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Imaginative Broadway Show Albums - Shelly Manne, Andre Previn, Red Mitchell...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Beginning in the last half of the decade of the 1950s, interpretations of Broadway shows became almost commonplace in the Jazz.There...
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The Phil Woods Six "Live" from The Showboat
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.One of the great advantages of social network topic pages, or focused chat groups or webinars, all to do with the subject of Jazz,...
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Chick Corea -The Downbeat Obituary by Ted Panken
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Corea probably did more to expand the role of alternative keyboards in Jazz than any other pianist. A sensitive player with a...
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Carlos Gastel and Nat King Cole and Professional Representation
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Talk about being at the right place at the right time, Carlos Gastel was in Hollywood in the early 1940s during the formative years...
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Leroy Vinnegar - The Walking Bass in Jazz
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."I knew right away he had one of the best rhythm feelings of any bass player I have ever heard, and at that time, he didn't even have a...
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"Checkmate" - John T. Williams and The Shelly Manne Quintet
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“.. what Shelly has done here is to take each piece out of its original setting and put it into a setting all his own. Herein lies, I think,...
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Dan Terry - The Swinginest Dance Band
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.These days, if you are looking for big band Jazz, more than likely you don’t have to look any farther than your local community...
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Lee Konitz on John Coltrane
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I’m always curious about the reactions of Jazz musicians to one another’s playing and found the following fascinating assessment of...
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Lee Konitz (as), Burt Collins (tp, flh, piccolo), John Eckert (flh), Jimmy Knepper (tb), Sam Burtis (b-tb, tuba), Ronnie Cuber (bs), Ben Aranov (p), Knobby Totah (b), Kenny Washington (ds) Album：" Lee...
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The Clarinet, Bebop and Buddy DeFranco
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.From "king" of the swing instruments, the clarinet was not well suited to bebop, due to its temperamental nature.- NPR Obituary on...
View ArticleBuddy DeFranco Quartet - Now's The Time
Buddy DeFranco (cl), Sonny Clark (p), Gene Wright (b), Bobby White (ds) Album：" Buddy DeFranco / Autumn Leaves " RecordedLos Angeles, August 9, 1954
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Theodore "Fats" Navarro: 1923-1950 - A Career Retrospective
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Fats was a spectacular musician because, in a time when cats arrived on the scene with nothing, he came on with everything: he could...
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Getz and Gary: Stan and Burton - An Unusual Combination
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."I had been playing to impress other musicians, which is very common among young players... It was through Stan that I discovered...
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