PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay — At first the scene looks and sounds like jazz, not tango. There’s burly Joe Lovano, one of the most acclaimed U.S. jazz artists today, playing a burly saxophone. Paquito ...

Almost every song you hear has a chord progression. This forms the harmonic content of the song, and is often what gives a song its emotional impact. But what about the melody? The notes of the melody ...

LEN WICKS stands at a lectern inside a Santa Ana union hall and mulls what he has just heard: 22 trombones playing a bossa nova version of “Fly Me to the Moon.” He chooses his words carefully. “I ...

Is the quite splendid “Operation Mincemeat” ridiculously clever or cleverly ridiculous? Both. Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligence ...