Journey Through Two Decades of Musical Mastery with this Versatile Virtuoso Andy Smythe. Andy Smythe has an uncanny ability to hold an audience's attention. Smythe has been performing for almost twenty years, and his songs and stories continue to captivate audiences. His energetic narrative is well matched by his silky tenor voice, which is among the best in the profession. Smythe's stage presence and talent as...

I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...