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ERIC GOLETZ, STANDARD-IZED!
How can the same musician be a NYC studio legend and first call horn player, yet also be hailed by Jazziz magazine as one of the Top 10...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 21, 2023


MARY FOSTER CONKLIN, These Precious Days
Somewhere over the course of her four critically acclaimed albums since 1998, the inimitable NYC jazz vocal stylist and premiere musical...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 21, 2023


SPENCER BREWER, Behind The Veil
For new age music enthusiasts like myself whose early passion for the genre was steeped in the beautiful inspiring fusion of acoustic and...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 15, 2023


BODHIHEART, Out of Doors: Meditations For Piano and Nature
Though still driven by the lush, spacious and delicately beautiful melodies of founding pianist Wells Hanley, Bodhiheart’s exquisite...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 12, 2023


MATT SAVAGE GROOVE EXPERIMENT, The Groove Reawakens
Having released his independent debut album Live at the Olde Mill at age nine and establishing himself as a major presence as a prolific...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 29, 2022


MARCUS JOHNSON, Quarantine Sessions
While the first year of the pandemic was stressful and anxiety filled for all of us, it was especially challenging for musicians and...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 28, 2022


MEG BOWLES, Voices from the Ethereal Forest
As veteran composer-synthesist Meg Bowles boldly ventures from her early 2022 epic album Pilgrimage to explore, on her latest recording,...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 28, 2022


PAUL WEST, Eight Palms Ranch
Emerging singer-songwriter Paul West’s earthy, down home storytelling skills, sometimes raucous, often heartfelt vocal delivery and...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 27, 2022


CURTIS NOWOSAD, CNRMXD
Though Curtis Nowosad has been a major force in The Harlem Sessions local arts collective for about a decade and released two previous...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 19, 2022


STEVE TINTWEISS SPACELIGHT BAND, Live at NYU: 1980
A still active figure specializing in super-galactic, ever-evolving and super inventive free jazz for over five decades, five string...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 1, 2022


KIRSTEN LAMBERT, From A Window To A Screen
Though From a Window to a Screen is billed as the debut album by the exquisite and sensual North Carolina based vocalist Kirsten Lambert,...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 1, 2022


MARCO PIGNATARO, Chant For Our Planet
The experience of listening to jazz is so stimulating and engaging on purely sonic and rhythmic levels, so it’s easy to overlook the...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 1, 2022
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