Music: Soaring Saxophones and American Gothic
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Gilberto Gil sands down old and new songs to the core with âLuminoso,â No Age provides twinkly charisma, and Joshua Redman makes the most agile record of his career.
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A growing number of contemporary musicians and techno enthusiasts have reignited interest in the Moog, which can synthesize any sound imaginable.
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There's the Weird Al way of making funny music: steal a melody, add zany high-concept lyrics, and rock on.
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With bouzoukis and pipas in hand, indie rock goes global. Buzz ensues.
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Jazz is one of the great  instrumental genres, but in 2007, albums recorded by singers,  or featuring impressive lineups of guest vocalists, commanded  the charts.
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Emily Newsomâs perpetual-motion harp playing provides settings that encompass madrigals, Appalachian ballads and African griot songs, and her voice can sound piercing or intimate.
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Dan Oestreicher is a 23-year-old saxophone player, not long out of college, who has lived with friends since Hurricane Katrina&#039;s floodwater drove him from his apartment. A new housing program aims to turn him into a homeowner.
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Some instrument makers and researchers are using science to deconstruct the vibrations and waves at work to create the distinctive sounds of violins and guitars.
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Armed with stacks of vinyl, high-speed Internet and a shared conviction, a far-flung contingent of musicians and aficionados is bringing lost jazz back using the WebÃÂs electronic airwaves.
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With a solid following in Europe and a new album, Damian Draghici has managed to make a career playing an obscure and sometimes ridiculed instrument.
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Rodrigo y Gabriela fuse Latin-flavored acoustic guitar with heavy metal anthems. (Think Mariachi and Metallica.)
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The roots of rock 'n' roll -- and even the bloodline of geekdom and the home electronics explosion -- can be traced to a little room in Memphis, Tennessee. Michelle Delio reveals the secrets of Sun Studio's signature sounds.
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I'm not the kind of guy to toot my own horn, but I believe most of you understand, sympathize and approve of tooting my country's horn. While us Finns have plenty of things to be proud of - Nokia, sauna, and I'm sure there's other stuff - our music is a wide-open door into the dark well of the Finnish psyche, a nation with one of the highest suicide rates in the world and 24 hours of darkness in the winter. With that marketing speech out of the way, behold how hard we rock, how fast and loud we are below the fold.
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ItÂs not often that the background score of a film makes a lasting impact on music listeners of this country.
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%?%?&amp;¬the belfry would have been one thing, but Dracula had to contend with the playful ghost of David Belasco haunting his own Broadway house Aug. 19 when the bloodsucker swooped back to town, with the soaring music of Frank Wildhorn beneath his wings.
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The philharmonicâs program, âPainters of Sound,â brought together John Coriglianoâs âPied Piper Fantasyâ and Berliozâs âSymphonie Fantastique.â
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With more than 40 movie and television scores to his credit, Terence Blanchard is adept at composing the right music to fit a particular scene. But when the noted jazz trumpeter returned to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina, he couldn't imagine any music that would express the overwhelming devastation. In the most musical of American cities, he only heard the sounds of silence.