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Jeff Tweedy is an artist who transcends time. Wait—let me clarify that. Tweedy, the multi-hyphenate singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-producer for the midwestern-bred alt-rocking Americana band Wilco, has spent the bulk of his career creating music that crosses the divides between past, present, and future.

If I told you Wilco's 21-song, genre-straddling double album Cruel Country, which was released in August, could easily be a contemporary of the Band's Music From Big Pink from the summer of 1968—as much…

Tweedy: Oh, I think there was a conversation about the two approaches, but it would have been very frustrating to try to make a really meticulously studio-crafted album at the same time we were dissecting Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I think that's maybe one of the things that contributed to the joy of just going through all those tracks with a…

The works of the greatest jazz composers are often neglected today because most current jazz musicians are obsessed with writing their own stuff. Enter Ethan Philion, a Chicago bassist who reveres Charles Mingus and believes, correctly, that Mingus's music is underperformed.

Meditations on Mingus is rich with rewards that only come from accessing a genre's strongest repertoire. It contains 50- and 60-year-old…

Noseda's Tchaikovsky 5 offers a more distinctive sound than the customary generic polish. The LSO strings' soft-edged attack produces a nice, cushiony backdrop for expressive woodwinds and crisp, focused brass. There's no tonal bloat—those midrange horn chords don't carry an ounce of extra fat—and balances are…

I doubt that very many Stereophile readers have spent as much as Lincoln Center did on the renovation of Geffen Hall: $550 million. But then few audiophiles' systems are supported by the likes of David Geffen, a $100 million contributor to the Geffen Hall project, or Joseph and Clara Wu Tsai, who gave $50 million.

Geffen made his contribution several years ago, setting the stage, as it were, for the renovation. Tsai's late-…

This is not just another…

Lifetimes later, I think I understand. Although to my recollection the connection was never made explicit, the writer was attempting to reinforce his credentials as a connoisseur in all matters.

An…

Description: Multiway, bass-reflex floorstanding loudspeaker. Drive units: 1" Wilson Convergent Synergy Carbon silk-dome tweeter in sealed carbon-fiber enclosure; one 7" QuadraMag alnico doped paper-pulp midrange unit in rear-slotted X-, S-, and V-Material enclosure; 8" and 10" hard paper-pulp woofers in rear-ported X- and V-Material enclosure. Sensitivity: 90dB/W/m at 1kHz. Nominal impedance: 4 ohms. Minimum impedance: 2.59 ohms at 84Hz. Minimum amplifier power: 20Wpc. Frequency response: 19Hz–33kHz ±3dB, Room Average Response.
Dimensions: 50.9" (1295mm) H…

Digital sources: dCS Rossini Apex DAC, Rossini Clock and Transport; Innuos Statement NextGen Music Server; Roon Nucleus+ music server, Uptone Audio EtherRegen with AfterDark Giesemann Emperor Double Crown Master Clock, and Nordost QNet Ethernet Switch, all powered by Nordost QSource linear power supplies (2); Small Green Computer Sonore Deluxe opticalModule, Linksys mesh router, and Arris modem, all powered by HDPlex 300 linear power supply; Apple 2017 iPad Pro.
Preamplifier: Dan D'Agostino Momentum HD.
Power amplifiers: Dan D'Agostino Progression…