Are you stressed? Worried? Burnt out? Then I have a simple suggestion: pick up an instrument. Why? Well, because I believe learning guitar is the best thing you can do to soothe your gnashing brain.

"When the first notes of [the music] threaded their way into my consciousness, they seemed to come from inside me…music wound its way through me as sound turned pure sensation." —The New York Times on ...

I wonder if Norman Granz ever fully appreciated the talent he accumulated beneath the mantle of Pablo Records. Ella, Oscar, Joe, Bill (Basie), Ray, Dizzy, Milt, Jon and the list goes on. Listening to ...