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"Gerry Mulligan Feeling More Universal Than Geographical" by Andrew Jones
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here’s another late-in-his-career piece about Gerry Mulligan which featured in the December/January 1990 issue of Jazziz. Sadly,...
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Lennie Tristano - His Life and Music - Part 1
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“A pioneering individualist, he transgressed the boundaries of jazz as well as conventional style categories of jazz history...
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Lennie Tristano and His Legacy by Peter Ind
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Jazz Visions is a remarkable book which presents a fascinating double portrait of the subject and the author."- John Chilton,...
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Lennie Tristano - His Life and Music - Part 2
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In our continuing look at Lennie Tristano’s life and music, let’s now turn to Barry Ulanov’s liner notes to three of Lennie’s...
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Lennie Tristano - His Life and Music - Part 3
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In our continuing look at Lennie Tristano’s life and music, let’s turn once again to Barry Ulanov’s liner notes to three of...
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Remembering Duffy Jackson - 1953 - 2021
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Duffy died on March 3rd of this year and the editorial staff at JazzProfiles wanted to remember him on these pages with the...
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Buddy Rich - The 1977 Modern Drummer Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."To some, he is cocky, sometimes overbearing, at times unnecessarily arrogant. They only have the outward, extroverted exuberance...
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Alan Dawson - The 1977 Modern Drummer Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.John Robinson: "Once I was finally able to study with Alan, a part of me would have been satisfied just to hear the stories from a...
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Jazz Lab- Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce "In The Laboratory"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.One thing often leads to another when the editorial staff at JazzProfiles goes hunting through its extensive library and recording collection...
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Paul Horn - Cycles
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.According to Leroy Ostransky in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz [Barry Kernfeld, ed/1994], Paul Horn, Paul (1930 - 2014] was a...
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