Put on your headphones and its a DJ battle and epic dance party. Take them off, and it’s as quiet as an ice cream social. Downstairs in Toshi’s Living Room, a building looming in the shadow of the ...

Saxophonist Ellery Eskelin's trio with Andrea Parkins and Jim Black is so tight, so dense, that it's hard to imagine another musician in the mix. But on this double-disc set he adds vocalist Jessica ...

More than two decades after Don Campbell published The Mozart Effect, debate continues over whether listening to classical music can raise your IQ. Most studies into whether quiet music for kids – or, ...

We have all had the experience of getting home from an incredibly stressful day, our muscles tense, jaw clenched, and mind racing. We turn on quiet music, and soon the physical effects of stress ...

The gifted and convention-busting tenor saxist Ellery Eskelin has appeared regularly in irregular settings over the past 20-odd years, but one of the most ear-stretching (and thus ear-massaging) is ...