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Jorge Drexler

¡Viva la resistencia! Cafe Central, Madrid

by Leo Sidran
December 26, 2025

A story of Madrid's Cafe Central, going out of business after over 40 years as the beating heart of jazz in the Spanish capital. The old saying “wherever you go, there you are" is one of those deceptively simple adages that never lets you down. And yet, the longer I've lived with it, the ...

Leonor Watling always wore many hats

by Leo Sidran
October 11, 2025

Leonor Watling grew up in Madrid, just as Spain itself was waking up after four decades of dictatorship. Her father was a Spanish academic, her mother an Englishwoman raised in Africa. From the start, Leonor inhabited multiple worlds--speaking different languages, moving between cultures--yet never quite belonging fully to any one of them. She grew ...

Celebrating The Third Story at 10 with Will Lee and Amanda Sidran

by Leo Sidran
February 4, 2024

Ten years ago, on a bit of a whim, I invited bassist Will Lee to come over to my home studio in Brooklyn to do an interview with me for a new project I was starting: a podcast. A year or two earlier, my friend had turned me on to Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and I ...

Ben Sidran at 80: This is your life

by Leo Sidran
August 16, 2023

For the fifth consecutive year I interviewed my father, Ben Sidran on his birthday. This year he's turning 80 and I surprised him with reflections and anecdotes by friends and colleagues from throughout his career, including Jeff Greenfield, Boz Scaggs, Jann Wenner, Glyn Johns, Michael Cuscuna, Phil Upchurch, Georgie Fame, Gil Goldstein, Neil Tesser, Janis Siegel, ...

For Jorge Drexler Everything Comes From Empathy

by Leo Sidran
November 9, 2022

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 ...

The Art Of Conversation

By Leo Sidran

Label: Nardis Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Row On; The Art Of Conversation; Trying Times; Georgette; Song For A Sucker Like You.

The Art Of Aging Gracefully Through Music

by Leo Sidran
December 6, 2021

Advice from friends and family ranging in age from 10 to 93 about how to stay young, what makes a meaningful life, ambition, desire, fear, success and music. With Sol Sidran age 10, Zelta Sils age 10, Zane Gruber Baruth age 21, Michael Thurber age 34, Michael Leonhart age 47, Jorge Drexler age 57, Daniel Levitin ...

Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Find the Common, Shine a Light

by Angelo Leonardi
May 18, 2018

Pur confermando l'avvincente impronta stilistica evidenziata nei tre album precedenti, il pianoless quintet di Ryan Keberle presenta un lavoro leggermente disorganico e musicalmente più superficiale dei precedenti, forse perchè distolto da un intento politico (contestare l'elezione presidenziale statunitense del 2016). Il percorso musicale raccoglie due famosi temi della contestazione giovanile degli anni sessanta («The Times They ...

Vocal Icon Janis Siegel Releases First Solo Album in Seven Years: "NightSongs"

October 25, 2013

Over the past four decades, the voice of Janis Siegel, a nine-time Grammy winner and a seventeen-time Grammy nominee, has been an undeniable force in music; a founding member of The Manhattan Transfer, solo artist, producer and arranger, Janis is “about as eclectic in her musical tastes as a pop singer can get,” writes The New ...