MATTHEW SQUIRES and the LEARNING DISORDERS, The Electric River
Masters of the musically and lyrically unpredictable, offbeat and quirky yet wildly insightful raw indie rock, the Austin based unit...
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Jonathan Widran
Oct 31, 2022
ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER, Slow Flow & Dancer
Now well into his incredible fifth decade as a recording artist, Grammy winning Swiss electroacoustic harpist Andreas Vollenweider has...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 30, 2022
RUSS HEWITT, Chasing Horizons
Some fourteen years after raving enthusiastically about Russ Hewitt’s stellar debut album Bajo del Sol, it’s delightful to realize via...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 26, 2022
RICHARD WILLIAMS, Hollywood Christmas
A wildly talented composer and multi-instrumentalist who’s made his greatest impact in the competitive and lucrative gaming market,...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 26, 2022
PAUL MARINARO, Not Quite Yet
While engaging collections of expertly arranged standards are somewhat of a common go-to for emerging jazz artists, on occasion we’ll be...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 26, 2022
ROBERTA DONNAY, BLOSSOM-ing
For all its obvious shortcomings when it comes to fair artist compensation, Spotify offers a tantalizing opportunity to create a unique...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 26, 2022
JOHN DAVERSA & TAL COHEN, The Art of Duo Volume One
John Daversa and Tal Cohen’s fun and freewheeling, expansively artistic and powerfully intuitive and conversational collection The Art of...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 20, 2022
CHRIS STANDRING, Silent Night
In 2011, flush with the recent critical acclaim for and commercial success of his jazz trio and orchestra driven album Blue Bolero and...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 19, 2022
LIQUID MIND XIV: Simplicity
In my comprehensive review of Liquid Mind: Musical Healthare, a compilation of the some of the more recent representative recordings in...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 18, 2022
STEPHEN WALLACK, Wondering
In my review of Stephen Wallack’s masterful 2021 album Colors, I mentioned one of the more interesting musical influences in his life –...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 17, 2022
ED BAZEL, The London Sessions: Reflections from Studio 2
All us kids who took piano lessons can relate to at least the beginning of Ed Bazel’s extraordinary musical journey, those many years...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 17, 2022
ALLEN AUSTIN-BISHOP, Christmas
Though he launched his recording career putting his fascinating trademark sandpaper and soul vocal spin and fanciful arrangements on...
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