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Nat "King" Cole - The Gene Lees Essay - Part 3
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“On July 18, 1952, Cole went into the studio with a group that included John Collins, guitar, Charlie Harris, bass, Jack Costanzo, Latin...
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Reunion Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker by Michael Cuscuna
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here’s a nice encapsulation of the early years of Gerry Mulligan’s 1950s association with Pacific Jazz Records.Reunion Gerry Mulligan Quartet...
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Pat Senatore - Ascending Inspirations
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“When I moved to LA in 1960 from Newark I wanted to transfer my Union card to Local 47 and the rule was you couldn’t work for 6...
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The Fabulous Gerry Mulligan Sextet [Fresh Sound CD 418-419] - Alun Morgan
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Born in Wales in 1928, the esteemed British author and critic Alun Morgan [d. 2018] became a Jazz fan as a teenager and was an early...
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Cal Tjader, Paul Horn and the 1959 Monterey Jazz Festival
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For many years, newspaper columnist Ralph J. Gleason [San Francisco Chronicle], radio disc jockey and impresario Jimmy Lyons, newspaper...
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Jay and Kai – When Two Trombones Are Better Than One
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“'You can't play all night in a club with just two trombones and rhythm!’ a friend told Kai Winding when he announced that he and J. J....
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Mulgrew Miller: “Living in the Shadows of Giants”
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Don’t cross a bridge to get home or to work:” I guess the expression contains more than a hint of caution and admonition, especially if you’ve...
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Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Outakes
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Many visitors to these pages are great fans of the Dave Brubeck Quartet and I thought you might want to know about this new...
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Remembering Wardell Gray [1921-1955] - Part 1
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.SIDEMAN BLUESHe played in Vegas. Then he died there--his body found at the edge of the desert with a broken neck and a bloodstream...
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"STAN AND GERRY" - Occasional Collaborators" by Gordon Jack
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. As many of you know, Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journaland a...
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What Kind of Bird Is This? - The Eric Ineke JazzXpress featuring Tineke Postma
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“... History fosters temporal illusions, fractured perspectives. Time, like jazz, speeds up, slows down, and circles back on...
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Monk Goes to School
The media release company Crossroads sent this promotional material to me and I thought it would be nice to share it - “as is” - with the readers of this blog. The podcast features T.S. Monk and Danny...
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