Results for "Leo Sidran"

Steven Bernstein, Peter Apfelbaum and Will Bernard: From the East Bay to the Avant Garde

by Leo Sidran
January 20, 2020

Steven Bernstein, Peter Apfelbaum and Will Bernard on looking forward, looking back, the musical concept of opposition, defying category, broken mirrors, free improvisation, why coffee is so expensive and music is so cheap, the musical conversation between Berkeley and New York, spontaneous composition, rock and roll, Jewish weddings, Sly Stone, Bill Laswell, Trey Anastasio, and why ...

Zev Feldman: The Jazz Detective Speaks

by Leo Sidran
December 17, 2019

In this podcast conversation, record producer Zev Feldman explains how he got started in the jazz business as a young man (in his early 20s) and came up through the ranks of sales ("schlepping a bag of CDs"), merchandising, marketing, distribution -all of the pieces of the business as it existed at the end of the ...

ALA.NI on preserving the present moment in music

by Leo Sidran
November 18, 2019

In this podcast interview, singer-songwriter ALA.NI talks about job of the artist ("to see the world through a different lens and then share that experience"), why she moved to France ("I feel seen here"), improvised circle singing ("when we enter back into the child and the imagination, there's no rules!") and the genetic memory of violence ...

Camila Meza on the nature of translation, improvisation & self observation

by Leo Sidran
November 7, 2019

Ben Sidran at Dazzle

by Geoff Anderson
November 3, 2019

Ben Sidran Dazzle Denver, CO October 23, 2019 Ben Sidran is a quadruple threat. Many great musicians claim the trifecta of vocals, instrumental chops and songwriting. Sidran has all those. On top of all that, Sidran adds philosophizing. Or maybe it's storytelling. Or maybe both of those things. Wednesday night, Sidran ...

Chris Potter: What Influences the Influencer?

by Leo Sidran
September 8, 2019

Chris Potter is a supremely influential saxophonist. Downbeat Magazine has called him “one of the most studied (and copied) saxophonists on the planet." In this introspective and philosophical podcast conversation he talks about art, the search for something new, what motivates him today, what he sees as his role, responsibility and contribution to the history of ...

Ben Sidran on 50 years in jazz

by Leo Sidran
August 19, 2019

In this podcast, the multifaceted Ben Sidran (my dad) on his 76th birthday, talks about on falling in love with bebop as a young boy, counter culture in the 1960s, jazz as a form of journalism, how to get paid like a musician, his proudest moments, writing a misunderstood rock and roll anthem, getting to Carnegie ...

Donald Fagen On The Past, Present And Future

by Leo Sidran
August 5, 2019

Donald Fagen on what's so punk about Steely Dan, what's so sweet about bebop, why making his first solo record, The Nightfly was so personally disruptive to him, when he decided to finally grow up, and who he never wants to see again. Plus, behind the scenes stories of making Gaucho, his relationship with Walter Becker, ...

Guitarist Lage Lund on how musicians communicate

by Leo Sidran
June 15, 2019

Rick Margitza on choosing the right note

by Leo Sidran
June 5, 2019