As a music journalist I admit that sometimes it does feel as if nothing could surprise me anymore. I receive music submissions often, and...

Intimacy in music is often missed these days. True, heart-opening, soul-caressing intimacy - the one that can't stand the sight of a...

Sometimes it just happens. You have plans, you think you know what to expect next, you get comfortable in your own battle-facing...

To review an album recorded by Paulinho Garcia is to be invited into an entire Universe of fragility and beauty. I knew this when I...

There is a somewhat still virgin musical territory that rests its innocent heart where classical music ends and jazz commences. Many have...

Virtuosity is a beautiful thing. One would somehow like to believe that anybody can learn how to play any given instrument with delicate,...

The world today is in big trouble. We could possibly think that we would have already learned the lesson and opted for togetherness by...

It is almost inevitable for most people to think of Billie Holiday as a wounded human being who suffered, struggled and eased her pain...

If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about...