The pop sheen beaming off of such OMD tracks as "Red Frame/White Light" and the Velvet Underground cover "Sunday Morning" is so blinding it sometimes obscures the left-field brilliance of Dazzle Shi …

Over the last four decades, few artists racked up more record sales or broke hearts in more languages than Julio Iglesias. The man from Madrid didn't take long to light up the charts in his homeland, a …

Spanish is a language made for lovers, but Julio Iglesias can give that same suave, romantic glow to pop evergreens penned in English. He's stepping into some sizable shoes by tackling Nat "King" Cole' …

George Winston crafted a new brand of musical Americana by bringing the Great Plains vistas he absorbed in his Montana boyhood to life on the ivories, mixing in touches of everything from ragtime to ro …

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then one of George Winston's piano portraits is probably equal to an entire novel, or more likely a film, since his sound is so cinematic. For instance, the Aaro …

The thumbnail sketch of Roxy Music as glam-rock godfathers isn't inaccurate, but it leaves out a lot. Sure, their cross-dressing-rock 'n' roll-spacemen look turned plenty of heads in its day, but they' …

The Bigfoot-sized musical footprints of Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry affected almost everything that followed in rock. But even beyond their titanic influence, Ferry & co. will be remembered best for wha …

Right here in the Basics, you have a microcosm of Donovan's career, from his Dylan/Guthrie phase ("Colours," "Catch the Wind") to his kandy-kolored-tangerine-flake phase ("Atlantis," Hurdy Gurdy Man"). …

The godfather of jazz, both as composer and bandleader, began his half-century at the apex of popular music in Washington, D.C. before settling in New York in the mid-'20s. Here, his mastery of the "ju …