I’m imagining you reading this, or maybe having it read to you, or both. And I imagine you as a playful soul, always open to the possibility of even a bigger playground, even more amazing things to ...

It seems at times as if the world is filled to the brim with technically adept young jazz players—musicians whose speed and dexterity earn immediate respect. But technique is not all there is. Indeed, ...

Midway through Playground, oceanographer Evelyne (Evie) Beaulieu dives off Truk Atoll in the central Pacific in order to photograph the debris of a sunken World War II ship. Hundreds of feet ...

Musicians are often looked at in terms of their influences, mentors and roots, as if those things constitute some homeopathic magic. Though they don't, they provide convenient markers to use in ...