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Donald Fagen: Time Out of Mind
This wasn’t the first cut on the Gaucho album to speak to me; it...
Donald Fagen: Gaucho
From the opening upbeat, we know we’re in a warm bath. That beautiful...
Donald Fagen: Through With Buzz
I couldn’t resist including this truly odd song from Pretzel Logic. It’s...
Donald Fagen: With a Gun
Steely Dan. The sound track of my 20’s. What a band. It’s really all about...
Shorter/Nascimento: From the Lonely Afternoons
When Native Dancer was first released in 1974, it was marketed as a...
Gershwin: Bess, You Is My Woman Now
If you read my final New York Times op-ed column on Tuesday, you...
Adam Guettel: How Glory Goes
It is not exactly news that Adam Guettel is a composer of immense...
Louis Armstrong performs “Black and Blue”
On March 7, 1965, Louis Armstrong was in Denmark, where he watched in horror...
Joyce Moreno
I fell in love with Joyce Moreno—musically, that is—two years ago when I...
Hal Cazalet: The Palace of Sans Souci
As a child I loved reading Oscar Wilde’s fairytales and The Happy...
“Love Me Still” performed by Bettye Lavette with Herbie Hancock
As I was passing London’s legendary Jazz venue Ronnie Scott’s the...
Dudley Moore at ‘Beyond the Fringe’
‘Witty, genius, obscene, maverick, cuddly, unique’ are just some of words that...
Adam Guettel: Daybreak
I was at the first performance of the musical Floyd Collins at Playwrights...
Earl Robinson and John Latouche: Ballad for Americans
We're featuring a week of musical theater tunes from music researcher and...
Stephen Sondheim: A Little Priest
We're featuring a week of musical theater tunes from music researcher and...