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GORILLA APOCALYPSE, Blow Your Mind
The soulful breezily flowing grooves, sassy and sensual female vocals and overall loungey dreaminess of the seven exquisitely inviting...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 25, 2022


CHRISTIAN PARKER, Best Kept Secret
Listening to veteran singer/songwriter Christian Parker’s new full length release Best Kept Secret is a bit like a sweet, easy grooving...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 24, 2022


THE BIG CHEESE BAND, Everything
It only takes five ultra-witty, musically whimsical songs on The Big Cheese Band’s latest EP Everything to get sucked in big time to the...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 24, 2022


BEWARE WOLVES, Beware Wolves
The mysterious but uber-talented emerging singer/songwriter known as Beware Wolves must think very highly of his ability to engage the...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 24, 2022


BARKHOUSE, Paper & Ink
One of the more unique aspects of indie music making in the streaming era is being able to announce that an emotionally compelling,...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 24, 2022


JAN HAMMER, Seasons Pt. 2
Sometimes a certain casually written line in a review can turn out to be prescient. At the tail end of my write-up on Sketches in Jazz,...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 18, 2022


JUDY WHITMORE, Isn't It Romantic
Whether she’s swinging fancifully with some of SoCal’s top jazz musicians or inviting us to experience a deeper intimacy with her richly...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 15, 2022


SHAMBHU, Life Passage
Of all the acoustic new age artists currently calming our anxieties and uplifting our souls these days, there’s none whose fascinating...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 11, 2022


CAROL WELSMAN, Fourteen
Currently closing in on 30 years as one of jazz’s most stylistically and culturally diverse jazz singers, vocal interpreters and...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 9, 2022


CHRISTOPHER BOSCOLE, Isle of Shadows - A New Age of Classical Piano
In my enthusiastic piece on veteran pianist/composer Christopher Boscole’s exquisite, stylistically eclectic 2019 piano solo collection...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 7, 2022


HOLLAND PHILLIPS, Standing in Motion
When listening to instrumental new age music, sometimes it’s conducive to fully immersing in the artist’s journey when he/she explicitly...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 5, 2022


MASA TAKUMI, Sakura
In my review of Grammy nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist Masa Takumi’s vibrant 2020 collection Heritage, I made a handful of...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 5, 2022
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