The Song Inside

We continue our Trombone Month celebration with the hardest working trombonist in show business, Brian Drye! Come and listen to us geek out about the trombone, discuss the choreography of recording, marvel at the glue of ostinato, and learn about giving it your all on Broadway every night.

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Songs:

Hawaii

Open Water

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People! It is time to celebrate THE TROMBONE! All! Month! Long! Starting with Alan Ferber, co-director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop and all-around talent. Join us as we talk about community through music, the beauty of a nonet, the importance of economy, and harmony as cake. (Great, now I'm hungry).  

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Songs:

The River

North Rampart

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Leah Paul is a sweet potato who runs a music business for kids called Sweet Potato Music! She also lives in LA, is a mom, plays the flute, and writes the coolest chamber pop tunes you've ever heard. We talk about pivoting after motherhood, treating vocals like flutes, finding home, and not waiting for happiness. 

Songs:

Warm Streets

Thin Skinned

We Will Do The Worrying

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Brazilian composer, singer, lyricist and percussionist Luciana Souza is a light in the darkness. In this conversation, we revisit our younger selves, call our friend (and Sunnyside producer) Francois live with a birthday message, reminisce about Cornelia Street Cafe, and explore the freedom of harmony and the gestures of melody.  

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Songs:

Sonnet

Sleeping Ground

These Things

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Singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche comes from a musical family. She also has a very amenable dog, and a voice like a damn angel. Join us as we talk about going to Wikipedia for song ideas, the dark tundra of not writing, how a song can be anything, and how life on the road is definitely funnier with a companion!

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Songs:

Ohio is for Lovers

Canterbury Song

A Quiet Line

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Happy International Women's Month from The Song Inside! To kick things off, Spanish songstress Lara Bello (a fellow Carnegie Hall Lullaby Artist), joins me to explore the feelings inside the melody, the importance of introducing new cultures and languages to audiences, how to open our arms to new fruit, and just what the heck the meaning of Sikame is. 

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Songs:

Sola

Sikame

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Django Haskins calls in from his North Carolina cabin to talk about the discipline of Monday Night Song Group, musical and narrative dissonance, why proficiency shouldn't get in the way of being authentic, and the importance of lifting others up. 

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Songs

state road valentine

Cutting Onions

Til My Voice is Gone

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Pianist/Composer Brittany Anjou recently completed a Masters in Music Psychology and has done research on the mental health of musicians living in NYC.  Join us for an intellectually stimulating conversation! Brittany tells me about hosting avant-garde jams in Kuwait before we move on to discuss jazz as a democratic art form, embracing opportunities to fail, and the eternal conflict between teaching and playing. 

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Songs:

Starlight

No Tyrant

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What do Tribe Called Quest and the Love Boat have in common? What did Stravinsky say to do daily, as if brushing one's teeth? Find out in this interview with master composer and saxophonist Ohad Talmor! We talk about his lifelong relationship with Lee Konitz, the importance of buying the scores, the purpose of etudes, and the responsibility of artists.

Songs

Flight to Missoula

Etude #2

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If you were in a Manhattan hotel 25 years ago, or a German castle recently, you may have heard Robin Meloy Goldsby tinkling the ivories, and not even known it. Her latest book, Piano Girl Playbook: Notes on a Musical Life, captures what it's like to play for all kinds of people in all kinds of places, and still find music at the heart of things. We talk about her storied life (played at Buckingham Palace? Check! Played for naked folks while wearing a concert gown? Done that!), the intentions of the composer, Mr. Rogers, and putting the work in.

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Songs 

Flying, Falling

December

Neighbor

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