BROKE AND STRANDED, JAR-E FOUND SOMETHING TO BELIEVE

Jar-e’s magnetic frontman Jon Reid has played in rock bands, jazz bands and duos, but as a solo artist he’s able to flesh out his raw ideas on the fly. That’s how the horn-heavy, Latin-beat driven single “Casa Believe,” from his upcoming sophomore record ‘Chicas Malas’ (Exotic Recordings, 02/24), came to be.