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CORINA BARTRA, Amber Light
Richly infused with joyful bustling exotica and sultry, seductive and balmy romance, Amber Light caps famed Peruvian vocalist Corina...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 17, 2022


DOUG MACDONALD AND THE L.A. ALL-STAR OCTET
If you’re trying to find a specific album from the vast, ever-growing catalog of the brilliant veteran guitarist Doug MacDonald on the...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 17, 2022


DAVID FRANKLIN, Passings
If anything positive has come out of these past anxious two years of the pandemic in a spiritual sense, it’s that millions of us were...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 16, 2022


JORGE GARCIA, Dedicated To You
Beneath the gorgeously chaotic animated musical cover art on veteran guitarist Jorge Garcia’s dynamic and multi-faceted album Dedicated...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 15, 2022


JUAN CARLOS QUINTERO, Table for Five!
Nearly 35 years after launching his extraordinary multi-faceted career with his debut album featuring his mentor and Wrecking Crew legend...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 15, 2022


TRITONE ASYLUM, The Hideaway Sessions
The Hideaway Sessions, the second album by the stylistically diverse and wildly adventurous L.A. based jazz fusion ensemble Tritone...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 15, 2022


IRA THE TRIBUTE ALBUM by BLUE ROADS RECORDS STUDIO SESSIONS BAND
A most intriguing and innovative contributor to jazz history, Ira Sullivan was a multi-instrumentalist (sax, flute, trumpet) who played...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 15, 2022


BRETT LAIDLER, Wouldn't Be Here Without You
Tucked deep within an extensive bio that chronicles Brent Laidler’s unique array of musical accomplishments – from renowned instrument...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 15, 2022


DAVID BENOIT with THE MIDNIGHT RENDEZVOUS BIG BAND at Herb Alpert's Vibrato Grill Jazz
After 40 years as a contemporary jazz pioneer, piano great David Benoit remains committed to evolving and innovating sonically and...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 12, 2022


MICHAEL GETTEL, The View From Here
As a veteran journalist/reviewer, I’m not always inclined to insert myself into my musings about any specific project, but it’s...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 9, 2022


CARRIE BIELL, We Get Along
It’s been a way too long spell – since 2008’s When You’re Feet Hit the Stars, to be exact- since we’ve been blissfully wrapped in Carrie...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 5, 2022


DARREN RAHN, Rock the World
While truly ready to Rock the World with his wildly adventurous, intensely melodic and grooving, sonically ambitious and – perhaps most...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 30, 2022
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