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Alec Wilder Octet - Redux
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I wanted to revisit the subject of Alec Wilder’s Octet music [1938-1942] for a couple of reasons.The first is to put to rest a tall...
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THE SHORT AND CURIOUS LIFE OF WADE LEGGE By Steve Siegel
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Steve Siegel reached out to the editorial staff at JazzProfiles recently and inquired if we would have any interest in featuring his...
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Bill Crump: A Great Day in Harlem's “Mystery Man” by Steve Siegel
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Steve Siegel reached out to the editorial staff at JazzProfiles recently and inquired if we would have any interest in featuring his...
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Remembering The Mastersounds
Due to some requests from researchers I am re-posting this feature, one of the blog's earliest.Despite the difficulty in navigating the Blogger platform to "leave a comment," it has garnered over a...
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Miles Davis - Love Songs
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Discovering this CD for the first time, but it sure goes to the heart of something that's often overlooked in the conversation about...
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Jean “Toots” Thielemans: A Tasteful, Talented Treat [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Thielemans recorded ‘Bluesette’ in 1961, after working in George Shearing’s quintet [since 1952]; his first hit had him playing guitar...
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The Mark Masters Ensemble "Night Talk - The Alec Wilder Songbook featuring...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“With his latest album, Night Talk, the brilliant arranger and bandleader Mark Masters delves deep into the Alec Wilder catalogue,...
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STARS OF JAZZ REVIEW by Gordon Jack
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journaland a very generous friend in allowingJazzProfilesto re-publish his...
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The Mastersounds with Wes Montgomery
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The Mastersounds replicated the vibes-piano-bass-drums format associated with the Modern Jazz Quartet to create a light swinging...
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Jazz At The Blackhawk Bar in San Francisco
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Little over a half century after it closed, it’s strange to think that one of the iconic clubs in the history of modern Jazz became...
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Shelly Manne on 52nd Street
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jazz was just beginning in 1920 and drummer Shelly Manne, in a sense, began with it as 1920 was also the year of his birth.Twenty years...
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