I freely admit to being an amateur so far as jazz is concerned. It’s a big musical world out there, and I’ve really only explored the capital cities of jazz. (Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, etc.) This is by way of saying that I have no idea where Sidran stands among jazz aficionados. I stumbled on Sidran through my Iphone, courtesy of WunderRadio, on which I subscribed to an all jazz radio station in New Jersey. They played a cut from an album he recorded called Dylan Different, which I proceeded to buy myself for Christmas. There tends to be a certain sameness about his Dylan takes, but they still make enjoyable listening, at least in my opinion. I could only find two live videos from the album, Highway 61 Revisited and Tangled up in Blue, both of which follow. A couple of other cuts are better than these, but alas, are not available on youtube.
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