What are friends for? That's a question Ann Packer poses in her second novel, "Songs Without Words," a domestic drama that explores issues of loyalty between two women who grew up together in Palo ...

Like its 1997 predecessor, the second volume in Windham Hill's Songs Without Words solo piano series goes heavy on artists not affiliated with the label, some of whom are not even pianists by trade.

Bassist Dan Dean's original plan for this project was the hiring of sixteen string players to join him in the studio to record a set for solo bass with string orchestra: Vivaldi's Concerto For Lute ...

Recorded for Harvest in 1970, Songs Without Words was only originally released in Japan. At the time, Chris Spedding was a much sought after guitarist in jazz and rock with one of the most impressive ...

In response to Eddie Dean’s review of Ben Yagoda’s “The B-Side” (“After the Hit Parade Had Gone,” Books, Jan. 31), the 1950s and early ’60s may have been a graveyard for composers of “sophisticated ...