Un Samedi en Décembre captured Randy playing a career-spanning selection of his songs, mostly solo on piano. He was accompanied on a few tunes by a string section. Among the songs he performed were ...

Bad news first: Randy Newman’s latest has only 30 minutes of new material. Perhaps Nonesuch, his record label, applied pressure to produce something new three years after signing him (his previous ...

Randy Newman is one of the boldest singer/songwriters ever to have had a major-label record deal, and by 1983 he was a lyrical satirist with few true peers. His character studies have sometimes been ...