Sometimes it's good to get away from the script. For your next museum visit, instead of strapping on a headset with some spoken-word guide telling you what to think, bring along a pair of headphones an …

Nothing helps bring out the beauty in abstraction like the open-ended expressions of bebop. The elegant but action-packed intertwining lines of Oscar Peterson and Benny Green's piano summit-meeting "Ji …

Erik Satie has long been a favorite for his introspective and subdued melodies. Pascal RogT's thoughtful interpretation of "3 GymnopTdies: No. 1" ranks up there with Aldo Ciccolini's classic analog ver …

Getting a song to stick in the memories of moppets isn't rocket science - kids love to let their lungs loose and holler, howl, or whatever else their little pipes can muster. All you have to do to get  …

If you're aiming to get kids involved in music, sometimes the best way is to sing straight to them. Nineties alt-folk "it girl" Lisa Loeb joins Elizabeth Mitchell to invite young listeners along for a  …

Folk, rock, pop, country - every type of music's got its own kind of soul, so it's as natural as moonlight on Memphis for the greatest R&B singers to tap into that deep-down human spirit that powers ju …

Country music and soul have always been kissin' cousins - two sides of the same musical coin. That's why so many soul stirrers have thrown some honky-tonk tunes onto their sonic skillet, with sweet, sa …

Like Smokey said, the Quiet Storm is "a power source of tender force." And he should know. So let it blow through your life and carry the cares and tensions of your day far away, until all that's left  …

Sink a little deeper into a warm bath filled with easy-rolling waves of sonic smoothness, and just drift away into the dreamy, gentle grooves. British neo-soul sisters Floetry let their love tumble dow …