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What's Trending
by Leo Sidran
This week on the Third Story Podcast I'm turning the tables on myself and sharing the stories and the creative process behind my new record What's Trending. Featuring excerpts of past episodes with artists who collaborated on the record and inspired the songs, including Boz Scaggs, Louis Cato, Janis Siegel, Michael Leonhart, Peter Coyote and more. ...
Continue ReadingBraxton Cook: Who Are You When No One Is Watching?
by Leo Sidran
While almost everyone is sharing the most polished and curated versions of themselves, Braxton Cook is asking “Who Are You When No One Is Watching?"Actually, as it turns out, it's a question he's asking of himself, and in a somewhat postmodern and ironic twist, he's doing it quite publicly on his new record, called (surprise!) Who Are You When No One Is Watching? which comes out February 24 on Nettwerk Records.Braxton Cook is an artist of ...
Continue ReadingRachael & Vilray: A Delight For The Mouth
by Leo Sidran
Rachael & Vilray are a perfect example of the idea that sometimes what that once seemed old fashioned can actually resonate as new again. Their new record I Love A Love Song! comes out this week. Rachael Price is best known as the singer in the band Lake Street Dive. She and Vilray met at college two decades ago. But it would take them years before they discovered their mutual love of the American songbook standards from the ...
Continue ReadingThird Story Podcast - The Ones That Got Away (Holiday Edition)
by Leo Sidran
Every year, The Third Story collects more interviews and conversations than we are able to publish as full episodes, and 2022 was certainly no exception. Finally, we have found a solution: The Ones That Got Away, 2022 Holiday Edition.Conversations with saxophonist Bill McHenry, keyboard player/producer Didi Gutman (Brazilian Girls), pianist Jon Dryden, pianist Dan Tepfer, trumpet player/graphic designer Jamie Breiwick, and pianist Randy Ingram with singer Aubrey Johnson, collected around the world this year. ...
Continue ReadingAntonio Sanchez is The Bad Hombre
by Leo Sidran
When drummer Antonio Sanchez released his album Bad Hombre back in 2017, he was responding to a few events that took place in his world at the same time.On a political level, the music was a response to the racism of the Trump campaign against Mexicans. In fact the title of the record Bad Hombre seemed to be an answer to Trump's assertion that a wall needed to be built at the US Mexican border in order to ...
Continue ReadingIbrahim Maalouf: If You Want To See The Future, Just Watch The Culture Today
by Leo Sidran
When Ibrahim Maalouf's parents decided to move to Paris from Beirut in the early 1980s, it was meant to be temporary. The Lebanese civil war was raging and they chose to raise their family away from the violence. But the intention was always to return to Lebanon when the war ended. They did their best to educate their children in the traditional way, and because they were both musicians themselves, music was hugely important to them. They played arabic music ...
Continue ReadingFor Jorge Drexler Everything Comes From Empathy
by Leo Sidran
Jorge Drexler started out as a doctor in Uruguay but eventually emigrated to Spain to try his luck in music. 30 years later he is widely considered to be one of the most influential Spanish language songwriters alive. He has recorded 15 albums, received 31 Latin Grammy nominations (he won 7 so far and he's nominated for 9 more this year) and an Oscar win for his song “Al otro lado del rio" in 2005.He is currently on ...
Continue ReadingTyshawn Sorey: I want to give listeners and experience that they haven't had before
by Leo Sidran
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Tyshawn Sorey on his latest recordings (Mesmerism and The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism), his recent composition “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)," making work that defies category, growing up in Newark, comedy as a form of self-care, the radical idea of Blackness, exploring alternative musical models, his photographic memory, the interaction between improvisation and composition, processing ancestral trauma through music, and bad Italian food. ...
Continue ReadingFor Author Peter Straub, Listening To Jazz Was Like Reading Fiction
by Leo Sidran
Peter Straub was the best selling author of novels, short stories, novellas and essays. He passed away earlier this month at the age of 79.Peter started out with dreams of writing poetry and literary fiction. After publishing his first two novels, and two books of poetry, he finally asked himself the question that so many artists find themselves asking: how do I make a living at this? An agent suggested he try writing a “gothic novel," advice that ...
Continue ReadingCyrille Aimée: Improvisation Is A Way Of Life
by Leo Sidran
Long before singer Cyrille Aimee spent any time on the road she was already a citizen of the world. She grew up in a small French town, Samois-sur-Seine, but says that she never felt fully French. She never felt fully any one thing. Her mother is Dominican, her father is French, and she says that “when you're a mixed culture, you're kind of your own thing."Samois-sur-Seine is very small but in the 1990s of Cyrille's childhood it did ...
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