability to engage the...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 24
BARKHOUSE, Paper & Ink
One of the more unique aspects of indie music making in the streaming era is being able to announce that an emotionally compelling,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 22
RON BOSSE, Burning Room Only
Twenty five years after establishing himself as an emotionally impactful straight ahead guitarist with his popular ensemble Pursuance,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 18
JAN HAMMER, Seasons Pt. 2
Sometimes a certain casually written line in a review can turn out to be prescient. At the tail end of my write-up on Sketches in Jazz,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 15
JUDY WHITMORE, Isn't It Romantic
Whether she’s swinging fancifully with some of SoCal’s top jazz musicians or inviting us to experience a deeper intimacy with her richly...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 11
SHAMBHU, Life Passage
Of all the acoustic new age artists currently calming our anxieties and uplifting our souls these days, there’s none whose fascinating...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 10
CAROL WELSMAN, Fourteen
Currently closing in on 30 years as one of jazz’s most stylistically and culturally diverse jazz singers, vocal interpreters and...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 7
CHRISTOPHER BOSCOLE, Isle of Shadows - A New Age of Classical Piano
In my enthusiastic piece on veteran pianist/composer Christopher Boscole’s exquisite, stylistically eclectic 2019 piano solo collection...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 5
HOLLAND PHILLIPS, Standing in Motion
When listening to instrumental new age music, sometimes it’s conducive to fully immersing in the artist’s journey when he/she explicitly...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 5
MASA TAKUMI, Sakura
In my review of Grammy nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist Masa Takumi’s vibrant 2020 collection Heritage, I made a handful of...