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Victor Feldman: A Long Way from Piccadilly by John Tynan
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Strictly speaking, I know he was just doing his job as the West Coast Editor of Down Beat [1955-1965], but if John Tynan had not written...
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Willis and John Haley - Bill Holman Talks About Zoot Sims
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following excerpts are from Pat Dorian and Matt Vashlishan’s extensive 2020 interview with tenor saxophonist composer-arranger...
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The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones - Gene Lees
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“One evening in the early summer of 1958 I went to an amusement park called Grona Lund, on the outskirts of Stockholm, to hear the...
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Bill Crow: On Becoming A Bassist By GENE FEEHAN
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Bassist Bill Crow is one of the “good guys” in the music and the editorial staff at JazzProfiles always finds room on these pages for more...
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Charlie Rouse - A Creative Force on Tenor Saxophone
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Though a top tenor man in his own right, he will always be remembered as the saxophonist for the Thelonious Monk quartet. He adapted his...
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Tubby Hayes and Friends - "Inventivity" Insert Notes by Simon Spillett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For those who knew his work, the magnitude of the admiration for Tubby’s achievements was such that Simon Spillett, posits the...
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Keith Jarrett - The Len Lyons Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Jarrett's spontaneous structuring of his music, his ability to incorporate and express basically European ideas in the jazz idiom,...
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Dave Stryker - Baker's Circle
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“RAY BROWN once defined a bassist's greatest assets as "good time, good intonation, and a big sound." While agreeing that this is a...
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Phil Woods - Part 1 - The Smithsonian Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Perhaps the professor emeritus of bebop saxophone, as it has endured from one century to the next. He got his start in his early...
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Phil Woods - Part 2 - The Smithsonian Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.When alto master Phil Woods declares that he has "played with them all," it is a statement of justified pride.He is approaching his...
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Phil Woods - Part 3 - The Smithsonian Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.When alto master Phil Woods declares that he has "played with them all," it is a statement of justified pride.He is approaching his...
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Phil Woods - Part 4 - The Smithsonian Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.When alto master Phil Woods declares that he has "played with them all," it is a statement of justified pride.He is approaching his...
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Franco Ambrosetti - Lost Within You
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.IthakaBY C. P. CAVAFYTRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEYAs you set out for Ithakahope your road is a long one,full of adventure, full of...
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