"I'm In The Mood For Love" is a classic American standard, a torch song that's been a part of popular culture for nearly a century. The song presumably, for instance, inspired the title of Wong ...

If at times it feels like there’s something missing on the dense, synthesized tracks of Daniel Lanois’s “Flesh and Machine” (Anti-), his exercise in electronic and ambient music, it is because Mr.

“Piano Man,” Billy Joel’s 1973 story-song about an evening in the life of a barroom ivory-tickler, tells the tale of a lounge populated by regulars and presided over by the titular performer, who’s ...