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JoJo with Emmy Meli at Roseland Theater on 03/09/2025

By CHRISTINA HALL // JoJo shared that this was a year of vulnerability and how it's a great way to find that others feel the same way and that you are not alone

Curtis Salgado on his new (and first) live recording: Coffeeshop Conversations (Not) @ Artichoke Music #435

By TOM D'ANTONI // The one and only Curtis Salgado is about to record his first live recording. He'll be doing many of his most memorable songs. "Twelve songs that are not usually in my show," he says.

The Norman Sylvester Band's 40th Anniversary at Alberta Rose Theater on 3/16/2025 - Photos

By DIANE RUSSELLL //

Melissa Aldana at the Old Church Concert Hall, March 4th, 2025-PSU Jazz Ensemble/George Colligan. - Review

By MICHAEL SHOEHORN CONLEY // A master class and a concert from saxophonist Melissa Aldana. Both inspiring.

Bill Frisell's Marvelous Dream / From c. September 2020 / Audio

By TOM D'ANTONI // Guitarist-composer Bill Frisell visited me in the KMHD studio a few years before I (c.20I7) recorded this recounting of a dream he told me about that afternoon. A marvelous dream which changed his life. There was no recording of our original conversation, so I asked him to tell the story of the dream for posterity.

Coffeeshop Conversations will return in a couple of weeks.

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