The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
The Sharp Notes is a conversation podcast exploring music, sound, and the craft behind the records we love. Host Evan Toth speaks with musicians, producers, and industry voices about the art of listening and the stories pressed into every groove.
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
Latest Episodes
Live and In the Sharp Notes Shop | Nabil Ayers: Sunshine, Sound, and the Stories We Inherit
Tonight we’re very pleased to welcome Nabil Ayers: a writer, podcaster, record store co-founder, label executive, musician and someone whose life and work sit directly at the crossroads of music, identity, memory, and family.Nabil is the...
Richard Foos on Rhino Records, Reissue Culture, and the Record Store That Started It All
Rhino Records began the way so many great record stories begin: with a little bit of money, a lot of taste, and a store full of people who believe that - above it all - it’s the music that matters.In this episode we speak with Richard Fo...
Arturo Sandoval on Sangú, Freedom, and the Sound of Home
Arturo Sandoval has lived several musical lives: Cuban-born trumpet virtuoso, Afro-Cuban jazz pioneer, Dizzy Gillespie protégé, composer, bandleader, and one of the most decorated musicians of his generation. He is a multiple Grammy winner, a G...
Grover Biery on The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and the Search for Three-Dimensional Mono
Today, we return to one of the most discussed albums in pop history: The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.Nearly 60 years after Brian Wilson assembled its world of harmonies, longing, bass lines, sound effects, and impossible emotional detail, Int...
Alan Braufman on Anthem for Peace and the Legacy of Valley of Search
What does it mean for a musician to be free?Not free as a slogan, or a genre label, but truly free: free to search, free to return, free to follow a sound across a lifetime.Alan Braufman has been asking that question, in one form ...
