October 2005, 367 pages, $116.95 Bob Dylan has always enjoyed confounding audience expectations...

: "I think that in general audiences appreciate courage. Of course they appreciate musical skill and being able to present a set that makes some sort of sense, that's not all one texture or another...

Muhal Richard Abrams was my free jazz gateway drug. One of the most valued clippings in my yellowing collection dates from my arrival in New York, in 1990: the Village Voice ran a survey of jazz critics, asking for their top ten jazz albums of the 1980s...

We wept like little girls when this came through on the wire. Blue, the most extraordinary pop band of the last thirty years, used to mime on their records. Lee Ryan, you swine, you...

The 36th singalong performance of Handel's "Messiah" on Sunday had people camping out on the Kennedy Center's marble plaza overnight, some traveling a thousand or more miles to stand in line for the free performance, its 2,500-plus tickets gone in less t...

LONDON: Apple Corps, the company that manages rights to The Beatles work, has settled a royalties dispute with the record label EMI Group, the two companies said Thursday, raising hopes that Beatles recordings may soon be legally available online...

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