Brian Wilson, musical genius and founder of the Beach Boys, died today (Wednesday, June 11, 2025), so in honor of him, here ...

Randy Newman, “The Randy Newman Songbook, Volume Three” (Nonesuch). In a perfect world, the Pultizer Prize for Music would have decided 30 years ago to forsake, as hopelessly out of date ...

Kilgore mined the Great American Songbook for songs like “Day In – Day Out,” “The Gentlemen is a Dope,” and “There’s a Small Hotel” to round out the selection. The Rebecca Kilgore Trio – Vol. 1 is an ...

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Despite that skill with an orchestra, the roots of Dark Matter rest in a more stripped-down project: A two-volume collection called The Randy Newman Songbook, in which Newman revisits his past ...

it’s a masterful collection so rich with sonic detail that you almost hope he never gets around to making “The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 4.” The record starts with its most elaborate number ...

The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2, which is the second in a series of new solo piano/vocal recordings of his songs spanning his five-decades, was released in 2011. Time Out New York said of the ...

“The Randy Newman Songbook,” a new 3-CD box set ... (In typical Newman fashion, he led off Vol. 1 with the ultra tongue-in-cheek “It’s Lonely at the Top.”) For this box set, Newman ...

Last fall, he released Volume Three of The Randy Newman Songbook, a collection of the singer-songwriter performing material from throughout his career by himself on piano. He also released an ...

And so to the third (and I think final) volume of solo piano-only recordings, following on from vol 2 (2011) and vol 1 (2003). Randy Newman ... of the great American songbook are obvious, as ...

Randy Newman knows what ... Thus was born his series of “Songbook” albums, on which Newman, 72, performs his tunes by himself on piano. The first volume was released in 2003 featuring stripped ...

The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 2 ... This review originally included a statement suggesting that Newman conceived Vol. 1 of the Songbook series to buy time while writing his album Harps and ...