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Ben Sidran: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing State

by Dean Nardi
October 28, 2024

Beyond Ben Sidran's appreciable talents as an accomplished composer and performer in jazz, blues, ragtime and several other styles, he is also a highly proficient producer (Richie Cole, Phil Upchurch, Lee Konitz, Georgie Fame, Michael Franks, Rickie Lee Jones, Mose Allison), an author, podcaster, radio and television host and a historian. He was part of the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Aaron Goldberg: It's Impossible To Separate Jazz From The Civil Rights Movement

by Leo Sidran
October 24, 2024

After the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Aaron Goldberg began wondering what he could do in the next election to help make a difference. At the time, he was a 26 year old pianist only a few years out of college, but who was quickly establishing himself as a credible musical voice in the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Joy, Community And Resilience Of Lucy Kalantari

by Leo Sidran
October 17, 2024

Lucy Kalantari was a self described singer of angsty adult music, hustling her way through New York bar gigs and wondering why she wasn't more successful. She knew music was a passion early on, but she grew up in a family where becoming a professional musician was not on anybody's radar. She was raised between the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Riley Mulherkar is in pursuit of a feeling

by Leo Sidran
September 26, 2024

Riley Mulherkar grew up in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest enclave that has been home to so many musical innovators over the years. He went to Garfield High School, a school that has fostered countless talents going all the way back to Quincy Jones who was himself a young trumpet player at the school in the 1940s. ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jesse Harris takes things as they come

by Leo Sidran
September 5, 2024

Jesse Harris belongs to a generation of New York singer songwriters who came of age in the late nineties. He has made over 20 solo albums that walk the line between folk, jazz, pop, Brazilian and art rock. He's also a much sought after co writer and collaborator who has written songs for and or with ...

Article: Liner Notes

Larry Goldings and Melinda Sullivan choose to groove on Big Foot

by Leo Sidran
August 21, 2024

Sometimes what seems at first to be a departure can turn out to be a new arrival. When Larry Goldings and Melinda Sullivan met shortly before the COVID pandemic, they had no way of knowing just how impactful it would become for both of them. By 2021, they had begun meeting in Goldings' backyard to play ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ben Sidran: If You Can't Laugh At Life You're Through

by Leo Sidran
May 9, 2024

In a career spanning over fifty years and thirty five records, Ben Sidran has established himself as a philosopher poet. Equally celebrated for his precise, probing writing style as he is for his improvised spoken word jazz raps, he has carved out a truly unique space for himself. The Times of London aptly described Ben as ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Shabaka: This Is The Moment To Make Patient Music

by Leo Sidran
April 19, 2024

Shabaka Hutchings grew up between the UK and Barbados. He started playing clarinet as a young boy in Barbados and eventually moved back to England to go to music school in the early 2000s.After college he began a period of working furiously on a kaleidoscopic range of projects and became an icon of the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jose James Makes Music For 'Party And Politics'

by Leo Sidran
April 10, 2024

Singer Jose James has been a consistent and insistent musical presence ever since he released his first album, The Dreamer in 2008 on British dj Gilles Peterson's newly formed Brownswood Recordings label. Since then he's made a dozen albums, recorded for iconic record labels like Impulse! and Blue Note, and eventually formed his own label Rainbow ...

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Celebrating The Third Story at 10 with Will Lee and Amanda Sidran

by Leo Sidran
February 4, 2024

Ten years ago, on a bit of a whim, I invited bassist Will Lee to come over to my home studio in Brooklyn to do an interview with me for a new project I was starting: a podcast. A year or two earlier, my friend had turned me on to Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and I ...