Joseph Connolly reviews One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown

Michael Henderson listens once more to the Great American Songbook, most enriching of entertainments

Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker

For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume

How a stiff, gangly, middle-aged Englishman fell for the seductive rhythms of Cuba

How Canada reinvented its musical prowess

From music to medicine: the secrets of a Kensington home

The role of music in Jewish worship has acquired a sudden topicality with the involvement of two major record labels

Grand opera was long thought quite dead but is suddenly rearing its shaggy head again

I want to listen to music that sounds like the dumb hopefulness of being young that I once couldn’t wait to rid myself of, says Sarah Ditum