In response to Eddie Dean’s review of Ben Yagoda’s “The B-Side” (“After the Hit Parade Had Gone,” Books, Jan. 31), the 1950s and early ’60s may have been a graveyard for composers of “sophisticated ...

All five musicians on this retrieved-from-the-vaults archival release were at various times alumni of bands or recordings directed by British veteran jazz composer Mike Westbrook. Songs Without Words ...

Like its 1997 predecessor, the second volume in Windham Hill's Songs Without Words solo piano series goes heavy on artists not affiliated with the label, some of whom are not even pianists by trade.

Roy Hargrove has spent the past few years concentrating so much on his funk band, The RH Factor, that many fans had begun to wonder whether he'd abandoned jazz altogether. Nothing Serious is ...

Bassist Dan Dean's original plan for this project was the hiring of sixteen string players to join him in the studio to record a set for solo bass with string orchestra: Vivaldi's Concerto For Lute ...

Funny thing, and I know I can't be alone here: Although I often find myself forgetting simple things like why I walked into a room or how to multiply fractions (oh, who am I kidding, my entire memory ...

Pianist Jeremy Denk plays two of Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words": Op. 38, No. 2 in C minor and the "Spinning Song," Op. 67, No. 4 in C major. He gave the performance in NPR's Studio 4A. 5:00 ...

She had recently abandoned a planned career in social work, soon after finding jazz -- the moment of discovery when "suddenly, everything made sense". That was when she relocated to the US and created ...