# Ben Sidran
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Ben Hirsh Sidran (born August 14, 1943) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer. Early in his career he was a member of the Steve Miller Band.
== Life and career ==
Sidran was raised in Racine, Wisconsin, and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1961, where he became a member of The Ardells with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs.
Georgie Fame, Ben Sidran and the golden age of ‘60s Soho
Ben Sidran was in a teenage band with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs, a session pianist with the Stones in 1969 and carved a brilliant career as a jazz musician, producer, author and broadcaster. He’s just written ‘Cool Cat Blues’ about his old friend and collaborator Georgie Fame and the brief, lumin…
Georgie Fame, Ben Sidran and the golden age of ‘60s Soho
Ben Sidran was in a teenage band with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs, a session pianist with the Stones in 1969 and carved a brilliant career as a jazz musician, producer, author and broadcaster. He’s just written ‘Cool Cat Blues’ about his old friend and collaborator Georgie Fame and the brief, lumin…
Zeeto on WPKN - Tuesday, 7/28/26 Hour 1
Zeeto’s first hour on July 28, 2026 starts off with a reissued release from 1996 with Mose Allison, Van Morrison, Ben Sidran and Georgie Fame. Then new stuff from the Highwomen, The Punch Brothers, Renee Fleming and Bela Fleck, The Steep Canyon Rangers and more.
Any questions, comments, concerns, s…
Jazz @ 4 - Bebop & beyond - August 3
[00:00:00] 4:00 pm - Jazz @ 4 - Bebop & beyond
[00:00:02] with Edward Zeidan
[00:01:11] Patricia Barber - A Taste of Honey
[00:05:36] Gary Burton - I Need You Here
[00:15:48] Idrees Sulieman - Wee
[00:20:32] Brad Mehldau
[00:26:58] Andrew Hill - 1 Pumpkin
[00:33:49] Autumn District - Transi…
Ben Sidran at 83: “Entropy Is Inevitable, But the Antidote Is Available”
On his 83rd birthday, Ben Sidran revisits a 1974 DownBeat profile and considers what has changed - and what hasn’t - over more than half a century of music and life. In his annual birthday conversation with his son Leo, he reflects on aging, ambition, practice, and the surprising persistence of a w…
Ben Sidran at 83: A Conversation Across Time
In his annual birthday conversation with his son Leo, Ben Sidran reflects on aging, ambition, practice and the surprising persistence of a worldview formed long ago.
327: Ben Sidran at 83
For his 83rd birthday, Ben Sidran revisits a 1974 DownBeat profile (done when he was 30) and considers what has changed - and what hasn't - over more than half a century of music and life. In his annual birthday conversation with Leo, he reflects on aging, ambition, practice and the surprising pers…
Episode 51. Ben Sidran (Piano) - 'Blues in F'
Geoff is in Camden, North London to meet with the legendary jazz pianist, singer/songwriter, producer, author and renowned interviewer Ben Sidran.
A $3 school-dance gig. A teenage obsession with Horace Silver. A lifetime of paging through the fake book and letting songs teach you who you are. The c…
Ben Sidran, "Cool Cat Blues: The Life and Times of Georgie Fame"
Stu Levitan welcomes Madison’s musical Renaissance man Ben Sidran, making his fourth appearance on Madison BookBeat, to talk about his new book Cool Cat Blues: The Life and Times of Georgie Fame (Equinox).
And what a life and what times, a musical career with commercial and creative success from 1…
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