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...
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THE JW VIBE
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Jonathan Widran
- Jan 15
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 12
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
- Dec 29, 2022
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 28, 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 27, 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 19, 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 1, 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
- Nov 30, 2022
MATHIEU SOUCY, Recollecting
Two years after launching his recording career with two indie singles as head of a trio, multi-talented Montreal based composer/guitarist...
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