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Oliver Nelson's Big Band - Live from Los Angeles
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In early June 1967, the buzz was going around the Musicians Union Local 47 on Vine Street in Hollywood, CA that something special...
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Solos: Bobby Bryant, Freddy Hill, Conte Candoli, Buddy Childers Oliver Nelson - arranger, conductor, soprano saxophone Bobby Bryant, Conte Candoli, Buddy Childers, Freddy Hill - trumpets Lou Blackburn,...
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Doug MacDonald Duo - Toluca Lake Jazz
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Guitarist Doug MacDonald and bassist Harvey Newmark perform a set of swinging jazz duets on Toluca Lake Jazz. Interpreting seven...
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Remembering Louie Prima [1910-1978] and Wingy Manone [1900-1982]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Though Louis Prima recorded widely and well throughout the '30s, achieving great popularity and visibility, his name is often...
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Stan Levey - The Alun Morgan Interview
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Like Max Roach, Levey was an essential figure in the progression and development of bebop. Unlike the swing music of the 1930s and ’40s,...
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"From A with Love" by Chris Bacas
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Chris Bacas is a saxophonist, flutist and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is featured on more than 60 recordings, including 3 as...
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Phil Woods - Part 5 - The Smithsonian Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In 2007, Phil Woods was awarded the coveted Jazz Master designation by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that...
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Phil Woods - Part 6 - The Smithsonian Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedIn 2007, Phil Woods was awarded the coveted Jazz Master designation by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that...
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Phil Woods - Part 7 - The Smithsonian Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedIn 2007, Phil Woods was awarded the coveted Jazz Master designation by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that...
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Phil Woods - Part 8 - The Smithsonian Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedIn 2007, Phil Woods was awarded the coveted Jazz Master designation by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that...
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Clint Eastwood Remembers Lennie Niehaus
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedThe actor, director, and jazz aficionado pays tribute to his decades-long arranging and compositional partner (6/1/29 –...
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Lee Konitz on Keith Jarrett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“A master jazz musician goes onto the stage hoping to have a rendezvous with music. He/she knows the music is there (it always is),...
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A Standard Still on the Tracks at 80 - John Edward Hasse
Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Take the ‘A’ Train’ performed by Duke Ellington’s orchestra summons the hustle and bustle of a trip up to Harlem.By John Edward Hasse Wall Street Journal Copyright ©2020 Dow Jones...
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Booker Ervin - The Good Book by Simon Spillett Parts 1-4 Complete
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. The following appeared in the blog as four, separate feature features in May/June, 2018. It's a lot of research to digest in one sitting,...
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Martial Solal: The Early Years
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Martial Solal has always gone his own way, along a straight and rising path which compels respect: some forty years without ever...
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