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Wardell Gray - Michael James
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“It is greatly to the credit of Michael James that he has managed, in the course of these essays, to avoid the pitfalls of facile...
View ArticleBenny Goodman And His Sextet - Blue Lou (featuring Wardell Gray)
BENNY GOODMAN AND HIS SEXTET Doug Mettome (tp); Benny Goodman (cl); Wardell Gray (ts); Buddy Greco (p, voc); Francis Beecher (g); Clyde Lombardi (b); Sonny Igoe (d).
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Gerald Wilson - Then and Now - [1918-2014]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."The story of West Coast big bands from the 1950s, especially those featuring black leaders, was largely one of neglect. …Despite the...
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Whitney Balliett - The True Poet of Jazz by Ted Gioia
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.No one has ever written about Jazz more astutely and more eloquently than Whitney Balliett, nor has anyone written about it with...
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The Miles Davis 1948/49 Group - from "Modern Jazz" by Morgan and Horricks
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For the longest time, I was under the impression that the primary treatments on the subject of West Coast Jazz or, if you prefer, Jazz on the...
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The West Coast School Of White Musicians And Its Soloists - from "Modern...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As I prepared this chapter for the blog as part of our continuing feature on their book Modern Jazz, I was amazed at how knowledgeable both...
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The Composers of the West Coast School - from "Modern Jazz" by Morgan and...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In a passing conversation with Gordon Jack, author of Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective and numerous essays for JazzJournal, I mentioned...
View ArticleWee Baby Blues (Live)
Ella didn't do this very often - sing the blues. Maybe she knew all the heartache would come out. In the company of Paul Smith, piano, Wilfred Meadowbrooks, bass and Stan Levey, drums - here's a taste...
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Conrad Herwig - The Latin Side of Horace Silver
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Ned Sublette is a New York City-based writer, record producer and musician who has contributed two important books to the Jazz...
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Booker Ervin: 1930-1970
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Originally a trombone player, Ervin taught himself saxophone while in the services and instinctively veered towards the kind of blunt,...
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Joe DeFrancesco - Ineffable!
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following appeared in the April 2, 2019 Jazz in Europe Blog. It is written by Scott H. Thompson, an internationally published...
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Bennie Green: An Appreciation by Gordon Jack [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedGordon Jack “stopped by” the editorial offices of JazzProfiles recently and absolutely insisted that we take some time off from our efforts at...
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