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Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong by Ricky Riccardi
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Ricky Riccardi is Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum and author of What a Wonderful World: The...
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"Mood Indigo" - A Sapphire of Tonal Brilliance by John Edward Hasse
Copyright ©2020 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A Sapphire of Tonal BrillianceA departure from his swinging dance music, Duke Ellington’s Mood Indigo softly conveys an intimate,...
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Zoot Sims at Ronnie Scott's - by Simon Spillett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Easy-going” is an expression that fitted the late tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims “to a T.” He was a friend of Larry Bunker, with whom...
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The Cannonball Adderely Sextet in New York
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I suppose that old adages are old adages because the ring of truth in them defies time and prevails to some degree in any generation.One...
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"On Time" - With Les McCann and Joe Pass
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As Kirk Silsbee alludes in the excerpts from the sleeve notes to the Les McCann and Joe Pass Pacific Jazz On Time recording [PJ A916] that...
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Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones by Bobby Jaspar
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“We know that the creative daring of Kenny Clarke originated an evolution in rhythmic concepts in jazz. This process, starting at the beginning...
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Mundell Lowe - “Our Waltz”
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. “Improvisers intimidated by the unhurried ballad’s unavoidable requirement to think often address the problem by doubling the established...
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Edward “Kid” Ory: 1886-1973
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There is no confusion these days about what New Orleans"tailgate" trombone playing is all about. Most modern practitioners of that...
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Bill and Buonarotti: "Empathy"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.A reading of the Economist Magazine book review of Martin Gayford’s Michelangelo: His Epic Life brought to mind the concept of empathy in...
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Jack Teagarden
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jack Teagarden (1905-64)TROMBONE, VOCAL“A Texan, Teagarden took the trombone to new levels, with his impeccable technique, fluency and...
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"Walpurgis Night" - Whitney Balliett on Buddy Rich
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Whitney Balliett ... was above all a poet, who pursued poetry by other means. He wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years,...
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