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The Vision of Raul Midón

by Leo Sidran
April 11, 2025

Raul Midón is a man who sees with sound. Blind since infancy, he has made a life--and a formidable body of work--guided by his ears, his intuition, and his insistence on carving his own path. To speak with Raul is to be reminded that perception is far more than a function of the eyes. ...

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Nels Cline: The Shape of Sound

by Leo Sidran
March 20, 2025

For nearly two decades, Nels Cline has been best known as the mercurial, shape-shifting guitarist of Wilco, a role that has introduced his name to legions of fans and placed him at the center of a beloved and influential American band. But to reduce Cline's career to his work with Wilco would be to miss the ...

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Conversations Across Time: Makaya McCraven, Beat Scientist

by Leo Sidran
January 30, 2025

Makaya McCraven is a drummer, producer, and composer who has carved out a unique space in contemporary music as a self-proclaimed “beat scientist." His work blurs the lines between live performance and production, drawing on a broad range of influences from jazz, hip hop, and global traditions. Known for his improvisational prowess and innovative approach to ...

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Jacob Collier's First Interview: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by Leo Sidran
January 7, 2025

In 2013, after having posted a series of videos recorded in his family home in North London of himself singing a cappella arrangements of classic--yet sometimes obscure--songs on YouTube, a critical mass began to form around Jacob Collier. His videos of Stevie Wonder's “Isn't She Lovely" and “Don't You Worry Bout A Thing" were passed around ...

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Conversations with Aaron Parks and Marta Sanchez

by Leo Sidran
December 29, 2024

To close out the season, here are two compelling and complementary conversations with pianists Aaron Parks and Marta Sanchez. Each of their stories is deeply personal, and yet their experiences echo one another beautifully.I interviewed Aaron Parks last January at Winter Jazzfest in New York City, just a few days before he made the ...

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Samora Pinderhughes And Jack Deboe: Patience Is Extremely Freeing

by Leo Sidran
December 26, 2024

Despite their long standing collaborative relationship, composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes and drummer/producer Jack Deboe had never done an interview together before. Samora's music has a certain gravity to it. It deals with weighty, often difficult themes: incarceration, mental health, structural violence. His work asks us to reckon with uncomfortable ...

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Life Comes In: Maria Schneider Celebrates 30 Years

by Leo Sidran
November 21, 2024

As she celebrates 30 years of running a band, composing and recording work and touring, Maria Schneider is considering her trajectory, and going through something that may or not be a crisis. She says, “I'm looking at my life and just saying 'ok, what's next?'" In 1994, Schneider released her first album Evanescence and ...

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Chop Wood And Carry Water: Ben And Leo Sidran On The Election

by Leo Sidran
November 14, 2024

When everything you thought you knew turns out to be mistaken, when your compatriots let you down, when your neighborhood is on fire and your friends are drowning, when even Quincy Jones decides he's checking out, it helps to have someone to talk to, to help make sense of it all. For me, it's ...

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Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...

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Speaking in tongues with Andrew Bird

by Leo Sidran
November 3, 2024

Andrew Bird has been searching for meaning in sound since he was a young boy growing up outside of Chicago, learning to play violin. He got a degree in violin performance from Northwestern University in 1996, and although his college training set him up for a career in music, it also disoriented him. He was at ...