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Gerry Mulligan on Telarc - Paraíso
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Telarc was founded by Jack Renner and Robert Woods, two classically trained musicians and music teachers, in 1977 and was initially...
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Gerry Mulligan on Telarc - Dream a Little Dream
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Telarc was founded by Jack Renner and Robert Woods, two classically trained musicians and music teachers, in 1977 and was initially...
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Gerry Mulligan on Telarc - Dragonfly
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Telarc was founded by Jack Renner and Robert Woods, two classically trained musicians and music teachers, in 1977 and was initially...
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Remembering Curtis Fuller: 1934-=2021
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Fuller came to New York at the age of 22 with a unique style and sound. His tone was rich and full, but with an airiness that...
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"Mechanic" - by Whitney Balliett [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“THAT JAZZ should be written about critically is doubtful. It is an elusive, subjective form, whose delights are immediate and often fleeting....
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Jazz Drumming - Whitney Balliett [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Whitney Balliett was the Jazz critic for The New Yorker magazine from 1957 - 2001 and during that time no one wrote about the music in a more...
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The Creative World of Stan Kenton - Part 1
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For about 12 years, from the New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm band [1952] until the mid-1960s I followed the goings-on of Stan...
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The Creative World of Stan Kenton - Part 2
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“... the Kenton bands from the late 1960s until his death in 1979 sounded different and I could never quite figure out why until I...
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