Books by Ben Sidran

There Was a Fire is the only complete history of how immigrant Jews helped birth America's popular music industry and how that also delivered the terms of the American Dream.

Tommy LiPuma was one of America's most influential record producers, whose work with icons like Miles Davis, Barbra Streisand, and Willie Nelson has sold 75 million records, with five trips up the Grammy red carpet.

"Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Wynt"

"Black Music--whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul--has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a whi"