MICHAEL MOSS/ACCIDENTAL ORCHESTRA, Helix
What happens when one of the “farthest out cats” on NYC’s loft jazz scene fractures a bone tripping over a curb? When that cat is...
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Jonathan Widran
- May 3, 2018
JUNGSU CHOI TINY ORKESTER, Tschuss Jazz Era
Any bandleader bold enough to imagine, via a sonically expansive jazz playground infused with hard ensemble swing and edgy rock fusion,...
Jonathan Widran
- May 3, 2018
CATHY SEGAL-GARCIA, The Jazz Chamber
On her free-wheeling, joyfully schizophrenic 11th album The Jazz Chamber, Cathy Segal-Garcia surrounds her emotionally resonant,...
Jonathan Widran
- May 3, 2018
SUSAN KREBS CHAMBER BAND, Light Out of Darkness
Anyone soulful and spiritually intuitive enough to celebrate the season of renewal by juxtaposing a bluesy Ray Charles classic alongside...
Jonathan Widran
- May 3, 2018
JAMIE SHEW, Eyes Wide Open
Anyone who’s ever suffered a great loss – and that means all of us at some point – will find moving, inspiring and coolly swinging...
Jonathan Widran
- May 3, 2018
DAVE TULL, Texting and Driving
Who says jazz has to be super-serious all the time? Not the delightfully witty, bitingly incisive social observer/master satirist Dave...
Jonathan Widran
- May 3, 2018
JOHN PROULX, Say It
About halfway through his spirited stroll through Michael Franks’ “Scatsville,” veteran jazz vocalist John Proulx, tongue firmly in...
Jonathan Widran
- May 3, 2018
JOANNE TATHAM, The Rings of Saturn
Calling her delightfully eclectic new album The Rings of Saturn, Joanne Tatham – truly one of the L.A. jazz scene’s most engaging vocal...
Jonathan Widran
- May 2, 2018
DIANE MOSER, Birdsongs
Normally when we hear the phrase, “this one’s for the birds,” it’s got a negative connotation – but when we apply it graciously to the...
Jonathan Widran
- May 2, 2018
FRED FARELL, Distant Song
Fred Farell’s deeply soulful, spiritually uplifting and simply but magnificently produced new album Distant Song celebrates the veteran...
Jonathan Widran
- May 1, 2018
JARED GOLD, Reemergence
Recently voted the Top Rising Star on organ in an annual Downbeat poll, NYC based B-3 visionary Jared Gold fashions a dynamic through...
Jonathan Widran
- May 1, 2018
BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET, Timeline
Next year, Chris and Dan Brubeck, sons of the iconic jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, will celebrate a remarkable two decades as leaders of the...
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