Are We There Yet? Live at the Sunside Ben Sidran

Are We There Yet? Live at the Sunside Ben Sidran

'Are We There Yet? Live at the Sunside' Ben Sidran

You still can’t beat live jazz. Accordingly, this is as close as you can get to the way the Madison-based jazz singer-songwriter-pianist lives through his playing. Sidran has dedicated his career to “demystifying the world of jazz,” as an artist/author/public intellectual/artist. “Jazz musicians are just like the rest of us, only more so,” he has written.

Those last three little words gleam pearls of wisdom. You might say, as of existential necessity, we all improvise through life. But jazzers raised improv to an art form, becoming guideposts of adventure, and lighthouses to the shore. Sometimes sirens of safety on the shore: “When the band shows up the mob becomes a parade,” his liner