Ben Ratliff is running. He’s off the cinder path encircling Van Cortland Park’s Parade Ground, not far from his home in the Bronx, N.Y. He enters the woods. Earphones in, he listens to Eric Dolphy’s ...

Perhaps as a way of combating his image as the king of the sensitive singer/songwriters, Jackson Browne changed things up with Running on Empty in 1977. He recorded the newly written songs for the ...

My book Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening is an attempt to come to terms with running as a means of hearing music better. Of course, running is good enough on its own; it doesn’t ...

In this case, it makes sense to begin in the middle — that is, several miles into a run in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, with the blues or hardcore or even traditional Japanese flute music blasting ...