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Whether you’re an ’80s kid or not, “Take on Me” will transport you back to a time of big hair, bright colors, and the dawn of ...

The earliest EXAUDI commission is Shadow and Echo and Jade, a 14-minute setting of 3rd century Chinese poetry. Notes and ...

Even decades later, these songs still teach us what great music should sound like. They remind us that a perfectly placed ...

Bessie Smith’s music is a bridge across generations. Her recordings are more than musical artifacts—they’re living, breathing ...

Name a profession for which Jews are famous and there’s a good chance that AI has either changed it, revolutionized it, or ...

The delicacy of her vocal and the piano at the start of the track is explicitly communicated ... Every edge sounds precise and sharply drawn and hits you with a sharp precision. The song demands ...

“He approaches chord changes and rhythm in a way that many others just do not. He finds harmonic subtleties that escape many singers." Singer Andy Bey is less well known as a pianist, but nowadays he ...

The band and producer Andrew Loog Oldham took that idea as literally as possible, as, for four minutes, the song keeps coming to life, led by Nicky Hopkins’ baroque piano lines, and then ...

A ten-minute piece of modal jazz characterized by fairly static chord changes ... “Sortie,” begins with Walton’s rolling piano figure, which precedes the main theme played by three ...