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Tjader Jag - [Tjag ?] - The Fantasy Years, Part 1
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Tjader is an important, catalytic figure, but exactly how important is difficult to quantify. ... Two [four] decades after his...
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Paul Desmond: Neoclassicism in Jazz [Part 1]
OUP Material, Copyright Line, and AcknowledgementIP NumberTHE IMPERFECT ART by Giola (1988) 2800w from "IV: Neoclassicism in Art" pp.81-91 © 1998 by Ted Gioia By permission of Oxford University Press,...
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Cal Tjader - The 1957 Downbeat Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Lately, I’ve been on a vibraphonist and percussionist Cal Tjader “jag” - [for those who may not be aware, the “T” is silent in his...
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Concerts By The Sea - Howard Rumsey and "Jazz at the Beach"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In the early 1970s, Redondo Beach, California became an important place for Jazz. From 1971 to 1985, Howard Rumsey owned and...
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Frankie Dunlop: Monk's Drummer by Steve H. Siegel
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Steve Siegel has been a guest writer on JazzProfiles with previous pieces on pianist Wade Legge and on the Great Day in Harlem...
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Shelly Manne - Anything But - Un Poco Loco
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Shelly Manne was one of the greatest, not only as a person but also as a musician who gave 120 per cent on every performance. Even though he...
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Victor Feldman - Latinsville
© -Steven Cerra. Copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Judging by the number of sessions it took to complete, the original Latinsville! album seems to have been a rather difficult project. Now we...
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Steve Grossman and Michel Petrucciani: A Remembrance [Steve Grossman January...
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In Paris on January 4, 1998, Francis Dreyfus, the owner of Dreyfus Jazz, was having dinner with pianist extraordinaire Michel...
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Gerry Mulligan - "A Writer's Credo"
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Mulligan has been closely involved in the entire history of modern jazz orchestration, and younger fans, who know him primarily as a...
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