“As you develop your listening skills, [answer this question]: Are the musicians playing the notes with precision, almost as if they are reading music from some Platonic ideal score, or are they ...

Gioia argues that new music comes from disruptors, that “innovation in music requires an outsider’s stance,” that “insiders might very well run the wheels of commerce, but they [..] rely on outsiders ...

Ted Gioia made a $6 million error when he cashed in his Apple stock about 25 years ago. The jazz critic bought 300 shares in the 1980s that would have been worth $6.4 ...

The rhythm within -- The incantation -- Native American healing songs -- The shaman -- Orpheus the shaman -- The harmony of the spheres -- Music and the medical practitioner -- Music therapy -- From ...

I listen to all styles of music nowadays, but back when David Byrne and the Talking Heads arrived on the scene, I was a jazz snob. I lived in a ...

Why work songs? -- The hunter -- The cultivator -- The herder -- Thread and cloth -- The new rhythms of work -- Sea and shore -- The lumberjack -- Take this hammer! -- The cowboy -- The miner -- The ...