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Has live performance become background to the recording process? First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and ... (episode)
Today, the corner of 88th Street and West End Avenue will be named "Arturo 'Chico' O'Farrill Place" in honor of the Latin jazz bandleader and composer who died in 2001. O'Farrill's so... (episode)
Rolling Stone magazine ranks Richard Thompson as among the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. It also praises his songs as "schizophrenic and disturbingly catchy." Today, Thompson l... (episode)
The British band Coldplay has gone straight to the top of the Billboard 200 chart with its third album "X&Y;" (EMI). Some are already calling them the World's Biggest Rock Band but ot... (episode)
It's summer, which means the return of outdoor pops concerts. Los Angeles Times arts reporter Scott Timberg joins us to look at how pops have changed since Arthur Fielder took over th... (episode)
Hugh Masekela has been called the "father of African jazz," and South Africa's musical ambassador to the world. He has the credentials to back it up too: he has released over 30 album... (episode)
What do you get when you take music by Icelandic pop star Bjork and arrange it for an 18-piece jazz band? Find out as we visit with Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra, a group that performs... (episode)
It's the first day of summer and what better time to decide what music you'll be playing as you take on a road trip, head to the beach, or just momentarily escape from the everyday gr... (episode)
"Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music," is an inside look at the world of one young classical musician, where job offers get handed out in the bedroom, and cocaine is ... (episode)
Opera soprano Renée Fleming is a familiar face on the world's greatest opera stages, but on her latest CD, "Haunted Heart," she leaps to the worlds of jazz, pop, and folk. On this spe... (episode)