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How John Coltrane Got His Sound
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Over the years, much has been written about John Coltrane’s SOUND.But how exactly did Coltrane produce it?As you will come to...
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Joe Maini 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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Part 1 - Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights - A Jazz Memoir
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I came to jazz through art — painting and photography, the American Abstract Expressionists, beat poets, Greenwich Village...
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Part 2 - Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights - A Jazz Memoir
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Herb Snitzer's photographs are not just pictures. They are stories, each and every one of them. Herb is one of the great...
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Part 3- Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights - A Jazz Memoir
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Herb Snitzer's life as an artist is about belonging, about acknowledging the right to belong. Spending time in the company of his...
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Part 4- Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights - A Jazz Memoir
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In 1959, the Ornette Coleman quintet was booked for two weeks at the Five Spot Cafe, and they stayed four months. The word went...
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Part 5- Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights - A Jazz Memoir
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."The great jazz photographer Herb Snitzer has produced here a masterful work. Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir combines some...
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Part 6 - Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights - A Jazz Memoir
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."With eyes wide open and the wisdom of the years, Herb Snitzer offers a refreshing take on an era that is too often trivialized in...
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Part 7 - Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights - A Jazz Memoir
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Glorious Days and Nights is a personal account of the fifty-year career of jazz photographer Herb Snitzer, with a special focus on...
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Part 8 - Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights - A Jazz Memoir
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“This book includes Snitzer's very best jazz photographs. He reveals the essences of the artists, their struggles, joys, and pains....
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Part 1 - "Quincy Jones - A Morning Light" by Raymond Horricks
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I have to consider the individual personalities of the guys I'm writing for; but I still like to have the feeling of an...
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Part 2- "Quincy Jones - A Morning Light" by Raymond Horricks
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.He was born Quincy Delight Jones on March 14, 1933, in Chicago."As one of a family of ten (seven sisters, two brothers) music...
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Part 3- "Quincy Jones - A Morning Light" by Raymond Horricks
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.3“I examined Quincy's leather travelling grip when we met in London in 1957. As if in defiance of the grey July day, it was bright...
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Part 4- "Quincy Jones - A Morning Light" by Raymond Horricks
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.4“Quincy left the band after South America."I could've gone on balling with Dizzy, but I had writing to do and I wanted to be with...
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Septet Frans Elsen NORWAY featuring Piet Noordijk - Netherlands Jazz Archives
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I suppose in some ways it was inevitable that the Jazz-Rock Fusion movement that began in earnest on the United States Jazz scene...
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Brubeck at Oberlin [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.*****... This is incredible music, jazz or whatever, and you should buy it. — Neil Tesser Down Beat“Jazz At Oberlin was an enormous...
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"What Is Jazz" - From Jazz Americana by Woody Woodward [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Frenchmen call it Le Jazz Hot. If you want a hot argument, just ask twoor more jazz enthusiasts to define it for you.”“The jazz musician...
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Art Pepper - 1925-1982 And His "Second Career"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."The Second Career" by John Lithweiler originally appeared in the January/February 1998 issue of Coda magazine, and can also be...
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Nat Adderley and Alto Saxophones Players [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley’s enormous personality and untimely death, together with his participation in such legendary dates as...
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Jeri Southern [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The contributions that Orrin Keepnews and Gene Lees have made to Jazz over the past fifty years are immense and go well beyond anything...
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