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Nat King Cole - Jazz Pianist - Part 4
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“IN TERMS OF QUANTITY, Cole probably recorded less in pure jazz settings (apart from the Trio) than any other pianist of his...
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Nat King Cole - Jazz Pianist - Part 5
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Cole was grateful to Norman. And Granz would continually acknowledge how Cole had helped launch his career as a producer, both of...
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Shorty Rogers Is Long On West Coast Jazz
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The definition of "West Coast Jazz?" You know, I've been asked that question so many times. It's a hard one. I'm not trying to evade the...
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The Film That Jazz Deserves Bertrand Tavernier’s ’Round Midnight
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“ ’Round Midnight” shows what it means to devote your life to music. By Howard FishmanThe New Yorker April 7, 2021Jazz musicians...
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Joan Benavent - SUNRISE
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Not to demean other approaches to the music, but I have a preference for straight ahead Jazz: Jazz that you can pop your fingers...
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Shelly Redux – More Thoughts From and About The Manne
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Shelly Manne was first-call studio drummer for nearly every major film writer in Hollywood. He worked for Mancini, Goldsmith and Fielding,...
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Early Jazz: The Origins and The Beginnings
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Although there is no dearth of books on jazz, very few of them have attempted to deal with the music itself in anything more than general...
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McKinney's Cotton Pickers and The Early Development of Big Band Jazz
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As Jazz moves into its second century of recorded documentation, I wanted to continue with the “Early Jazz” theme by highlighting...
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GERRY MULLIGAN BIG BAND, BARITONE AND BEARD - by Richard Cook
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Central to the importance of this article by Richard Cook which appeared in the November 25, 1986 issue of The Wire is the...
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