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Music Insights: Seven Songs For Stoics

There’s a message in each of these songs that aligns closely with ideas that are more than two thousand years old.

We’ve put together a series of 3 posts to guide you toward the pleasures of listening to jazz, beginning with the Classic era.

One of the most surprising, enterprising cover albums ever made, Ben Sidran’s take on Bob Dylan is a treasure.

The second Fitz and the Tantrums album nearly equaled their stunning first, but called for wide-open minds and ears.

The characters in Springsteen’s songs do desperate things like drive all night but there’s no payoff; they see only fallen angels.

Nina Simone can make you forget that anyone else has ever recorded anything she sang.