SHIJIN
A true global jazz fusion ensemble, Shijin finds four famed musicians with all-star resumes from all around the globe joining forces for...
THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17, 2018
THE ODD DOGS, Beneath The Surface
Crafty band name aside, there’s nothing too odd about these dogs, who are actually a quintet of top flight L.A. jazz cats – with...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17, 2018
TRIO WoRK
Veteran L.A. bassist Ken Wild said it best about Trio Work, the tight, sparsely arranged set of standards he breezes and swings through...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17, 2018
LAUREN HENDERSON, Riptide
Even at a time when artists can release their material without major label machinery behind them, it’s rare for them to bless their fans...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 17, 2018
JOHN FEDCHOCK QUARTET, Reminiscence
The freewheeling magnificence of the music, the lengthy spirited solos by every quartet member and the delightful responses of the crowd...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 16, 2018
JOHN DAVERSA BIG BAND FEATURING DACA ARTISTS, American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom (B
An inspired, majestic and visionary project celebrating the true spirit and ideal of America during a politically embattled time,...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 16, 2018
OLIVIA FOSCHI, Fleeting Windows
In 2015, just as her career as an in-demand performer was taking off in the wake of her critically acclaimed debut album Perennial...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 15, 2018
KAZYAK, Reflection
Peter Frey, the sonic mastermind, singer and songwriter behind the wildly expansive, trippy and dreamlike but also gritty and grounded...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 15, 2018
JIM CLEMENTS, A Failure
There’s something wistfully ironic about checking out the Indiegogo page of a deeply poetic, remarkably insightful songwriter bold enough...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 11, 2018
MOSAIC MSC AT THE GRAMMY MUSEUM'S CLIVE DAVIS THEATRE IN LOS ANGELES
Over the last ten years, The Grammy Museum at L.A. Live has worked towards fulfilling its mission to educate the public about the history...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 9, 2018
PETER STERLING, Magic Kingdom
As a culture, we have been ultra-Disneyfied for so many years and via so many media that when we see an album called Magic Kingdom, our...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 6, 2018
JEFF OSTER, Reach
For more than a decade now, Jeff Oster has been one of new age music’s most transcendent anomalies, carving out a major, multiple-award...