Wes Phillips

Just to get you in the mood, if you're going to hear Sonny Rollins at Carnegie Hall tonight. Or, if like me, you won't be there, just as a treat, there are some new videos up on Rollins' website.

It gets my vote!

Now you can be incomprehensible in several languages.

"If Alex were a dog, he would be 189 years old. But he's a parrot and he's 27. In parrot years that's 27. Unless Alex chokes on a nut or falls out of his cage, he should live another 50 years. In a perfect world, healthy parrots can live 80 to 90 years."

Oliver Sacks on music and amnesia—and about just how puzzling cognition and memory truly are.

There's more to Diana Krall than just the sexy sizzle.

The KGB's long war with Nureyev.