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Duke Jordan: Flight to Europe
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“His style is an amalgam of Art Tatum and Bud Powell, the parts not always cohering with absolute authority. A player of great facility, he may...
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Joe Henderson's Adventures in Barber College
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“PARIS, 1 April 1998 - Miles Davis reinvented himself many times, in many shapes. His alumni include just about every influential jazz musician...
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Pete Jolly
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“For Pete, interpretation is the art of translating self. The composer's melody, harmony, and rhythm serve as his starting point;...
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Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Glaser
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.One of the many what-might-have-been moments from Jazz history that has always fascinated me was what it might have been like to...
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Dave Brubeck, Beyond ‘Take Five’
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Born 100 years ago, the pianist and composer found immense success melding musical classicism with polyrhythmic experiment.By John...
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Deep South - Simon Spillett on the Musical Style of Harry South
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In his essay on the subject of orchestration in the November 1998 edition of his Jazzletter entitled “Pencil Pushers,” Gene Lees...
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Booker Little: 1938-1961
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Some artists are simply in a hurry. It is probably pointless to mourn the waste and loss. With Booker Little, though, a scant 23 years really...
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Mingus, Balliett and Dinosaurs In The Morning
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Mingus has never had a substantial following, and it is easy to see why: he courts only himself and his own genius. A one-man clique, he...
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Steve Kuhn - Back in Focus
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.What is the essence of the Russian piano technique?“You breathe as if you were playing a horn, from the diaphragm. You think of your...
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Bill Evans at Ronnie Scott's on Resonance Records
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It’s always great news when co-President Zev Feldman “unearths” another of his legacy tape discoveries and gains the approval...
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