Music

...the Pogues are and always will be one of the great exports of Ireland.

The outfits and haircuts are amusingly dated, the rather stodgy camera work a little less amusingly so.

The rest of us will be perfectly content humming along to "Making Plans For Nigel" again.

It's like having him stop by and giving you a personal concert.

A bridge for the new listeners between the recognizable motifs of bebop and the freer feeling of new jazz.

The best of the week, beginning-of-autumn edition.

A gem of a disc full of beautiful lush sounds and luxurious tones.

Charles Mingus takes you to school, but it was never this much fun

Live in Tokyo provides an opportunity to hear the easier pieces Mingus came up with and nothing he ever did was easy.

This is the best Weird Al album ever. Seriously.