We’ve been following him since the 1960s, when Ben Hirsh Sidran played in the Steve Miller Band, with Boz Scaggs and many others. The 1970s keyboardist was on every album. Unmissable and recognizable. There was already jazz in his style, which a good thirty albums by him confirmed, which the books of the qualified exegete explained eloquently. His words and his art naturally led him to France, where he continues, at 80, to play, write and teach. Its very recent Rainmaker is, under its light touch, quite a program: ode to the best days (Someday Baby), lament of present times (Humanity), denunciation of the empire of profit (in Rainmaker : “ Your cash ain’t nothing but trash ), among other targets. But his music rocks, caresses, the jazz groove is always imbued with soul. Yes, as the “poet philosopher of jazz” says very clearly in the mix, “ times getting tougher than tough “, but gentleness and tenderness prevail.
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