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Jazz Party: A Great Night in Manhattan by Steve Siegel
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.With previous features on pianist Wade Legge, the Great Day in Harlem Photograph “Mystery Man” - William J. Crump, drummer Frankie...
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James P. Johnson - Carolina Shout by John Edward Hasse
The following appeared in the May 15, 2021 edition of the Wall Street Journal. If you click on the highlighted “Carolina Shout” title in the body of this piece, it will link you back to a performance...
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Gerry Mulligan - "Big Band Soft Sell" by Harry Frost
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Articles today about big band Jazz usually lament the disappearance of them.But truth be told, one look at the annual college issue...
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Lester Young in Washington, D.C. "Swing, or I'll Kill You"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.An absurdity perpetuated in Jazz literature is that in the final decade and a half of his life [he died in 1959], Lester Young was...
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The Creative World of Stan Kenton - Part 3
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I'm learning as I'm going, but fortunately with the help of many Kenton specialists, a decent bibliography-discography and the...
View ArticleA FLG Maurepas upload - Cal Tjader - This Masquerade - Latin Jazz
"This Masquerade," the Leon Russell hit that made George Benson a pop superstar, was recorded just months after the guitarist hit platinum with it. Bob Redfield delivers some of Benson's Wes...
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Badd Steve Gadd - Redux
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I’ve shared this quotation from trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wynton Marsalis before, but it bears repeating in the context of...
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Serge Chaloff 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 Dave Brubeck Quartet - The Complete Storyville Broadcasts
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The original members of the Dave Brubeck Quartet shown in a publicity photo by James J. Kriegsmann, the noted New York photographer...
View ArticleCOLEMAN HAWKINS: LOVE SONG FROM "APACHE"
What story can bring together Coleman Hawkins (who many consider to be the trunk of the Tenor Saxophone tree), the actor Burt Lancaster, contemporary jazz greats Charlie Haden and Cassandra Wilson,...
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