CDs offer lossless audio with great dynamic range ; You can own music on a CD, controlling your access ; CDs make it easy to listen to albums from start to finish ...

William Scobie, who studied violin at Southeast, has released a CD of easy listening favorites. "Echoes of Dreams" includes five of Scobie's own transcriptions for violin and piano.

Rochester radio station KNXR, that bastion of easy-listening music for the past 42 years, is offering for sale compact discs of historic recordings pulled from the station’s vaults.

Listening to good music could hardly be easier. It is, in fact, too easy. ... At the used music stores where I live, almost all the CDs are $5 or less.

What easy listening did in its heyday was fill the gap between classical music and jazz on the one hand and kiddie fare on the other. Not every day is a Bruno Walter Mahler No. 9 kind of day.

Easy-listening music and its maestros never had to worry about screaming teenage fans or long stadium tours. Ridiculed in the 1960s and since as “elevator music,” the gentle genre was ...