The Third Story with Leo Sidran
294 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsTHE THIRD STORY features long-form interviews with creative people of all types, hosted by musician Leo Sidran. Their stories of discovery, loss, ambition, identity, risk, and reward are deeply moving and compelling for all of us as we embark on our own creative journeys.
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225: Stacey Kent
June 28, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBSinger Stacey Kent says she tends to be attracted to the “feeling of unrest,” and she thinks that her fans like to feel it too. Over the course of a 30 year career that has produced over 20 albums (including including the Grammy-nominated Breakfast On The Morning Tram), Stacey has mined that feeling again and again in different ways. Maybe she understands how to express the complicated emotions around identity, romance, displacement and longing because she has lived them so fully herself...
Donald Fagen from 2019
June 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBJust when you think you know all there is to know about Donald Fagen, he surprises you. There are legendary stories, traded like playing cards in chat rooms, fanzines, and merch lines. Along with his musical partner, the late Walter Becker (who passed away in 2017), Fagen influenced countless musicians, producers and songwriters by setting the gold standard in record production and arrangement with his band Steely Dan. This is known. There are the solo records, including The Nightfly (releas...
224: Ryan Lerman
June 14, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBRyan Lerman has a few tricks up his sleeve. Best known as the cofounder of Scary Pockets, a dynamic funk band from LA who came to prominence on YouTube, Ryan is also an accomplished singer songwriter, bassist, arranger and producer. His early work with Michael Bublé, John Legend, Vanessa Carlton and Ben Folds prepared him for a career as a session player, and his early solo records showcased his plain spoken, plaintive and soulful connection to the human condition. Lerman met his Scary P...
Lionel Loueke (WBGO Studios Preview)
May 31, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBWhen Lionel Loueke was coming of age as a young guitar player in his home country of Benin in West Africa, there were no music stores of any kind. He would have had to travel to Nigeria, the next country over, just to get his hands on some new strings. So he made due with what he had, cleaning and soaking, reusing his strings and even going so far as to tie knots in them when they broke. Loueke’s story is the stuff of legend. After finally getting his hands on a guitar as a teenager, he p...
Eric Harland (WBGO Studios Preview)
May 24, 2022 04:05 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBWe’re back with another classic episode from the archive in honor of the new partnership between this podcast and listener supported WBGO Studios. All month I’m revisiting some of my favorite episodes from over the years, and starting in June I’ll be back with all new fresh episodes. You can find these at www.wbgo.org/studios where you will also discover their ever expanding selection of hipster content. And if you want to dig on the full Third Story archive, you can find that at www.third...
223: Matthew Stevens
May 21, 2022 21:50 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBThe fact that he grew up in Toronto is not necessarily crucial to understanding guitarist Matthew Stevens point of view. He’s regarded to be one of "most exciting up-and-coming jazz guitarists" in his generation, in any part of the world. His songs and guitar playing are featured on albums by the likes of Christian Scott, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Douglas, Linda Oh, Harvey Mason. He has worked as a guitarist with producers Quincy Jones, Glen Ballard and Tony Visconti....
Bob Power (WBGO Studios Preview)
May 17, 2022 04:05 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBWhat do A Tribe Called Quest, David Byrne, The Roots, D’Angelo, Pat Metheny, Erykah Badu, Jason Moran, Me’Shell N’degéocello, India.Arie, J Dilla, Run DMC, and Theo Croker have in common? They all benefited from the sound of Bob Power’s recording, mixing or production. Bob has had a profound effect on the sound of Hip Hop and modern music in general. Despite the fact that he says “I learned early on from working in television that if someone notices your work, you’re probably screwed,” I...
Jason Moran (WBGO Studios Preview)
May 10, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBJason Moran is so prolific and multifaceted that any attempt to summarize his career poses a daunting challenge. Now think about what it’s like preparing for a conversation with him. He’s a composer, conceptual artist, educator, and public intellectual with a critical disposition — critical in the sense of challenging the status quo, while still respecting the accomplishments of his mentors. First and foremost, he’s a piano player who straddles avant-garde jazz, the blues, classical music,...
222: Walter Smith III
May 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBFrom an early age, Walter Smith III began taking music very seriously. “My first gig was playing at a McDonalds in Houston with another saxophone player. I took a solo on “Blue Bossa.” It was terrible. People clapped, and I figured if I could get away with that and get applause, how could I fail?” Although it may appear Smith is a new voice on the scene, he is widely recognized as an adept performer, accomplished composer, and inspired educator. This spring, Smith welcomes his newest releas...
Jon Batiste (WBGO Studios Preview)
May 03, 2022 04:05 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBBefore he reigned supreme at the Grammy Awards, before he was an Oscar-winning composer (for Pixar’s Soul), before he was bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and well before he’d become one of the rare jazz artists considered a household name, Jon Batiste was simply a rising star of the piano, making what he called “social music.” Batiste hails from Kenner, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. He was born into a musical family, and thrust into the mix at an early age, singin...
Job Batiste (WBGO Studios Preview)
May 03, 2022 04:05 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBBefore he reigned supreme at the Grammy Awards, before he was an Oscar-winning composer (for Pixar’s Soul), before he was bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and well before he’d become one of the rare jazz artists considered a household name, Jon Batiste was simply a rising star of the piano, making what he called “social music.” Batiste hails from Kenner, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. He was born into a musical family, and thrust into the mix at an early age, singi...
221: Michelle Willis
April 16, 2022 04:05 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBMichelle Willis is either already one of your favorite singer-songwriters, or she’s about to be one. If you haven’t already discovered her from her work with Snarky Puppy, Becca Stevens, or David Crosby, prepare to fall in love with her intelligent, soulful, emotive singing, writing and playing. Her latest record, Just One Voice invites us into a world of doubt, anxiety, hope, balance and letting go—a process Michelle Willis skillfully guides us through with arresting arrangements that...
220: Nate Craig
April 06, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBNate Craig is an internationally touring comedian. He plays "Phil" in the Netflix series "Maniac" and was a cast member on TruTV's "World's Dumbest". He was recently featured on Comedy Central's "Roast Battle" and AXS Gotham Comedy Live. Nate has appearances on Comedy Central's Tosh.0 and "Mash-up", which he also wrote for. He's written for 3 seasons of "Ridiculousness" on MTV. Nate has been featured at the Bridgetown, RIOT LA, and HBO Las Vegas Comedy Festivals, and has headlined the "Lau...
219: Lauren Henderson
March 30, 2022 13:29 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBVocalist Lauren Henderson is unusual in all the best ways. Described as "somewhere between a comforting whisper and a cogent declaration" by The New York Times, she sings with an intimate, sultry, haunting intensity. Her music might be mysterious, but she is an open book. Raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts (birthplace of the American Navy and just down the road from Salem, MA) she attended some of the finest schools in New England. She was a varsity field hockey player at Wheaton Colleg...
218: Jake Sherman
March 22, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBJake Sherman is everywhere at once and yet somehow maintains a certain air of mystery. There he is singing romantic 80s inspired jams. Here he comes making a jazz Hammond organ record at Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club and jamming with Larry Goldings. Don’t look now but he’s hanging out in LA with his friends in Scary Pockets, or with his project Jake and Abe (a duo with drummer Abe Rounds). Is that him playing on the new Rosalia record? Wait, he plays harmonica? With Jacob Collier? Maybe you heard ...
217: Melissa Aldana
March 12, 2022 05:40 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBSaxophonist Melissa Aldana on growing up in Chile, her journey to America, practicing, teaching, numerology, playing the blues, “the gender thing”, learning to embrace imperfection, her new record “12 Stars”, her idea of success, and what she values most in music: sound, time and ideas. www.third-story.com www.patreon.com/thirdstorypodcast www.melissaaldana.net
216: David Poe
February 22, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBDavid Poe is a songwriter’s songwriter. He refers to himself as “a songwriter of a certain age”. As a young man in Dayton, Ohio he got his first taste of success by winning a talent competition and using his prize (free studio time) to record what would become his first radio hit. That was back when a young musician might dream of a big record contract. He sings in a new song “Now I’m part of history, when the music cost money but the water was free.” He has covered a lot of road since then ...
David Poe
February 22, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBDavie Poe is a songwriter’s songwriter. He refers to himself as “a songwriter of a certain age”. As a young man in Dayton, Ohio he got his first taste of success by winning a talent competition and using his prize (free studio time) to record what would become his first radio hit. That was back when a young musician might dream of a big record contract. He sings in a new song “Now I’m part of history, when the music cost money but the water was free.” He has covered a lot of road since th...
215: Amir ElSaffar
February 07, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBAmir ElSaffar has spent much of his life in search of the ecstatic moments that help connect to something bigger. In his case, he does this through his relationship with music and culture. Trying to define or even explain what he does is not so simple, even for him. He leads five ensembles and has released seven albums over the past 16 years. His primary instrument is the trumpet, and he has devoted much of his career to expanding the vocabulary of the instrument. He also sings in the Ara...
214: Adam O'Farrill
January 29, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBSometimes when a child of a musician shows an interest or an aptitude in playing music themselves, it’s called “the curse”. Sometimes the curse is revealed in mysterious ways, and the cursed child might not even realize that they have the curse until something clicks in them, a light goes off, a switch flips. In the case of Adam O’Farrill, he says he discovered his curse when, at 8 years old, he went to his older brother’s Zach’s middle school band concert and saw the trumpet player. Look...
113: Benny Benack III
January 09, 2022 22:07 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBBenny Benack III didn’t necessarily start out thinking he would be a hipster crooner. He spent his 10,000 hours dealing with the trumpet, and he’s still dealing with it. He tells me that he brings it with him everywhere - even on dates. He says, “Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Roy Hargrove, and Clark Terry were my early idols and everything about my musical identity is steeped in the trumpet vocabulary.” Benny Grew up in Pittsburgh, the third in a trilogy of musical Benny Benacks (he fol...
213: Benny Benack III
January 09, 2022 22:07 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBBenny Benack III didn’t necessarily start out thinking he would be a hipster crooner. He spent his 10,000 hours dealing with the trumpet, and he’s still dealing with it. He tells me that he brings it with him everywhere - even on dates. He says, “Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Roy Hargrove, and Clark Terry were my early idols and everything about my musical identity is steeped in the trumpet vocabulary.” Benny Grew up in Pittsburgh, the third in a trilogy of musical Benny Benacks (he follow...
212: Lionel Loueke
January 01, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBWhen Lionel Loueke was coming of age as a young guitar player in his home country of Benin in West Africa, there were no music stores of any kind. He would have had to travel to Nigeria - the next country over - just to get his hands on some new strings. So he made due with what he had, cleaning and soaking, reusing his strings and even going so far as to tie knots in them when they broke. Lionel’s story is the stuff of legend. After finally getting his hands on a guitar as a teenager, ...
211: Tyler Duncan
December 23, 2021 21:44 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBBefore Tyler Duncan was a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist producer/composer with credits including Carly Rae Jepsen, Vulfpeck, Lake Street Dive, Theo Katzman, Scary Pockets and Antwaun Stanley, he was just a kid from Michigan who was obsessed with bagpipes. Tyler is still based in his hometown Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he makes artful, patient, beautifully crafted productions in his home studio. We had a wide ranging conversation about “just how rich the world sounds”, how prod...
210: The Art Of Aging Gracefully
November 27, 2021 19:06 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBAdvice 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, age 63 Gil Goldstein, age 71 Ben Sidran, age 78 Howard S. Becker, age 93 www.third-story.com
209: Martin Sexton
November 20, 2021 22:27 - 1 hour - 48.4 MB30 years ago Martin Sexton made a record called In The Journey. It wasn’t so much a record as it was a glorified demo tape that he sold while busking on the streets of Boston. He had moved there from his hometown of Syracuse, New York where he grew up in a large family (he was the 10th of 12 siblings). From the very beginning, Sexton figured out how to marry dynamic, soulful live performances with plainspoken and thoughtful songwriting. He’s a songwriter’s songwriter, but he’s also a mast...
208: Mike Errico
November 06, 2021 21:28 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBMike Errico’s new book Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter is about songwriting, and the life of the songwriter. Errico teaches songwriting at NYU, Yale and Wesleyan. He’s a serious thinker, and a serious talker. But he’s also a musician - he came of age in a music business that no longer exists, where a young songwriter could get signed to a contract on the strength of a handful of acoustic songs that played well in downtown coffee shops and song circles a...
207: Madison McFerrin
October 19, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBMadison McFerrin says she’s “Shedding the narrative about what it means to be an artist in the music industry.” In fact, she says she’s had to learn to shed a lot of things. Like her “identity”. She calls herself an independent singer-songwriter, which is both true and also not entirely the whole story. Questlove calls her a “soul-appella” singer because she first found a wide audience doing solo a cappella songs, just her and a looping pedal. In fact, from pretty much the start of her pr...
206: Peter Coyote
October 12, 2021 23:57 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBIn this bonus episode, actor, author, poet, director, screenwriter, narrator of films, and Zen Buddhist priest Peter Coyote talks about Buddhism, the "JewBu" phenomenon, the distinction between suffering and affliction, the limitations of language, the True Self, why it's so difficult to speak about attachment, the creative process, and his newfound passion for poetry. This conversation was organized and underwritten by Rabbi Severine from Temple Sinai in Newport News, Virginia. w...
205: Monica Martin
October 09, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBMonica Martin was 18 years old, driving in the car with her friend Matt and singing along with the radio. She had always enjoyed “hamming it up” and singing along to music, but she had no intention of taking it seriously. But the universe had other plans for her. Her friend, who Matt, who was a musician, coaxed her into performing; she started to sing in public and on friends’ records, which all led to her writing her own songs. She fronted experimental-folk-pop sextet, PHOX, formed in Ma...
204: The Legendary Nate Smith
September 27, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBDrummer, composer and bandleader Nate Smith is known and celebrated in many circles. In recent years his drumming has become as influential as it has been ubiquitous. Transcription books of his playing have been written, and any drummer trying to play funk or pocket oriented music today will have to confront Nate’s playing one way or another. He has a very specific and personal way of drumming, both deeply reliable and rooted, and also very fluid and flexible. Some know him from his early...
203: Dan and Claudia Zanes
September 18, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBFamily musicians Dan and Claudia Zanes had just moved to Baltimore from Brooklyn when Covid came on. In an effort to be useful, creative, and connected, they decided to record a video of a new song every day until it was over. They called it their “Social Isolation Song Series.” They imagined it would continue for a month or two. Two hundred musical days later we wrapped it up. As they tell it, something happened during that experience. Our thoughts about music became bigger and broader. We...
George Wein (from 2015)
September 15, 2021 02:36 - 56 minutes - 45.3 MBGeorge Wein opened his first jazz club, Storyville, in the early 1950s when he was a young man. He then created the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954. The festival became an icon among music festivals and influenced the way music was presented around the world. I spoke to George just before he turned 90, in 2015. At the time he was still vital and vibrant, working tirelessly to further the mission of his festival and his foundation (Newport Festivals Foundation). Although his festivals have be...
202: Joe Alterman
September 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBJoe Alterman is a southern guy with a sunny disposition. He came from Atlanta, and despite having put in years in New York, he never managed to shake off the southern charm. Joe is a piano player who wears his influences on his sleeve. While his contemporaries were deconstructing the music, Joe was drawn to the playing of more classic masters, like Ahmad Jamal, Ramsey Lewis and Les McCann. He loved the light touch of Red Garland and Hank Jones, but he also loved the blues and heft of Osca...
201: Antwaun Stanley
August 22, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBBy the time Antwaun Stanley entered the University of Michigan in the late aughts, he was already 15 years into what could be considered to be a successful singing career. He was signed as a contemporary gospel artist, had made the rounds on TV shows and singing contests, had been through a series of managers, producers and handlers who all recognized the immense electricity in his singing and his stage persona. Meanwhile, he was also just a regular kid from Flint, Michigan, raised by a s...
200: Ben Sidran at 78
August 14, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 31.1 MBFor the third year in a row, I talked to my dad, musician/producer/journalist/philosopher Ben Sidran in honor of his birthday. This time he’s turning 78, and we consider the “buddhist roots of jazz”, joy and pain, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, the final recordings of Lester Young, saxophonist Willis Jackson’s 1978 album Bar Wars, drummer Nate Smith’s latest record, how you know when you’re old, and the story of the Baal Shem Tov. www.third-story.com www.bensidran.com www.patreon.com/t...
199: Jon Lampley
August 10, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBJon Lampley knows how to “get in where you fit in.” He’s been doing it since he was a boy in an Ohio suburb, spending his week as “the only black kid at school” and his Sundays at Apostolic church in Akron, learning to play gospel music and call the spirit down. He also learned early on that commitment is crucial to what he does, commitment not only to the music he plays but also to the people he plays with, and to the audience too. You get the sense watching Jon that if he doesn’t feel i...
198: Michael Bland
July 11, 2021 04:05 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBIf you’ve ever seen or heard Michael Bland play drums, you probably didn’t forget it. He was legendary practically from the moment he started playing professionally as a teenager in Minneapolis. Maybe you’ve heard him with Nick Jonas & the Administration, Cory Wong, Chaka Khan, Maxwell, Soul Asylum, Mandy Moore, Johnny Lang, David Crosby or Vulfpeck. Chances are, you definitely heard him playing with Prince - he was the drummer in The New Power Generation, and played on classic Prince record...
197: Philip Lassiter
June 28, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBPhilip Lassiter spent his early years in Mobile, Alabama. He was the son of a white pentecostal preacher. “They clapped on one and three in my father’s church,” he says. Moving to Peoria, Illinois as a teenager was a revelation for him. As he tells it, “They beat the racist out of me in Peoria.” Lassiter’s story, both musical and personal, is a bit hard to unravel. He somehow managed to pay dues in multiple scenes seemingly at the same time. Philip’s has been a hero’s journey. Blink once...
196: Julian Lage
June 13, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBWhen Julian Lage plays guitar, it’s hard not to get swept up in it. His relationship with the instrument is natural and contagious. Maybe that’s because it’s been with him for most of his life. When he was just 8 years old, Julian was the subject of an Academy Award nominated documentary film called Jules at Eight. Before he entered his teens, he had already performed with Carlos Santana and jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton. While still in highschool he was a faculty member of the Stanford Jazz...
195: Michael Mayo
June 07, 2021 11:08 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBMichael Mayo is cautious when it comes to labels and categories. He prefers for the language he uses to be “descriptive rather than prescriptive.” It’s easy to understand why: because he defies category in many ways. A singer and composer who draws equally from the deep well of jazz vocal language and from neo soul, he’s a modern classic. Growing up in a musical family in LA (both of his parents are successful musicians) he was exposed to a life in music from the very start and had two...
194: The Art Of Conversation
May 30, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBA story about stories. How seven years and nearly 200 episodes of podcast interviews inspired the record The Art Of Conversation. Excerpts of conversations with Amy Cervini, Andre De Shields, Jorge Drexler, Kat Edmonson, Kurt Elling, John Fields, Larry Goldings, Tatum Greenblatt, Ryan Keberle, Jo Lawry, Orlando le Fleming, Adam Levy, Howard Levy, Anya Marina, Matt Munisteri, Ricky Peterson, Becca Stevens, Doug Wamble. www.third-story.com www.patreon.com/thirdstorypodcast www.leosidr...
193: Roxana Amed
May 15, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBWhen singer/songwriter/educator Roxana Amed moved from her home in Argentina to the United States, she didn’t walk. But she might as well have. She describes her new record as being like “a bag full of songs and memories” that she collected on her way from one shore to another. She seems to stand with one foot wading in the waters of the Hudson River and the other in the Rio de la Plata. When she left Buenos Aires, she was leaving with an already established career as both a singer and so...
Ep. 193: Roxana Amed
May 15, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBWhen singer/songwriter/educator Roxana Amed moved from her home in Argentina to the United States, she didn’t walk. But she might as well have. She describes her new record as being like “a bag full of songs and memories” that she collected on her way from one shore to another. She seems to stand with one foot wading in the waters of the Hudson River and the other in the Rio de la Plata. When she left Buenos Aires, she was leaving with an already established career as both a singer and so...
Ep. 131: Roxana Amed
May 15, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBWhen singer/songwriter/educator Roxana Amed moved from her home in Argentina to the United States, she didn’t walk. But she might as well have. She describes her new record as being like “a bag full of songs and memories” that she collected on her way from one shore to another. She seems to stand with one foot wading in the waters of the Hudson River and the other in the Rio de la Plata. When she left Buenos Aires, she was leaving with an already established career as both a singer and so...
192: SG Goodman
May 01, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBFor a farmer’s daughter from Western Kentucky like SG Goodman, a career as a singer-songwriter was not the obvious choice. Her family had farmed the same land for generations, and the path was laid out for her. On the other hand, coming from a long line of “some of the best storytellers who ever lived” a life spent writing and singing songs made plenty of sense. Pretty much everything out of her mouth sounds like a story to me. She says “I’ve done my best to get my heart broken during t...
191: Clyde Stubblefield
April 20, 2021 03:02 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBThere are some musicians who live in multiple universes at the same time. Clyde Stubblefield was one of those. From 1971 until his death in 2017, he lived and worked in Madison, Wisconsin. He was a local treasure, a celebrated adopted son of the midwest, and a legendary character. For those who had the chance to know him, to play with him and to see him in action, he was like a brother. At the same time, he has come to take on a kind of mythological status among funk musicians and enthusia...
190: Bob Reynolds
April 08, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBThis year musicians and creative people have had to confront themselves, their work, and their ambitions head on, and Bob Reynolds is no exception. But unlike so many of us, Bob already had some mechanisms in place to process that struggle in a creative way. Bob Reynolds is a Grammy Award-winning saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his work with Snarky Puppy, John Mayer, and 12 solo albums. He is no stranger to large stages and tour busses. At the same time, much of his career h...
Covid Chronicles Vol. 1 - Reunion Episode
March 28, 2021 17:50 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBIn March 2020, just as the world was closing under the advancing cloud of Covid 19, I spoke to a handful of musician friends from around the world to hear how they were doing and to explore some of the pressing questions around the shutdown and the arts. One year later, I check in with (almost) all of them to hear what the last year has been like for them, what were the challenges and opportunities of the first Covid year, and how they see the future. Italian singer Gege Telesforo, sax...
188: Leila Cobo
March 21, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBBefore she became a journalist, writer, novelist, television show host, and the editor of Latin music coverage for Billboard magazine, Leila Cobo played the piano. She moved from her home in Colombia to New York to study classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music. Music was her mode of transportation. Eventually she channeled her love of music and her understanding of Latin music and culture into writing, and today she’s one of the most important advocates for Latin music in America...