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The most famous music from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was originally written...
Good Ol’ Charles SchulzThe most famous music from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was originally written for a different projectSnoopy in the birdbathBy Liz Fields, December 3, 2020, American Masters,...
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Remembering Wardell Gray [1921-1955] - Part 3 - the Herbie Butterfield Essay
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The death of Wardell Gray has not been completely cleared up but it is not for us to attempt to solve any mysteries here. …. His...
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The Tubby Hayes Quartet - Down in the Village
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.With the possible exception of the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck,...
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Octobop - West Coast Christmas
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Each year, the editorial staff at JazzProfiles tries to add an additional recording to its growing collection of hip, slick and...
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"Big Band Renaissance" Revisited
© -Steven Cerra. Copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In Big Band Renaissance (Smithsonian), an expertly compiled and annotated five-CD collection of 75 recordings made between 1941 and 1991, Bill...
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Free Jazz: An Album to Liberate a Genre - Larry Blumenfeld
‘Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet’ was and remains a radical recording thanks to an unencumbered exchange of sonic ideas among a bevy of talented...
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Jake Hanna - The Timeliest, Swinging Drummer
© -Steven Cerra. Copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Perhaps ‘comfortable’ is the key word to Jake Hanna’s playing. It reflects his personality and his approach to music, for he is an easygoing...
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Judy Garland’s Good Tidings - "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
When Garland sang ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ in a film more than 75 years ago, she was consoling a nation at war; today, the song speaks as powerfully to a country beleaguered by...
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Teef - Yusef Lateef 1920-2013
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In his pursuit of varied tone-colors he also played oboe and bassoon, but he was noted above all for his full, sturdy sound on...
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