Here are some additional tracks to accompany the reading in the October 2017 issue. Track 1 is included for the news item on jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding. Tracks 2-7 are included for the feature article “The Road to Broadway,” and were picked to serve as examples of young people singing and performing on Broadway. Tracks 8-14 are included for the …
Extended Play: May 2017
Here are some additional tracks to accompany the reading in the May 2017 issue. Track 1 is included for the lead news item on Chuck Berry’s passing. Tracks 2-7 are included as examples of contemporary classical music. Tracks 8-14 are included as songs from albums recorded in unconventional spaces, or at home. Track 15 provides an example of the erhu …
Extended Play: April 2017
Here are some additional tracks to accompany the reading in the April 2017 issue. Track 1 is included for April’s Who’s News item on singer-songwriter Gaelynn Lea. Tracks 2-8 provide examples of early rumba music in America, as well as several early Latin jazz hits and “The Girl from Ipanema,” a bossa standard. Tracks 9-14 include a variety of tracks …