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Chico Hamilton Quintet With Strings Attached [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As Ted Gioia noted in his seminal work on the subject of West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960:“Despite his aversion to such...
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Clifford Brown Remembered by Gordon Jack
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journaland a very generous friend in allowingJazzProfilesto re-publish his...
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The Music Finds a Way - Steve Isoardi
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following is from the www.pointofdeparture.org website, an online musical journal which is published and produced on a monthly...
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Gerry Mulligan - Jazz America
Gerry Mulligan - Jazz America© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In his insert notes to Lonesome Boulevard [A&M - Verve 0602527068756] Gerry observed in the...
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A Fickle Sonance by Art Lange
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here’s one more essay from the www.pointofdeparture.org website, an online musical journal which is published and produced on a...
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One for the Ages - "Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Cole and Shearing were predestined to make beautiful music together. The two men were born just a few months apart (Cole in March...
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See/Saw. Looking at Photographs, by Geoff Dyer
For as long as I can remember, Jazz and photography have been inextricably linked. I hear one and I see the other.While not strictly speaking about Jazz photography - with one notable exception [Roy...
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"The Forgotten Ones:" Don Fagerquist - Gordon Jack [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Gordon Jack, author of Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective and a frequent contributor to JazzJournal “dropped by” the editorial...
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Blumenthal on Thelonious [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“He dealt in phrases with odd shapes, placed into odd niches on the bar line, stressed in odd places. Melodically, he created tight, stark...
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"GOODBYE, FRANK" by Joe Lang
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Before Frank, there were Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby, but they only laid some groundwork for the man who would write the book on...
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The 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival Presents The Real Ambassadors
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Why was Pops’ performance in Dave and Iola Brubeck’s The Real Ambassadors such a moving and meaningful experience for him? Does...
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