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George Wein at 90 (from 2015)
by Leo Sidran
George Wein opened his first jazz club, Storyville, in the early 1950s when he was a young man. He then created the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954. The festival became an icon among music festivals and influenced the way music was presented around the world. I spoke to George just before he turned 90, in 2015. ...
Antwaun Stanley: A Constant Process Of Discovery
by Leo Sidran
By the time Antwaun Stanley entered the University of Michigan in the late aughts, he was already 15 years into a successful singing career. He was signed as a contemporary gospel artist, had made the rounds on TV shows and singing contests, had been through a series of managers, producers and handlers who all recognized the ...
Ben Sidran at 78: This is the other side
by Leo Sidran
For the third year in a row, I talked to musician/producer/journalist/philosopher Ben Sidran (my father) in honor of his birthday. This time he's turning 78, and we consider the “buddhist roots of jazz," joy and pain, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, the wisdom of Phil Woods, the final recordings of Lester Young, saxophonist Willis Jackson's 1978 ...
Jon Lampley: Get In Where You Fit In
by Leo Sidran
Jon Lampley knows how to “get in where you fit in." He's been doing it since he was a boy in an Ohio suburb, spending his week as “the only black kid at school" and his Sundays at Apostolic church in Akron, learning to play gospel music and call the spirit down. He also ...
The Art of Conversation
Featuring the music of Leo Sidran
Duration: 4:22
Julian Lage: Notes With The Weight Of Words
by Leo Sidran
When Julian Lage plays guitar, it's hard not to get swept up in it. His relationship with the instrument is natural and contagious. Maybe that's because it's been with him for most of his life. When he was just 8 years old, Julian was the subject of an Academy Award nominated documentary film called Jules at ...
Melanie Charles, Leo Sidran, Irène Schweizer, Ofentse Moses Sebula & Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Leo Sidran and Kat Edmonson's latest single introduce the Art of Conversation in jazz. Irène Schweizer & Hamid Drake, and Javier Santiago & Melanie Charles continue it as a dialogue; Keith Brown and Garage a Trois as a trialougue; Dina Ramirez, Roberto Negro, Erik Fratzke as a quadralogue; Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Makram Aboul Hosn, Ofentse Moses Sebula ...
Roxana Amed: Collecting Memories
by Leo Sidran
When singer/songwriter/educator Roxana Amed moved from her home in Argentina to the United States, she didn't walk. But she might as well have. She describes her new record as being like “a bag full of songs and memories" that she collected on her way from one shore to another. She seems to stand with one foot ...
Grammy Winning Multi-Instrumentalist Producer, Singer-Songwriter Leo Sidran Releases 'The Art Of Conversation'
When Grammy winning multi-instrumentalist producer, singer-songwriter Leo Sidran wrote the song “Trying Times” in early 2020, he had no idea just how prescient it would turn out to be. The song, like Leo himself, sat somewhere between jazz, singer-songwriter, and pop music, and spoke simply to the complexity of the moment: “You have to laugh just ...
