Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music.

Musicians will be delighted to know that the site provides sheet music, so if you fall in love with a particular piece, you can follow along or even learn to play it. When Last.fm was initially ...

We get the resistance to streaming. You're paying not to own music, just rent it. And physical media is so much better in so many ways – sound quality, tactility, artwork, a deeper connection with the ...

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