Usually, it’s the creative visionaries in the new age and ambient arena who take the mantle of musical exploration of the universe and...

Though the wildly inventive, intuitively and conversationally dynamic – and oft-times, delightfully grooving and funky – Tarmu Jazz...

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Veteran guitarist Doug MacDonald is so prolific, his bold, colorful arrangements and precise, fluid melodic lines so adaptable to so many...

One of the most prolific and eclectic contemporary jazz guitarists working today, Dave Stryker has been performing and recording with his...

There comes a time in every local jazz legend’s career when the long-held confines can no longer hold his or her burgeoning creative...

While even Wikipedia notes that “the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature” before all...

Though Roy McGrath has been living, performing and serving in all sorts of behind-the-scenes capacities in Chicago for nearly a decade,...

With the release of his dynamics-filled, alternately fiery and sensual/soulful, stylistically eclectic album Woods, Carlos Jimenez marks...

Listening to the fascinating eclectic mix of dreamy, ambient spiritual minded new age instrumentals and romantic, anthemic indie pop...

The fact that Maggie Herron opens her musically eclectic and adventurous, lyrically poignant, insightful and cathartic album My Story in...

When an extraordinary, deeply soulful and dynamically versatile young talent like Minnesota based singer/songwriter Nolen Sellwood burst...