Dylan Different
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| name = Dylan Different
| type = studio
| artist = Ben Sidran
| cover = Ben Sidran Dylan Different album.jpg
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| released = {{Start date|2009|11|16}}
| recorded = 1{{spaced ndash}}4 Jun 2009
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| genre = Smooth jazz
| length = {{Duration|m=46|s=01}}
| label = Nardis
| producer = Ben Sidran
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Dylan Different is a smooth jazz album by keyboardist and jazz vocalist Ben Sidran, released in 2009. It is Sidran's thirty-sixth album, and his fourth release with his independent label Nardis Records.{{cite web|url=http://bensidran.com/Discography.htm |title=Ben Sidran's Discography |publisher=BenSidran.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-29}}
Background
A tribute to Bob Dylan, the album consists of covers of his songs, reinterpreted as jazz. Sidran maintained the original lyrics, but introduced revised tempos, instruments and a large backing band.{{AllMusic|class=album |id=r1702930 |tab=review |label=Dylan Different{{spaced ndash}}Ben Sidran |first=Thom |last=Jurek |accessdate=2012-02-29}}
The album was recorded 1–4 June 2009. Eschewing a traditional recording studio, Sidran elected to record the album in an Alsatian farm house in the east of France, explaining that he wanted to introduce the same haunted, mysterious quality that he felt from Dylan's music. Several of the musicians were also European, including Rodolphe Burger, a French singer and musician; Marcello Giuliani, an Italian bassist; and Alberto Malo, a Spanish drummer.{{cite web |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=44629 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717050043/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=44629 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-17 |title=Ben Sidran to Release "Dylan Different" |publisher=AllAboutJazz |date=2009-10-26 |accessdate=2012-02-29 }}
Track listing
{{track listing
| all_lyrics = Bob Dylan
| all_music = Ben Sidran
| title1 = Everything Is Broken
| note1 = from Oh Mercy, 1989
| length1 = 3:25
| title2 = Highway 61 Revisited
| note2 = from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965
| length2 = 3:18
| title3 = Tangled Up in Blue
| note3 = from Blood on the Tracks, 1975
| length3 = 3:46
| title4 = Gotta Serve Somebody
| note4 = from Slow Train Coming, 1979
| length4 = 4:47
| title5 = Rainy Day Women#12 & 35
| note5 = from Blonde on Blonde, 1966
| length5 = 3:56
| title6 = Ballad of a Thin Man
| note6 = from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965
| length6 = 2:56
| title7 = Maggie's Farm
| note7 = from Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
| length7 = 4:58
| title8 = Knockin' On Heaven's Door
| note8 = from Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 1973
| length8 = 3:50
| title9 = Subterranean Homesick Blues
| note9 = from Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
| length9 = 3:39
| title10 = On The Road Again
| note10 = from Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
| length10 = 3:08
| title11 = All I Really Want To Do
| note11 = from Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964
| length11 = 3:20
| title12 = Blowin' in the Wind
| note12 = from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963
| length12 = 5:08
}}
Personnel
=Musicians=
- Ben Sidran{{spaced ndash}}vocals, piano, Wulitizer, Hammond B3, Fender Rhodes
- Rodolphe Burger{{spaced ndash}}guitar, vocal on "Blowin' in the Wind"
- Jorge Drexler{{spaced ndash}}vocals on "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
- Georgie Fame{{spaced ndash}}vocals and organ on "Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35"
- Marcello Giuliani{{spaced ndash}}acoustic bass, electric bass
- Amy Helm{{spaced ndash}}background vocals
- Michael Leonhart{{spaced ndash}}trumpet, flugelhorn
- Bob Malach{{spaced ndash}}tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
- Alberto Malo{{spaced ndash}}drums, percussion
- Leo Sidran{{spaced ndash}}horn arrangements, additional guitar, Hammond B3, piano, koto
- Leonor Watling & Luca{{spaced ndash}}background vocals on "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"{{cite web|url=http://bensidran.com/DylanDifferent.html |title=Ben Sidran's Dylan Different |publisher=BenSidran.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-29}}
Reception
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Writing for AllMusic, Thom Jurek praised Sidran's interpretation and style, "his requisite musicality, unaffected jazzman's cool, and streetwise yet elegant poetic imagination." He also praised the source material, commenting on Dylan's ability to write "folk songs that transcend their eras of origin in relevancy."