How Have I Never Heard of Ben Sidran?

[Teasing the Korean]

Listening now to "Feel Your Groove" from 1971.  Totally digging every track. 

[Late]

Sidran is an anagram for Nardis.

[Ken Dryden]

 

1 hour ago, Late said:

Sidran is an anagram for Nardis.

I remember Sidran pointing that out in a broadcast. I also remember his book of interview transcriptions, with Denny Zeitlin spelled Denny Zeitland throughout the hardback edition. I guess he didn't have any time or interest in reading the galley proofs...

Edited March 18, 2022 by Ken Dryden

[JSngry]

How have you never heard of Ben Sidran?

If you age is around where you've indicated it is...hell if I know. The dude was ubiquitous there for a while 

 

Oh: 

 

[Chuck Nessa]

I knew Ben back in the early '70s, in Madison, where we both lived. Now we are friends on FB.

Edited March 18, 2022 by Chuck Nessa

[felser]

I know him mainly from the early Steve Miller Band albums, but he did a lot beyond that.

 

[JSngry]

Here is how to connect Steve Miller to Andrew Hill.

[medjuck]

IIRC (and I often don't) he was on a Mose Allison tribute record along with Georgie Fame and Van Morrison. 

[bertrand]

Are people still hung up on this Nardis thing? The title has nothing to do with Ben Sidran.

[Ken Dryden]

46 minutes ago, bertrand said:

Are people still hung up on this Nardis thing? The title has nothing to do with Ben Sidran.

 

46 minutes ago, bertrand said:

Are people still hung up on this Nardis thing? The title has nothing to do with Ben Sidran.

Of course it doesn’t, it was written before anybody heard of Ben Sidran.

[Gheorghe]

Had to google him.

But if anyone had played with Diz, with Griffin, with Manhattan Transfer and with the Brecker Brothers ... he must be hot

[mhatta]

I'm not really familiar with Ben Sidran's oeuvre, but this one is pretty cool...JG's blowing too.

 

1 hour ago, bertrand said:

Are people still hung up on this Nardis thing? The title has nothing to do with Ben Sidran.

 

 

I don't remember where,  but I read somewhere that Sidran asked about Sidran/Nardis to Miles himself and Miles was quite surprised and amused (but obviously it's just a coincidence).

Edited March 18, 2022 by mhatta

[tranemonk]

How come no one has mentioned his Talking Jazz interviews? That's actually how I learned about him. Loved that series. Guess it's available below...

https://talkingjazz.bandcamp.com

[mikeweil]

That's a very nice book they made from these interviews!

 

[Rooster_Ties]

26 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

That's a very nice book they made from these interviews!

That’s how I first became aware of Sidran, back in my college days. Not really sure I’d ever heard his name before that.

Come to think, I can’t swear if I’ve even seen one album of his while CD shopping — though I’ve seen a few here and there in the LP bins (but most of my buying focus as always been CD’s, at least since I’d gotten into jazz).

Didn’t he close his interview with Miles asking about “Nardis” and his own name?

[JSngry]

First Edition 1971

Not everybody liked it!

but some did

 

wtc.

[Dan Gould]

I encountered Ben Sidran first on VH1, back when they kinda/sorta programmed some jazz-dedicated programs(?). Perhaps it was BET instead. He struck me as a pre-Kramer hipster doofus and I am sure it effected my interest in the rest of his oeuvre. 

[clifford_thornton]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

First Edition 1971

Not everybody liked it!

but some did

 

wtc.

yeah, that's where I first became aware of him.

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

 

My brother has this book!

This track is killer:

So is this one:

 

Edited March 18, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[bertrand]

15 hours ago, mhatta said:

I'm not really familiar with Ben Sidran's oeuvre, but this one is pretty cool...JG's blowing too.

 

I don't remember where,  but I read somewhere that Sidran asked about Sidran/Nardis to Miles himself and Miles was quite surprised and amused (but obviously it's just a coincidence).

It was in the Talking Jazz interview.

16 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

 

Of course it doesn’t, it was written before anybody heard of Ben Sidran.

And yet I was at a gig the other day where they played Nardis and announced in all seriousness that it was written for Sidran.

[Teasing the Korean]

That B sus 9 chord before the Bb minor 7!

Edited March 19, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[JSngry]

He sings like an untrained Michael Franks.

[Teasing the Korean]

7 minutes ago, JSngry said:

He sings like an untrained Michael Franks.

Don't know Michael Franks.  I was picking up on Mose Allison.

[jlhoots]

1 minute ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Don't know Michael Franks.  I was picking up on Mose Allison.

Popsicle Toes

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Just now, jlhoots said:

Popsicle Toes

That sounds pervy,