What makes a great tune? What is it about melodies that lodge in our heads, so that we sing along to our favourite tracks (but not others we know just as well but don’t like as much) or find ourselves ...

Kenny Werner is a rare musician who is known as much for his teachings and wisdom as for his piano playing and composing. He has played with Joe Lovano, Betty Buckley, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmeyer, Toots ...

Harmony is created when many melodies happen at once, he says, weaving a tapestry of sound that can tug at our emotions and remind us of the great thrill of what it means to be human. If you ask him ...

The Everly Brothers' close harmonies and smooth guitar licks influenced an entire generation of popular musicians. Don Everly's voice usually handled the melody, but Phil Everly gave the higher ...

Hard rock has rediscovered a secret weapon that it had forgotten to put in its arsenal: good old-fashioned melody. The heavier side of pop music has been through hyped fads and hybrids for nearly a ...

Soul Jazz's latest compilation focuses on British lovers rock, the softer, more feminine counterpart to the politicized roots reggae that soundtracked radical social and racial events in 1970s and 80s ...

Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a three-part series on the annual Christmas Tour of Homes. Four homes in West Feliciana Parish and St. Mary’s Episcopal Church will be opened to the ...