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Zeitlin at Mezzrow
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“By any measure, Zeitlin's creative output over the past 50 years places him at jazz's creative zenith."- Andrew...
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Alec Wilder - "Smart Alec" by Barry Ulanov
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Alec Wilder and His OctetJack, This Is My Husband, They Needed No Words, Footnote to a Summer Love, The Children Met the Train,...
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Manny Albam - West Side Story
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Albam's writing is characterized by the spaces he allows for solos, and by the fact that his arrangements invariably swing; he...
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JAZZ REPERTORY Revisited - by Jeffrey Sultanof
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The phrase ‘jazz repertory’ has many definitions and dimensions. Perhaps the most basic is: the study, preservation and performance...
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Thelonious Monk’s Little-Known ‘Liaisons’
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following piece by Larry Blumenfeld appeared in the June 10, 2017 edition of the Wall Street Journal. More of Monk’s recorded music is...
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"Enter Ennio" [From the Archives]
Have you ever noticed how self-effacing and mild-mannered many of the great composer-arrangers are - people like Hank Mancini, Pete Rugolo, Claus Ogerman, Johnny Mandel, Robert Farnon, Nelson Riddle -...
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The Leonard Feather Collection - Leonard Feather introduces a feature for the female singers for Stan Kenton's Band with featured performances by Anita O'Day and June Christy.
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Ennio Morricone 1928 - 2020 R.I.P.
Associated PressJuly 6, 2020 4:41 am ETROME—Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the soundtracks for...
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MandelMusic: A Tribute to Johnny Mandel
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.A Re-posting in honor of the memory of Johnny Mandel, November 23, 1925 - June 29, 2020 R.I.P.“The ability to write melody is mysterious. There...
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Inside Pee Wee 1950 by Orrin Keepnews
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“… Pee Wee stands as the basic minimum, as a kind of proof that jazz is demonstrably a matter of men creating a music that is what...
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