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"Gene Krupa: The World Is Not Enough" by Bobby Scott [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The Jazz at the Philharmonic tour that fall lifted Gene's spirits, at least for a while. But the traveling paled them. I often watched...
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"Mulligan Enters the Down Beat Hall of Fame" - Mitchell Seidel
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.This article with its later-in-life interview is very revealing for the comments Gerry shares with Mitchell about how his approach...
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The Miles Davis Quintet at the Plugged Nickel
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedThe album My Funny Valentine was released in May of 1965 to great acclaim. E.S.P was issued in November of 1965, when Miles began...
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Ben van den Dungen: Live At Lux & Tivoli
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“With great pleasure and pride we present the new album of the Ben van den Dungen Quartet ”Live At Lux & Tivoli.” The album was...
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"Dizzy Gillespie - The Lion in Winter" - The Jazz Musician Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.This is a rarity because by March 1992, the year it appeared in The Jazz Musician, there were very few late-in-life interviews with...
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Lyle Mays - "Eberhard"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The first time I saw Lyle was at a place called Harry Hope’s in Cary, Illinois—the same town where I went to high school,...
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Charlie Parker - 1940-1943 - The Apprenticeship Years
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Dating back to Ross Russell’s BIRD LIVES! -The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker first published in 1973 by...
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Pre Birth of the Cool - Claude Thornhill
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I found the following in the Down Beat online archives [http://downbeat.com/news/detail/pre-birth-of-the-cool-claude-thornhill...
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Matt Dennis - "'Scuse Me While I Disappear" - by Gene Lees [From the Archives}
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Matt Dennis had an ability to write the most beautiful and sophisticated melodies, and yet they were never hard to sing. He was also a...
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More Impulse! - Gil Evans "Out of the Cool"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff has previously written about Askey Kahn’s The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records which you...
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More Impulse! - Oliver Nelson - "The Blues and The Abstract Truth"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff has previously written about Askey Kahn’s The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records which you...
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Eddie Lang [1902 -1933] - Richard Hadlock
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“On nearly all his recordings, at his radio broadcasts, and in theaters, Bing was backed by Eddie Lang, sitting at his right elbow,...
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Gerry Mulligan's Bari Sax Setup - From Reed to Wireless Mic by Ed Enright
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jazz fans usually don’t give the actual instruments that Jazz musicians play much thought.They are more interested in what comes...
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Bill Holman and The Netherlands Metropole Orchestra
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For many years, large orchestras performing Jazz were part of the cultural scene in European countries like the Netherlands and...
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Gerry Mulligan 1927-1996 - The Obituaries
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As you would imagine, the passing of a legendary Jazz musician such as Gerry Mulligan prompted many formal notices of his death in...
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More Impulse! - The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“If someone were to ask you how rising young jazzmen in New York were playing on a good get-together in 1962, this album would...
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The Little Giant: The Story of Johnny Griffin by Mike Hennessey
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Griffin, one of the fastest saxophonists in jazz, would hurtle through solos like a snooker player intent on clearing the table in...
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Mel Lewis, Terry Gibbs and The Dream Band
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Due to his huge presence on the New York Jazz scene beginning around 1960 with Gerry Mulligan’s Concert Jazz Band and following...
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The Cool Guitar of Jimmy Gourley
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As this article attests, there was a time following World War II when it was possible to chart the activities of local Jazzmen...
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Diana Krall: The Price of Making It [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Diana Krall's biggest problem in the jazz world is success.Singing is closer to the actor's art than the musician's. The real trick of the...
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