Song of the Day: November 6

Song of the Day: November 6

Today’s Song of the Day selection comes from New York Times columnist Joe Nocera: When Native Dancer was first released in 1974, it was marketed as a Wayne Shorter album. That made a certain undeniable sense: an alumnus of one of Miles Davis’s greatest groups (it also...
Song of the Day:  November 5

Song of the Day: November 5

Today’s Song of the Day selection comes from New York Times columnist Joe Nocera: If you read my final New York Times op-ed column on Tuesday, you know that it drives me batty that American’s greatest opera company won’t perform America’s greatest opera. It has been...
Song of the Day: November 4

Song of the Day: November 4

Today’s Song of the Day selection comes from New York Times columnist Joe Nocera: It is not exactly news that Adam Guettel is a composer of immense talent.  The grandson of Richard Rodgers (one is required to note that when writing about Guettel), he has a...
Song of the Day: November 3

Song of the Day: November 3

Today’s Song of the Day selection comes from New York Times columnist Joe Nocera: On March 7, 1965, Louis Armstrong was in Denmark, where he watched in horror the televised images of civil rights marchers in Selma being brutally attacked by police. When Danish...
Song of the Day:  November 2

Song of the Day: November 2

We’re excited to have New York Times columnist Joe Nocera join us to curator this week’s Song of the Day. Welcome, Joe!  From Joe Nocera: I fell in love with Joyce Moreno—musically, that is—two years ago when I stumbled into Birdland one evening in search...