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What's Trending

by Leo Sidran
March 12, 2023

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 ...

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Braxton Cook: Who Are You When No One Is Watching?

by Leo Sidran
February 23, 2023

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 ...

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Rachael & Vilray: A Delight For The Mouth

by Leo Sidran
January 11, 2023

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 ...

Album

Swing State

By Ben Sidran

Label: Nardis
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. Lullaby of the Leaves 05:19 2. Swing State 06:10 3 Laura 05:35 4. Ain't Misbehavin 04:53 5. Stompin' at the Savoy 04:49 6. Somewhere Over The Rainbow 04:00 7. Tuxedo Junction 05:09 8. Laura - Alt Take 05:57

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Third Story Podcast - The Ones That Got Away (Holiday Edition)

by Leo Sidran
December 28, 2022

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 ...

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Antonio Sanchez is The Bad Hombre

by Leo Sidran
December 7, 2022

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 ...

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Ibrahim Maalouf: If You Want To See The Future, Just Watch The Culture Today

by Leo Sidran
November 23, 2022

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 ...

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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 ...

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Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Eve Risser, Shoko Igarashi, Antonio Sanchez & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 5, 2022

Inspired by Leo Sidran's latest single, “There Was a Fire," this week we look into various threads of memory--making (or memory--keeping) that can be found in projects that bring together various cultural traditions (West-African or Cuban, Mitteleuropean or Japanese), bring new light to old repertoires, pay tribute to earlier composers or music-genres. Happy listening! ...

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Tyshawn Sorey: I want to give listeners and experience that they haven't had before

by Leo Sidran
October 8, 2022

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 ...