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Roxana Amed: Collecting Memories

by Leo Sidran
May 24, 2021

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 ...

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Grammy Winning Multi-Instrumentalist Producer, Singer-Songwriter Leo Sidran Releases 'The Art Of Conversation'

May 14, 2021

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 ...

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SG Goodman: Keep It Humble

by Leo Sidran
May 10, 2021

Singer-songwriter SG Goodman on growing up in a farming family in Western Kentucky before becoming a beacon for the progressive south, how music in many ways saved her life when she had to leave her farm life behind, and also gave her a way to honor her family's southern storytelling tradition, and how to maintain that ...

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Imogen Heap: Here come the Heapsters

by Leo Sidran
May 3, 2021

Imogen Heap has to put her daughter to bed, then she can talk about what she's been working on. She can tell you about her latest single, “Last Night Of An Empire" which she released on December 9th. Coincidentally, that's also the day she launched The Creative Passport, a verified digital ID for Music Makers. In ...

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Reflections on Clyde Stubblefield

by Leo Sidran
April 26, 2021

Reflections on the life and legacy of Clyde Stubblefield, often called the world's most sampled drummer or “the original funky drummer," on the occasion of what would have been his 78th birthday. Including interviews and live recordings with him going back to 1972. This episode features conversations with Clyde and Ben Sidran, anecdotes about ...

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Leila Cobo: Decoding Despacito

by Leo Sidran
April 19, 2021

Before she became a journalist, writer, novelist, television show host, and the editor of Latin music coverage for Billboard magazine, Leila Cobo played the piano. She moved from her home in Colombia to New York to study classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music. Music was her mode of transportation.Eventually she channeled her ...

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Bob Reynolds: Running The Changes

by Leo Sidran
April 12, 2021

This year musicians and creative people have had to confront themselves, their work, and their ambitions head on, and Bob Reynolds is no exception. But unlike so many of us, Bob already had some mechanisms in place to process that struggle in a creative way. Bob is a Grammy Award-winning saxophonist, composer, and educator known for ...

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Boz Scaggs: It's Like Magic, What We Do

by Leo Sidran
April 5, 2021

Just hearing the name Boz Scaggs evokes a feeling. It's a hip, laid back, soulful, approachable feeling. It's a southern thing. But it's a San Francisco thing too. He is, as his most recent record proclaims, Out Of the Blues. But he's played his share of rock and roll, r&b, and even jazz too.

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Covid Chronicles, Vol. 1: Reunion Episode

by Leo Sidran
March 29, 2021

In March 2020, just as the world was closing under the advancing cloud of Covid 19, I spoke to a handful of musician friends from around the world to hear how they were doing and to explore some of the pressing questions around the shutdown and the arts.One year later, I check in with ...

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Eric Harland: Time is a joint effort

by Leo Sidran
February 15, 2021

Drummer Eric Harland tells his incredible story of growing up in Houston and how he came to weigh 400lbs by the time he was 16 (he eventually lost the weight in college), attending the Manhattan School of Music, becoming an ordained minister, living with singer Betty Carter during the last year of her life, learning from ...