Photo: Laura Leif and Amber Phelps Bondaroff My latest addiction is “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” Nick Hornby’s column for The Believer....

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I was setting up for some musical demonstrations I was to present for a Music Matters evening at the ListenUp! store in Boulder, Colorado, in May...

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Fred Hersch's new double-disc album (on the Palmetto label) might be called Alive at the Vanguard, instead of the customary Live at . . . , for...

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Jarrett, Garbarek, Danielsson, Christensen: Sleeper Keith Jarrett, piano, percussion; Jan Garbarek, tenor & soprano saxophone, flute, percussion;...

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Photo: Mercury Pictures: Chris Fitzgerald Madrigal's chief executive officer is known for working well into the night, but that's been...

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For audiophiles, the acoustic of the Bayreuth Festspielhause in Germany, home of the annual festival of Richard Wagner's operas, vies with Amsterdam's...

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Logitech and Ultimate Ears have some big surprises in store for Fall 2012, and if you are in the New York City area, you could be one of the first...

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"We tried to do some work between the legs of . . . "Ummmm . . . that sounds weird." Rock musicians—do they ever think about anything but...

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I've never written a love story before, but then, there's always a first time. This romance concerns the stunningly anthropomorhic Jadis Eurythmie...

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A true story: I got tagged for doing a howling 90mph on the way back to New York on the Jersey Turnpike late one night and got off with a warning....

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I'm a great fan of the musical theater: musicals, operetta, and opera, more-or-less in that order. A typical summer vacation for my wife and me involves...

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The Jadis Eurythmie speakers ($37,000/pair) arrived in a multitude of oversized boxes. Importer Northstar Leading the Way's Frank Garbie dragged...

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