The Amsterdam Files: In the days before take-off...

Music in My Ears

Joni Mitchell: Cloud
Gentle Giant: Free Hand
Moondog: The German Years
Beck: Mutations
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
Zoe Keating: One Cello x 16
Elliott Smith: Figure 8
Jeff Buckley: Grace
Stadtaffe: Peter Fox
Boy, October and War: U2
Derek & the Dominos: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Maria Schneider: Sky Blue
B.B. King: Lucille
Beck: Modern Guilt
Terence Blanchard: A Tale of God's Will
Notes from the Edge: (self-titled)
Leon Russell: Retrospective
Joe Cocker: Anthology
Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
Henry Townsend: Cairo Blues
Esa-Pekka and LA Phil: Debussy's "La Mer"
Beaux Arts Trio: Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor
Gyorg Ligeti: Six Bagatelles and chamber works
Stephen Sondheim: Anyone Can Whistle

Books in my hands:

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
The Music of Joni Mitchell by Lloyd Whitesell
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Structural Hearing by Felix Salzer
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Findings: 50 Years of Meditations on Music by Leonard Bernstein
U2 by U2
Music and Imagination by Aaron Copland
Broken Music by Sting
Anti-Cancer
The Age of Turbulence: Larry Greenspan
The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film by J.W. Rinzler
Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan
Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Producer: John Hammand and the Soul of American Music by Dunstan Prial
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
1968 by Mark Kurlansky
What Every Pianist Needs to Know About The Body by Thomas Mark
The Study of Orchestration by Samuel Adler
Theory of Harmony by Arnold Schoenberg
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Duke Ellington: Beyond Genius by John Hasse
Orchestration by Walter Piston
Candide by Voltaire
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Art of Travel by Allain de Botton
1968 by Mark Kurlansky