Music

Play it again, Sam
Some recordings of Sam Smith’s band and other groups he played with

Finding music

The attack on jazz

Thelonius Monk

Upright falldown

Jocko Henderson

Why we need a natural music movement

Music’s real problem is downgrading, not downloading

Factories of fame

Where the music went

Why you don’t have to care about Michael Jackson

Bass players

My accordion

RECORDING INDUSTRY

I can’t hear the music. . . There’s a lawyer in my ear

How the recording industry killed popular music

MUSIC & POLITICS

Louis Armstrong and the civil rights movement

Punk and protest

Music & politics: The sound of changes, the power of changes

Jazz: Cooler and cheaper than war