In response to Eddie Dean’s review of Ben Yagoda’s “The B-Side” (“After the Hit Parade Had Gone,” Books, Jan. 31), the 1950s and early ’60s may have been a graveyard for composers of “sophisticated ...

Like its 1997 predecessor, the second volume in Windham Hill's Songs Without Words solo piano series goes heavy on artists not affiliated with the label, some of whom are not even pianists by trade.

All five musicians on this retrieved-from-the-vaults archival release were at various times alumni of bands or recordings directed by British veteran jazz composer Mike Westbrook. Songs Without Words ...

Roy Hargrove has spent the past few years concentrating so much on his funk band, The RH Factor, that many fans had begun to wonder whether he'd abandoned jazz altogether. Nothing Serious is ...

Levit brings rare nobility and intensity to 14 of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, his individualised selection spanning a period from 1829 to 1844 Surfacing quietly as a digital download in ...

Reflecting on Felix Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, this extraordinary quartet presents a new kind of music, and possibly a whole new genre that has never before appeared in this form either in ...

Pianist Jeremy Denk plays two of Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words": Op. 38, No. 2 in C minor and the "Spinning Song," Op. 67, No. 4 in C major. He gave the performance in NPR's Studio 4A. 5:00 ...

Recorded for Harvest in 1970, Songs Without Words was only originally released in Japan. At the time, Chris Spedding was a much sought after guitarist in jazz and rock with one of the most impressive ...