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Steely Dan’s <I>Aja</I> isn’t exactly jazz, but given (a) the presence of such jazz luminaries as Wayne Shorter and Victor Feldman, (b) the jazz sensibility of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, (c) my blogger’s prerogative to step outside genres once in a while, and (d) the fact that my host, <I>Stereophile</I>, is, after all, an audiophile magazine, I feel entitled to mention—and wholeheartedly recommend—Cisco Music's LP
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reissue</A>.

Murray Lerner spent 1963&ndash;1965 filming Bob Dylan, "a study of a major artist in transition." Soon, we'll finally see it.

Paul Hillier decided to record Stockhausen's <I>Stimmung</I>. The composer had a few few thoughts.

It's time for a new round of "Shakespeare debunking," arguing that the son of an illiterate laborer could never have written works so full of science, history, legal shenanigans, and aristocratic mores&mdash;that it must have been a cabal, one that included at least a few nobles.

Richard Sherman strolls down memory lane, telling us what it was like to work on the last Walt Disney animated feature, <I>The Jungle Book</I>. Well, there were more cartoons from Disney, but <I>TJB</I> was Walt's last.

I've been spending the last few days exploring <I>Riley Rock Index</I>, billed as music's megaportal&mdash;justifiably, I believe.

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy gives us a fascinating overview of Islam's long and variable engagement with science. "The question I want to pose—perhaps as much to myself as to anyone else—is this: With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of creating new knowledge?"