The Third Story podcast features long-form interviews with musicians and members of the creative class, hosted by me, Leo Sidran.
Their stories of discovery, loss, ambition, identity, improvisation, risk, and reward are deeply moving and compelling for all of us as we embark on our own creative journeys.
Most recent episode: dodie
Leo Sidran (photo by Tom Warburton)
Fifty years ago, an 18-year-old concert German promoter named Vera Brandes helped make one of the most iconic nights in jazz history possible - Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert. Here Vera shares the unbelievable true story behind that night, and the new film Köln 75 that brings it to life.
Singer songwriter Jacob Jeffries on being an emerging artist after 20 years in the business. A conversation about loss, collaboration, and finding yourself again through music. Plus, working with Vulfpeck and his new album You Got The Right Idea.
Spanish actress and singer Leonor Watling is best known internationally for her role in Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her, but she has also built a long parallel career in music as the frontwoman of the band Marlango, releasing seven albums and touring the world.
Here she talks about her life between cultures—born in Madrid to a Spanish father and an English mother raised in Africa—her early awareness of mortality, her rise to fame on television and film, and her years balancing music, acting, and motherhood, and her latest project, LEO & LEO.
Singer-songwriter dodie on growing up online, setting boundaries, mental health, and finding peace in her new album Not For Lack of Trying.