In the ’60s, Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, his big band, sold a whole lot of horny easy-listening instrumental music. Their album Whipped Cream And Other Delights was the biggest-selling LP of 1966.

Although Sundazed Music is still headquartered in Coxsackie, Irwin and his wife bought a home in Leiper's Fork, Tenn., in 2009. "We thought it would be a secondary residence," he says, "but as ...

The songs on Quilt's third album, Plaza, were stitched together from old voice memos and lyrics written at various times throughout the Boston band's seven-year lifespan. The result, however ...