Sidran, Ben

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	A Little Kiss In The Night Sealed - Vinyl - AB 4178 Sealed 1978 Original. Cut Corner. Features Phil Woods, Blue Mitchell, David Woodford And Others. 4 Stars On All Music Guide. more
	A Little Kiss In The Night Used - Vinyl - AB 4178 1978 Original. Cut Corner. Features Phil Woods, Blue Mitchell, David Woodford And Others. 4 Stars On All Music Guide. more
	Bop City Used - Vinyl - AN 1012 1983 US Original. Hint Of Ring Wear On Rear Cover. Stellar Line Up Featuring Phil Woods, Eddie Gomez, Steve Khan, Mike Mainieri And Peter Erskine. Great Sound And Superb Jazz. A Perennial Favorite With British Audiophiles. Top Recommendation! more
	Bop City New - Vinyl - AN 1012 Sealed 1983 Original Featuring Phil Woods, Eddie Gomez, Steve Khan, Mike Mainieri And Peter Erskine. Great Sound And Superb Jazz. A Perennial Favorite With British Audiophiles. Top Recommendation! Small CC. more
	Bop City Used - Vinyl - AN 1012 1983 Original Featuring Phil Woods, Eddie Gomez, Steve Khan, Mike Mainieri And Peter Erskine. Great Sound And Superb Jazz. A Perennial Favorite With British Audiophiles. Top Recommendation! more
	Don't Let Go Used - Vinyl - YW-8040-AU 1978 Japanese Pressing. Includes "Fat Jam," "Funky Elephant," "Snatch" And More. Features Phil Upchurch, Bunky Green And Others. more
	Don't Let Go New - Vinyl - BTS 6012 Sealed 1974 Original. Includes "Fat Jam," "Funky Elephant," "Snatch" And More. Features Phil Upchurch, Bunky Green And Others. Cut Corner And Cut Out Hole. more
	Don't Let Go Used - Vinyl - BTS 6012 1974 US original Santa Maria pressing. VG++ copy. Includes "Fat Jam," "Funky Elephant," "Snatch" and more. Features Phil Upchurch, Bunky Green among others. "Issued by Blue Thumb in 1974, Don't Let Go was Ben Sidran's third for the label, and his fourth overall. After his 1971 debut on Capitol, Feel Your Groove -- a rootsy, bluesy, and jazzy rock record, populated by everyone from Peter Frampton to Jesse Ed Davis -- Sidran began to indulge his jazz muse, and by 1974 the transformation was complete; he fit right in with Blue Thumb's funky, wide-reaching jazz, funk, fusion, and whatever-else-comes-down-the-pipe-that's-interesting philosophy. After all, this was the label that had issued recordings by Phil Upchurch, Luis Gasca, Mark-Almond, Ike & Tina Turner, the Crusaders, Sun Ra, Dan Hicks, the Last Poets, the Pointer Sisters, Paul Humphrey, Captain Beefheart, and Robbie Basho, among others. The players surrounding Sidran on this session are stellar; some of them had been recording with him since his second album, I Lead a Life. The players here include Upchurch, Clyde Stubblefield, Bunky Green, Sonny Seals (the saxophonist), Tom Piazza, James Curly Cooke, and Randy Fullerton. Musically, the material walks a thin line between funky and straighter jazz and pop with an equal division between vocal and instrumental numbers over its 12 tracks. Sidran was establishing himself as a serious pianist and intricate composer, and as a songwriter with Mose Allison's sophisticated sense of irony. The set opens with the killer, funked up instrumental "Fat Jam" composed by Cooke. One can hear traces of the Bill Cosby television show in Cooke's lyric line, but with its killer shimmering cymbal work, breaks, and the low-slung yet taut bassline, it's something else, too. When Sidran's Rhodes piano kicks into high gear with the Sonny Burke-arranged horns it becomes a smoking intro to a record that, in spite of its wide-ranging ambition, succeeds on virtually every level. Being pushed to this sense of hot groove, Sidran changes up on his cover of the roadhouse standard "House of Blue Lights." It starts with a spoken word hipster rant that abruptly shifts into a fine nearly spoken read of the boogie-woogie crazy original. Sidran's pianism is red hot and rooted in the Albert Ammons stride, and the rhythm section lights it up when he goes into a solo that moves right into bebop. Given how dizzy the proceeding is, this is only the beginning; as it turns out, Don't Let Go contains some of Sidran's most memorable songs, including the darkly cool "Ben Sidran's Midnite Tango," with a fine string arrangement that outdoes Michael Franks at his own game. There is also the slow strutting jazz shuffle "She's Funny That Way" and the proto-uptown soul stepper "Hey Hey Baby." Of the instrumentals, the low-key funky jazz of "The Chicken Glide," and the now infamous "Snatch" are the highlights, but these are all terrific. Don't Let Go only made it onto CD in Japan, but that shouldn't stop you from scoring a legal download digitally or from Verve's out-of-print online store. This is a killer, adventurous record from a magical time that doesn't sound a bit dated in the 21st century." All Music Guide - Thom Jurek more
	Feel You Groove Used - Vinyl - ST 825 Extremely Rare 1971 Original W / Blue Mitchell, Peter Frampton, Boz Scaggs, Credibility Gap - Looks Unplayed. more
	Free In America Sealed - Vinyl - AL 4081 Sealed 1976 Original. Cut Out Hole. “Free In America Is Ben Sidran's Fifth Album Overall And His Debut For Arista Records, And Showcases Him Moving To An Even More Eclectic Margin Where The Lines Between Jazz -- Contemporary And Classic -- Blue-Eyed Soul, And Sophisticated Pop Begin To Blur Into One Another. He Had Long Established Himself As An Eclectic Songwriter And Interpreter, But Here, Cramming So Many Different Types Of Songs Onto A Single Album Was, Depending On Your Point Of View, Either The Work Of A Visionary, Or An Egotistical Exercise In Excess For Its Own Sake. Time Bears The Truth: It Was The Former. All Of It Comes Together In A Jarring But Seamless Whole That Juxtapose Louis Prima's "Sunday Kind Of Love," Billy Joel's "New York State Of Mind," Reggie Hall And Joe Jones' R&B Classic "You Talk Too Much," J.J. Cale's "After Midnight," And Some Of Sidran's Most Memorable Originals. As Usual, Sidran Hired Brilliant Studio Players To Realize This Difficult Undertaking: The Brecker Brothers, Phil Upchurch, Sonny Seals, Woody Shaw, James Cooke, Bill Meeker, David "Fathead" Newman, Richard Tee, Gary Zappa, And Henry Gibson All Make Appearances…..Highlights Include The Hall-Jones Number. That Song Is Commonly Associated With Clarence Carter And Earlier Frankie Ford, But Sidran's Version Was Adapted Form An Obscure Latin Boogaloo Single By Javier Batiz In The Mid-'60s. As If To Underscore That, Sidran Follows It With One Of His Greatest Instrumentals, The Bubbling Cooker "The Cuban Connection," That Marries Afro-Cuban Jazz To Horace Silver, Rock, And Post-Bop. The Version Of "After Midnight" Is Darker, Steamier, Funkier, And Far More Nocturnal Than Eric Clapton's. The Backing Vocals Add A Raw Sensuality To The Track That Is Absent From All Other Versions. "New York State Of Mind," Is As Convincing -- And Less Nostalgic -- Than Its Composers, And Includes A Killer Trumpet Solo By Woody Shaw. Finally Sidran's Bookend Cuts, "Feel Your Groove," (A Redo Of The Title Track From His First Album), And The Title Cut From This Set, Offer His Wildly Original Lyric Conceptions As The Ultimate Urban Hipster Romantic Who Looks At Everything With A Cool, Detached Comedic Eye, Even Though His Heart Is On Fire With A Lust For The Totality Of Experience. The Disco Horn Section In The Track Extrapolates A Familiar Elton John Chorus And Turns It Into Something More Sophisticated, Closer To The Street, And More Desirable. Time Has Been Kind To Most Of Sidran's Catalog: Free In America Is One Of Its Shining Entries.” All Music Guide – Thom Jurek more
	Free In America Sealed - Vinyl - AL 4081 Sealed 1976 Original. Saw Cut. “Free In America Is Ben Sidran's Fifth Album Overall And His Debut For Arista Records, And Showcases Him Moving To An Even More Eclectic Margin Where The Lines Between Jazz -- Contemporary And Classic -- Blue-Eyed Soul, And Sophisticated Pop Begin To Blur Into One Another. He Had Long Established Himself As An Eclectic Songwriter And Interpreter, But Here, Cramming So Many Different Types Of Songs Onto A Single Album Was, Depending On Your Point Of View, Either The Work Of A Visionary, Or An Egotistical Exercise In Excess For Its Own Sake. Time Bears The Truth: It Was The Former. All Of It Comes Together In A Jarring But Seamless Whole That Juxtapose Louis Prima's "Sunday Kind Of Love," Billy Joel's "New York State Of Mind," Reggie Hall And Joe Jones' R&B Classic "You Talk Too Much," J.J. Cale's "After Midnight," And Some Of Sidran's Most Memorable Originals. As Usual, Sidran Hired Brilliant Studio Players To Realize This Difficult Undertaking: The Brecker Brothers, Phil Upchurch, Sonny Seals, Woody Shaw, James Cooke, Bill Meeker, David "Fathead" Newman, Richard Tee, Gary Zappa, And Henry Gibson All Make Appearances…..Highlights Include The Hall-Jones Number. That Song Is Commonly Associated With Clarence Carter And Earlier Frankie Ford, But Sidran's Version Was Adapted Form An Obscure Latin Boogaloo Single By Javier Batiz In The Mid-'60s. As If To Underscore That, Sidran Follows It With One Of His Greatest Instrumentals, The Bubbling Cooker "The Cuban Connection," That Marries Afro-Cuban Jazz To Horace Silver, Rock, And Post-Bop. The Version Of "After Midnight" Is Darker, Steamier, Funkier, And Far More Nocturnal Than Eric Clapton's. The Backing Vocals Add A Raw Sensuality To The Track That Is Absent From All Other Versions. "New York State Of Mind," Is As Convincing -- And Less Nostalgic -- Than Its Composers, And Includes A Killer Trumpet Solo By Woody Shaw. Finally Sidran's Bookend Cuts, "Feel Your Groove," (A Redo Of The Title Track From His First Album), And The Title Cut From This Set, Offer His Wildly Original Lyric Conceptions As The Ultimate Urban Hipster Romantic Who Looks At Everything With A Cool, Detached Comedic Eye, Even Though His Heart Is On Fire With A Lust For The Totality Of Experience. The Disco Horn Section In The Track Extrapolates A Familiar Elton John Chorus And Turns It Into Something More Sophisticated, Closer To The Street, And More Desirable. Time Has Been Kind To Most Of Sidran's Catalog: Free In America Is One Of Its Shining Entries.” All Music Guide – Thom Jurek more
	I Lead A Life Used - Vinyl - BTS 40 Beautiful 1972 Gatefold Original Still In Shrink Wrap. Features Phil Upchurch, Clyde Stubblefield, Jim Gordon And Others. Appears Unplayed. CC. more
	Live At Montreux Sealed - Vinyl - AB 4218 Sealed 1978 Original. Cut Corner. Unable To Confirm The Exact Label. Features The Brecker Brothers And Steve Khan. more
	Lover Man Used Import - 28AP 3003 1984 Japan Only Original, Cut Corner, No Obi. more
	Mr. P’s Shuffle New - CD - UDCD 688 24kt Gold. more
	New Wave Bebop Used Import - KUX-162-B 1981 Japan Only Original With Obi. Ben Sidran Piano & Vocals; Richie Cole, Alto Sax; Marcus Miller, Bass; Buddy Williams, Drums; Bob Malach, Tenor Sax; Jerry Alexander, Background Vocal. more
	New Wave Bebop Used Import - KUX-162-B 1981 Japanese Pressing With Cat. Number Variation; No Obi But Has Insert. Glossy, Nm- Vinyl. Features Marcus Miller, Buddy Williams And Bob Malach. more
	Old Songs For The New Depression Used - Vinyl - AN 1004 1982 Original Pressed On Quiex Virgin Vinyl, CC. Features Marcus Miller, Richie Cole And Others. more
	On The Cool Side Used - Vinyl - MA 0204 1985 Original. Small Saw Cut. Mastered By George Marino At Sterling Sound. Appears Glossy, Unplayed. more
	On The Live Side New - Vinyl - MA 0206 Sealed 1986 Original. Features Phil Woods, Steve Miller And Others. Recorded Live At The Ordway Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota. Mastered By Bernie Grundman. more
	The Cat And The Hat New - Vinyl - SP 741 Sealed 1979 Original. Features Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Lee Ritenour And Others. more
	The Doctor Is In Sealed - Vinyl - AL 4131 Sealed 1977 Original, Saw Cut. Features Tony Williams, Blue Mitchell, Larry Carlton, Ray Armando & Others. Mastered At Sterling. more
	Too Hot To Touch Used - Vinyl - WH 0108 Beautiful 1988 Vinyl Mastered By Bernie Grundman. Features Pepper Adams In A "Cameo Role" more