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
Anthony Mason on Alchemy and the Art of the Interview
There are interviewers who ask questions, and then there are interviewers who understand that the question is only a doorway to something bigger.Anthony Mason has spent decades walking through those doorways for CBS News, sitting across ...
Soft Palms Interview: IN ECHO, Black Glitter Vinyl, and the DIY Music Business
There’s a particular kind of band that doesn’t just make records; they build a whole working language around the survival of their career including community, self-reliance, all betwixt the strange weather of modern life. Soft Palms — the Long ...
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...
