EDUARDO, Cruising A Melody
Not since David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (and Peter Schilling’s later rejoinder “Major Tom”) and Elton John’s “Rocket Man” has a rock...
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Jonathan Widran
Sep 7, 2023
ROBERT LaROCHE, Forevermore
Several decades after the original heyday of power-pop sensations The Sighs and their breakthrough album What Goes On, it’s amazing to...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 5, 2023
NATHALIE BONIN, Aspirations
On a purely musical level, perhaps the most dynamic and inspiring aspect of Nathalie Bonin’s exquisitely composed, arranged and performed...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 4, 2023
HANNAH GILL, Everybody Loves a Lover
The hip, colorful and retro green-tinted packaging of Hannah Gill’s full length debut album Everybody Loves a Lover indicates that the 11...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 4, 2023
THE NEW WONDERS
A hundred years later, the culture, music and enduring mystique of the Roaring Twenties still hold a deep fascination for those who care...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 4, 2023
AUDREY SILVER, Oklahoma
Audrey Silver’s magnificently arranged, thoughtfully and beautifully crafted homage to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s iconic musical Oklahoma...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 4, 2023
THE JIM SELF & JOHN CHIODINI QUINTET
There’s that fascinating instrument with the wild hybrid name again – FLUBA! A super low bass toned tuba sized flugelhorn designed by...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 4, 2023
MASUMI ORMANDY, Beyond The Sea
To fully understand just why Masumi Ormandy’s triumphant jazz career at the ripe young age of 84 (culminating in her exquisitely arranged...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 4, 2023
THE BIX CENTENNIAL ALL-STARS, Celebrating Bix!
Considered one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke only lived 28 years, but his legacy and...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 2, 2023
MATT ROLLINGS TRIO, The Valentine Sessions
Even if there were no grand comeback story attached to the Matt Rollings Trio’s eminently engaging, sweetly mellifluous yet often...
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