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Strung Beats, Jazz Battles & The Notes You Don't Play
The Strong Songs mailbag has gotten pretty overstuffed lately, so Kirk decided to take another crack at it. That means it's time for more of your musical questions!
Explaining Musicals, with Lindsay Ellis
If an emotion is too big for talking, you sing. If it's too big for singing, you dance. And if it's too big for dancing, well, you just gotta podcast!
Sidechain Compression & Saxophone Traffic Cones
Kirk peruses the Strong Songs inbox to answer your questions about jazz drum solos, practicing with play-a-longs, Tame Impala tunes, saxophones with traffic cones, vocal technique, sidechain compression, and several...
"Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson
Jazz is all about the contrast between the individual and the collective, and few recordings embody that as beautifully as "Stolen Moments."
"Cameo Lover" by Kimbra
Open up your heart! Open up your heart! Open up your heart, let Kimbra pull you out! On this episode, Kirk goes for a swim in the extra-buoyant waters of...
The Mysteries of Music, with Carmen Staaf
What's this? An off-week episode of Strong Songs?? Indeed it is! For this episode of Strong Conversations (working title), Kirk hopped on a call with New York pianist Carmen Staaf...
"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush
Heathcliff! It's us, it's Strong Songs, we've come home!
Cross-Rhythms, Concept Albums & Dream Songs
Time for the first Q&A episode of Strong Songs year three!
"Babylon Sisters" by Steely Dan
Here comes that Santa Ana wind again, blowing us right into the slightly skewed world of Steely Dan.
"Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap
Where are we? What the hell is going on? Oh right, we're here with our podcast device, listening to an episode of Strong Songs.