Los Angeles-based Soul Artist Jackson Breit Redefines Modern Music with Infectious Groove "Hit Man" The new single from Los Angeles-based solo artist Jackson Breit, "Hit Man," is making a lot of buzz. It's a happy soul song nicely showing how his music has changed over the years. The song's main idea is philosophical choices or all the different lives someone could have had if things had been...

Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...