Leo Sidran

Leo Sidran – Mucho Leo (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:05 minutes | 397 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bonsaï Music

Mucho Leo is Sidran’s fourth record as a solo artist, but his first in a decade, and when we say “solo,” well, Sidran not only sings and plays everything on this new effort, he could also take credit for recording and mixing the album. It makes complete sense, says Sidran, “It’s a very personal project, and after a long period of working behind the scenes, it’s an important creative statement for me, but I also have a larger story to tell.”

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Leo Sidran – Cool School (The Music of Michael Franks) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 49:48 minutes | 1020 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Spain

In the song “The Cool School,” Michael Franks asks, “Am I dinosaur? Yeah you bet. I grew up listening to Mose and Chet […] me I attended the Cool School.” In a few short lines he describes what many jazz fans today are feeling: he’s an insider, his influences are hip and classic, a member of a small club, the kind of club that is both impossible to join and to which everyone can belong.

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Leo Sidran – What’s Trending (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:10 minutes | 535 MB | Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bonsaï Music

What’s Trending is Leo Sidran’s eighth solo record. In many ways it picks up where his celebrated 2021 release The Art Of Conversation left off. If The Art was a “hymn to empathy” (El Pais, Spain) and “a treasure chest of intimate and introspective portraits of family life during the pandemic” (West Coast Soul, Germany), this latest release is a hip, deeply personal exploration of how music can make life more livable in difficult times.

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