Ben Sidran

Ben Sidran – Dylan Different Live In Paris At The New Morning (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:27 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Bonsaï Music

In the intro, Ben talks about Dylan.According to it, Dylan is on screen, and Ben Sidran himself is projected.Dylan is a vehicle.

That’s right, even if you play Dylan’s song (only the last 1 is different), the performance is full of enthusiasm with Ben Sidran’s masculinity coming to the fore.4 people (guitar & vocals, trumpet, bass, drums) support Ben’s vocals and piano.

Most of the songs are from Dylan Different, but I’m happy with the addition of the classic songs “Times Change” and “Love Minus Zero” (instead, Doors to Heaven, Highway 61 of Remembrance, no skinny ballads).Not only is the unique arrangement of these songs interesting, but the songs on Dylan Different are also subtly seasoned, and this live record is a masterpiece of recent Dylan cover albums.
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Ben Sidran – Who’s the Old Guy Now (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 19:58 minutes | 221 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bonsaï Music

There’s an expression “older but wiser.” I don’t know I’m any wiser but I definitely am older. And that’s the good news. There are advantages to being the Old Guy. Especially now. A developed sense of humor and a deeper historical vision come to mind.
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Ben Sidran – Picture Him Happy (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:26 minutes | 495 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bonsaï Music

“With the title track, Ben Sidran delivers one of the most insightful songs in a career full of them; in it, he rearranges the paradigm to suggest how we might buck up against situations that seem hopeless. His timing couldn’t be better. His stylistic mentor, the late Mose Allison, would be proud.” – Neil Tesser, Grammy winning author and Host of the syndicated program ‘Jazz With Neil Tesser’
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Ben Sidran – Swing State (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:55 minutes | 689 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bonsaï Music

Swing State is my first all instrumental record. I’ve done instrumentals before but this is my first piano trio project. My favorite records when I was a kid were the trios of Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons, Bud Powell, and later Sonny Clark. The piano trio format was what first excited me. So circling back sixty-some years later I wanted to feel like those musicians felt when they played. I know I can’t play like them, but I can feel like them. That’s what Swing State is.

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