What are friends for? That's a question Ann Packer poses in her second novel, "Songs Without Words," a domestic drama that explores issues of loyalty between two women who grew up together in Palo ...

Like its 1997 predecessor, the second volume in Windham Hill's Songs Without Words solo piano series goes heavy on artists not affiliated with the label, some of whom are not even pianists by trade.

Misheard lyrics can be a golden moment of serendipity. Often, these mistaken lyrics, or mondegreens, are just words that slip past our attention. Despite their falsehood, these alternative listenings ...

Roy Hargrove has spent the past few years concentrating so much on his funk band, The RH Factor, that many fans had begun to wonder whether he'd abandoned jazz altogether. Nothing Serious is ...

Bassist Dan Dean's original plan for this project was the hiring of sixteen string players to join him in the studio to record a set for solo bass with string orchestra: Vivaldi's Concerto For Lute ...

In response to Eddie Dean’s review of Ben Yagoda’s “The B-Side” (“After the Hit Parade Had Gone,” Books, Jan. 31), the 1950s and early ’60s may have been a graveyard for composers of “sophisticated ...

Pianist Jeremy Denk plays two of Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words": Op. 38, No. 2 in C minor and the "Spinning Song," Op. 67, No. 4 in C major. He gave the performance in NPR's Studio 4A. 5:00 ...