LATEST ADDITIONS

Discovery of a "hybrid" skeleton in Portugal has paleontologists speculating that it might be the result of Neanderthal/modern human mating, perhaps challenging the "out of Africa" scenario.

Mindless fun—and it's ed-u-ma-cational!

How sex, rum, and WWII ignited the fad that will not die.

How Matmos came to use an Enigma machine on <I>For Alan Turing</I>.

Earlier this week I was invited to Per Se, a sleek restaurant in the Time Warner Center here in NYC for a lavish lunch sponsored by Concord Records. Co-owner Norman Lear was there. So was former SNL and now Letterman band leader Paul Shaffer who served as MC. The occasion was the release of another Ray Charles project which I will be writing about in more detail in an upcoming issue of the magazine. Titled <I>Ray Swings—Basie Swings</I>, it's an elaborate studio creation. Again though, Look for more in December's <I>Stereophile</I>.

The name of the essay is "Fervor," and that's what Ross writes with. If you can read the last paragraph of this tribute to Ms. Hunt Lieberson without tearing up, you have my condolences.