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THE THIRD STORY podcast features long-form interviews with creative people of all types, hosted by Brooklyn-based musician, Leo Sidran. 

Aug 22, 2018

I first reached out to Nate Chinen to do an interview in 2015. At that time, I knew him as the jazz critic for the New York Times and a columnist for Jazz Times, and I also loved the book he wrote with George Wein Myself Among Others. (I interviewed George a few years ago as well.)

In the intervening years, Nate...


Aug 7, 2018

Sociologist and musician Howard S. Becker is 90 years old. While he is best known for his contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art and sociology of music (his book Oustiders from 1963 was one of the first and most influential books on deviance), he also spent many of his early years playing piano in...