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When your first music teacher is James Brown’s drummer, and Steve Miller teaches you how to play guitar, you’re in for an interesting life. Leo Sidran grew up to produce a solo album for drummer Clyde Stubblefield, and Miller recorded Sidran’s songs before Leo graduated high school (he and his father, jazz musician Ben, toured as members of the Steve Miller Band).
Fluent in Spanish, the Madison, Wisconsin-born Sidran has made two bilingual solo records, and collaborated with notable Spanish-language musicians such as Ana Laan and the Uruguyan Jorge Drexler, co-producing as Drexler’s Oscar-winning song, “Al Otro Lado Del Rio” from The Motorcycle Diaries.
So yeah, the guy’s done stuff, and the latest thing he’s done is a new solo album, entitled Mucho Leo, which comes out October 21 on Nardis Music, the label he runs with his father. The first video from the LP, “Tonight Someone Is Me”, smoothly blends Latin rhythms into a smokey, slinky blues progression; it’s way cool.
NYC residents can see Sidran this Friday night at Barbes in Brooklyn, before he departs with his Quartet for a European tour:
November 7: North Sea Jazz Club, Amsterdam
November 14-16: Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen
November 20-22: Sunset, Paris
November 24-30: Cafe Central, Madrid
