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Leo Sidran

New York
As seen in: The Third Story with Leo Sidran, Substack, Flipboard, All About Jazz, WBGO-FM (Newark, NJ), Concert Monkey, NextByte1
Midwestern expat, musician, producer, composer, practitioner, schmooze artist, conversationalist. Host of the Third Story Podcast - third-story.com.
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Thoughts on the Week: Paris May Be Over (But I'm Not Over Paris)

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By Leo Sidran
| Substack
I think most musicians and creative people recognize the feeling of falling on deaf ears, but this was less of an existential problem and more of an acoustical one. The street was simply too noisy to have a conversation. Mostly I blame the strip club across the street. The entertainment had spilled out onto the terrace and into the street itself. A buff, hairless, mostly naked man wrapped in an American flag was making his way from table to table, grinding enthusiastically on tourists.
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Miles Davis: “Geniuses are selfish”

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By Leo Sidran
| Flipboard
12 hours ago An icon, an iconoclast: Both terms apply equally to Miles Davis, who was born a century ago, on May 26, 1926. If that sounds like a paradox, it's just one among many in the life and career of this trumpeter, bandleader and composer, who looms as large in the popular imagination as any jazz artist …
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Julieta Venegas Has A Good Memory

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By Leo Sidran
| All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Radio & Podcasts » Julieta Venegas Has A Good Memory By View read count Click the play button to listen Julieta Venegas grew up in Tijuana, a city that sits at Mexico's northwestern edge and the United States' southwestern edge. Maybe it makes sense that someone raised in a city suspended between identities would resist fixed categories herself. Julieta Venegas has spent much of her career moving fluidly between musical worlds.
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