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Jonathan Widran
Nov 11, 2024
BRENDA RUSSELL, "You Know What It's Like"
With the release of her latest single, the soulful and sensualromance “You Know What It’s Like,” Brenda Russell not only continues to...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 10, 2024
DAVID VITO GREGOLI & RICKY KEJ, Liquid Planet (Chillax Music)
For two decades now, Ricky Kej has been like a divine light in new age and world music, becoming a multi-genre icon by collaborating with...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 10, 2024
GEORGE HIGHFILL, Thank a Trucker
It’s a song about needing to hear comforting classic music to cope with a heartbreak, but the cleverly titled “Two Merles and a Buck” –...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 9, 2024
STEVE SIECK at Catalina Jazz Club
One of the many great aspects of the L.A. Jazz Scene’s legendary hotspot the Catalina Jazz Club is that for all the iconic artists who...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 7, 2024
DEBORAH MARTIN/CHERYL GALLAGHER, Tibet (20th Anniversary Remaster)
For veteran Spotted Peccary artists, composers, multi-instrumentalists and sonic visionaries Deborah Martin and Cheryl Gallagher, the...

Jonathan Widran
Nov 5, 2024
SLUKA, Cautionary Yell
It’s perfect that singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Sluka launches his latest Sluka album Cautionary Yell with...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 4, 2024
SAM KUSLAN, Runaway Love
Not since AJ Croce has a young singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist emerged with such an inspiring fusion of funky, traditional...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 4, 2024
l.d. levy, dnand
If the ee cummings fan club held a contest to find a jazz equivalent to the famed poet’s quirky, no caps style, they would have an...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 4, 2024
KEN SERIO QUARTET, Brooklyn Oasis
For those not familiar with drummer Ken Serio and his incredible diversity over the past three decades, Bill Milkowski’s richly...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 4, 2024
JASON BLAKE, A Confusion Sequence
While the influential tastemaker Rock Times is quoted at the top of Warr Guitar maestro Jason Blake’s bio page as saying he’s “really a...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 3, 2024
MON DAVID, DNA Continuum
At the conclusion of her thoughtful liner notes to the great, stylistically diverse and jazz vocalist and songwriter Mon David’s DNA...


Jonathan Widran
Nov 3, 2024
LAILA BIALI, Wintersongs
No relation to Wintersong , an equally brilliant though thematically different classic album by her fellow Canadian Sarah McLachlan,...
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