Reads tagged with “music”

How to Listen to Music: A Vintage Guide to the 7 Essential Skills

“Respond esthetically to all sounds, from the hum of the refrigerator motor or the paddling of oars on a lake, to the tones of a cello or muted trumpet.”

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William Gottlieb’s Beautiful Vintage Photographs of Jazz Legends, from Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong

Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gilespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, and Mister, Billie Holiday’s dog, too.

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From Philip Glass to Patti Smith, How 1970s New York Shaped Music for Decades to Come

On “people taking the lousy hands they’d been dealt and dreaming them into music of great consequence.”

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The Solar System Set to Music: A Near-Perpetual Homage to Bach

532.25 septendecillion years of fugue, or what Pluto has to do with the longest palindrome in existence.

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John Lennon’s Handwritten To-Do List

What a broken bathroom hook has to do with Norwegian ethnography and the cable guy.

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Why Creativity Necessitates Eclecticism: Nick Cave’s Influences and Inspirations

What Dostoevsky has to do with the hunchback of Notre Dame, Muhammad Ali, and dandelions.

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How Iconic Album Cover Illustrator R. Crumb Brought Comics to Music

What Janis Joplin has to do with rediscovering yesteryear’s forgotten masters.

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Guitar Zero: A Neuroscientist Debunks the Myth of “Music Instinct” and Learns to Play

On nature, nurture, and the neural pathways of possibility.

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The 11 Best Photography Books of 2011

What the world’s last living nomads have to do with Victorian strongwomen, tweed, and the unseen Beatles.

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We Love You, Beatles: Vintage Children’s Illustration Circa 1971

Can’t buy me love, but you can buy me this vintage treasure.

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Reads tagged with “music”

“Respond esthetically to all sounds, from the hum of the refrigerator motor or the paddling of oars on a lake, to the tones of a cello or muted trumpet.”

Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gilespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, and Mister, Billie Holiday’s dog, too.

On “people taking the lousy hands they’d been dealt and dreaming them into music of great consequence.”

532.25 septendecillion years of fugue, or what Pluto has to do with the longest palindrome in existence.

What a broken bathroom hook has to do with Norwegian ethnography and the cable guy.

What Dostoevsky has to do with the hunchback of Notre Dame, Muhammad Ali, and dandelions.

What Janis Joplin has to do with rediscovering yesteryear’s forgotten masters.

On nature, nurture, and the neural pathways of possibility.

What the world’s last living nomads have to do with Victorian strongwomen, tweed, and the unseen Beatles.

Can’t buy me love, but you can buy me this vintage treasure.

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