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KENNY WASHINGTON, What's The Hurry
By calling his long awaited, warm-hearted and full of amazing graces yet often boisterous, joyful and swinging debut album What’s the...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 14, 2020


KAVEH KARANDISH, Spirit of Hope
You can feel the emotional and spiritual uplift from the first lilting notes of “Spirit of Hope,” the title track to multi-faceted...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 14, 2020


DANAE VLASSE, Poème: Songs of Life, Love and Loss
Encountering and quickly embracing Poème: Songs of Life, Love and Loss, the sweeping and majestic piano and vocal classical compendium by...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 13, 2020


RICK CUTLER, Women & Children
With an eclectic whirlwind of a resume that includes work on hit Broadway shows, an Emmy nomination for co-writing the theme to...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 13, 2020


LES NUBY, Clouded
In an early 2020 interview with his hometown outlet Create Birmingham, veteran drummer, guitarist and singer/songwriter Les Nuby...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 9, 2020


PAUL KELLY/PAUL GRABOWSKY, Please Leave Your Light On
The credits of Please Leave Your Light On, the starkly and subtlely arranged, deeply heartfelt and impactful vocal-piano collaboration by...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 8, 2020


PURDIE FABIAN OSWANSKI, Move On!
In lieu of detailed liner notes, the CD insert of Move On!, the fun-spirited yet heavy, funkadelic delight of a debut by the B-3 organ...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 8, 2020


EVENT HORIZON JAZZ QUARTET, Event Horizon
When you name your stylistically eclectic, sensually soulful yet hard swinging quartet after the boundary around a black hole, things are...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 8, 2020


SUSAN TOBOCMAN, Touch & Go
There it is, embedded in Mark Stryker’s illuminating liner notes to Susan Tobocman’s heartfelt, swinging, bossa-tinged latest album Touch...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 8, 2020


MAGGIE HERRON, Your Refrain
Life has a way of changing one’s perspective on its constant onslaught of challenging times. At the somewhat tongue and cheek start of my...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 7, 2020


BRANDEN & JAMES, Chasing Dreams
Anyone wanting to hear what angels on earth truly sound like has had an easy time of it with the explosion of classical...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 7, 2020


VICIOUS ROOSTER, "Runaway Angel"
America and the world have been through a lot of emotional upheaval since I first reviewed Vicious Rooster’s infectious, delightfully...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 7, 2020
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