He taught courses at the university (on the business of music) and beginning in 1981 hosted jazz radio programs for NPR (including the Peabody Award-winning Jazz Alive series) and TV programs for VH1 (where his New Visions series in the early 1990s won the Ace Award). Sidran returned to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1971 and has spent most of his life there. He has also produced albums for Mose Allison, Van Morrison, Rickie Lee Jones, and Diana Ross. He produced Recall the Beginning and co-wrote the hit song 'Space Cowboy.' In 1988, he produced Miller's jazz album Born 2B Blue.

Sidran joined Steve Miller as keyboardist and songwriter on recording projects, appearing on the albums Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, and Recall the Beginning.A Journey from Eden. While in England, he was a session musician for Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, and Charlie Watts. After graduating in 1966, he enrolled in the University of Sussex, England, to pursue a PhD. When Miller and Scaggs left Wisconsin for the West Coast, Sidran stayed behind to earn a degree in English literature. Busloads of volunteers, horses and ground-penetrating radar were called in for a search after Smart went missing.Sidran was raised in Racine, Wisconsin, and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1961, where he became a member of The Ardells with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs.

Smart was last seen walking home with him, authorities said. Davis and Cheryl Anderson were going to walk her home when Flores, a 19-year-old from the nearby town of Arroyo Grande, volunteered to help. She was in no condition to walk home alone. when he spotted a tall girl later identified as Smart sprawled on a lawn next door, apparently passed out. Tim Davis, a senior who helped stage the party, told investigators he was shooing away the last stragglers about 2 a.m. Her friends did not want to go to the party, so they dropped off Smart a couple of blocks away. They grabbed a ride in a truck to a party at an unofficial fraternity house near campus. on May 24, she and three companions left their Cal Poly San Luis Obispo dorms, a staggered row of brick and concrete buildings set against a steep incline known as Poly Hill. Smart, then 19, of Stockton, disappeared on Memorial Day weekend. Kristin Smart vanishing suspect was later accused of sexually assaulting women in L.A.įourteen years ago, police in Redondo Beach were called to a hospital where a woman had come after waking up in a stranger’s bed, naked and with no memory of what had happened.

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