GITIT SHOVAL, Connected
Released late in a year in which our individual and collective feeling of connection to other people and especially loved ones has been...
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Jonathan Widran
Dec 30, 2020
CATHY SEGAL-GARCIA, "Get Together/Can't Find My Way Home"
Continuing on her artful, imaginative and uber-adventurous roll of capturing the tightrope of intense anxiety and cautious hope that...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 28, 2020
SHUNIA, Shunia
In June 2020, the calming and soul-stirring music of the sonically fascinating vocal duo Shunia entered my consciousness by way of the...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 20, 2020
LARRY NEWCOMB QUARTET, Love, Dad
There are two key takeaways from the empowering, hard swinging and deeply bluesy experience of listening to Love, Dad, the third album by...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 20, 2020
THE JUSTIN ROTHBERG GROUP, Hurricane Mouse
Not sure exactly what a Hurricane Mouse is – except for the kick-ass funk/rock/jazz slam jam opening The Justin Rothberg Group’s third...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 20, 2020
THE GRASSO-RAVITA JAZZ ENSEMBLE, Jagged Spaces
Who says all the best, boldest and most badass new jazz groups come from NYC? Just when our tired spirits and hopeful ears are in...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 16, 2020
DEVON, Sitting Up Straight
Though her sound and songwriting acumen has evolved since ultra-indie, super hipster singer/songwriter Devon dropped her critically...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 14, 2020
DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS, The Greatest Hits of Christmas 2020
Not that our sense of what qualifies as “normal” will ever quite be the same after this, but in a normal year, a review of the annual...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 13, 2020
ROBERT PRESTER & ADRIANA SAMARGIA, First Snow
Like the fresh, glistening grace of the long awaited initial flurries of the year, renowned classical and jazz pianist Robert Prester and...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 13, 2020
CATHY SEGAL-GARCIA, "Sermonette"
Considering how prolific and inventive Cathy Segal-Garcia has been these past few years, there are not a whole lot more superlatives I...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 12, 2020
EVAN TROOP, The Next Chapter
The promotional materials for Evan Troop’s second EP The Next Chapter inform us of some cool background and character defining tidbits –...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 7, 2020
MARTY ELKINS/MIKE RICHMOND, 'Tis Autumn
In my review of veteran NYC vocalist Marty Elkins splendid collection Fat Daddy, I mentioned that the term “re-imagining” was too...
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