When there’s a special song in your life, you can easily recall hearing it for the first time. I was thinking about this recently when I heard Alabama’s “Angels Among Us.” I still remember watching ...

British pianist John Taylor has been an active player since the late 1960s with a range of partners including trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, reedman John Surman and drummer Peter Erskine. But, excluding his ...

The way Luke tells the story makes me think he knew something about music. Maybe he was a singer himself. Maybe he’d been in the choir, maybe played the lute or the drum. He knew how a song can say ...