Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...

A look back at 10 great songs recorded by Roberta Flack, with 'Killing Me Softly' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

BORN in Covid lockdowns, this musician’s passion project has transformed from archive to radio to now sell-out raves. The ...

Delfeayo Marsalis’s Uptown Jazz Orchestra and the majestic downhome Gillian Welch and David Rawlings spark up the weekend.

Unsurprisingly, however, the memories of his Heartbreaker days prove most illuminating, and, catching up with Guitar Player ...

It’s a Venn diagram of jazz: composed and improvised, formal and loose. And listeners never know which fragment of Okonski they’ll see at any given time ...

As metaphorical pseudonyms go, Toronto-born Tamara Lindeman’s choice of the Weather Station is a good one. Over six albums and 15 years she has tuned into the climate of global anxiety, cataloguing ...

Two years on from her last performance in Manchester – and with three number ones, a Grammy and a Brit under her belt in the meantime – pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter returned in style last night ...

The hushed, hymn-like ballad, with Flack’s graceful soprano afloat on a bed of soft strings and piano, topped the Billboard pop chart in 1972 and received ... who became a close friend and provided ...

The hushed, hymn-like ballad, with Flack’s graceful soprano afloat on a bed of soft strings and piano, topped the Billboard pop chart in 1972 and received ... who became a close friend and provided ...

A new book explores the myth that getting eight hours of shut-eye is how we should be sleeping. Its author, Dr Merijn van de Laar, tells long-term insomniac Zoë Beaty why unlocking how our ancestors s ...