{"id":48,"date":"2013-04-06T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T15:22:32","slug":"ben-sidran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/featured-speakers\/ben-sidran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Sidran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensidran.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200\" width=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bensidran.com\/assets\/press\/Ben_At_The_Piano_3840x2240_320dpi.jpg\" title=\"Ben Sidran\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from www.bensidran.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ben Sidran<\/strong> is widely recognized as the host of National Public Radio\u2019s landmark jazz series \u201cJazz Alive\u201d, which received a Peabody Award, and as the host of VH-1 television\u2019s \u201cNew Visions\u201d series, which received the Ace Award for best music series. A pianist, producer, singer and composer, he has recorded thirty-five solo albums, including the Grammy nominated Concert for Garcia Lorca, and produced recordings for such noted artists as Van Morrison, Diana Ross, Michael Franks, Rickie Lee Jones, Mose Allison and Steve Miller (with whom he co-wrote the hit song \u201cSpace Cowboy\u201d). He is the composer of the soundtrack for the acclaimed film \u201cHoop Dreams,\u201d and scored the documentary \u201cVietnam: Long Time Coming,\u201d which won both the Aspen Film Festival audience award and an Emmy.  Sidran has authored two books on the subject of jazz, <em>Black Talk<\/em>, a cultural history of the music, and <em>Talking Jazz,<\/em> a series of conversations with inspirational musicians.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a PhD. in American Studies from Sussex University, Brighton, England, but has studiously avoided the academic life, preferring instead to spend his time performing, producing and writing.  His latest works include the memoir, A Life in the Music and the groundbreaking text <em>There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream<\/em>, along with the recordings <em>Dylan Different<\/em> and <em>Don\u2019t Cry For No Hipster<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sidran is widely recognized as the host of National Public Radio\u2019s landmark jazz series \u201cJazz Alive\u201d, which received a Peabody Award, and as the host of VH-1 television\u2019s \u201cNew Visions\u201d series, which received the Ace Award for best music series. A pianist, producer, singer and composer, he has recorded thirty-five solo albums, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6987,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/71"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}