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"Monk" - Whitney Balliett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The Boston Globe stated: “Balliett’s genius for pictorial description (which helps make him a gifted writer of profiles) extends to...
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Bunny Berigan - Whitney Balliett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“As always, there is Berigan’s incomparable – and irrepressible – swing. … Berigan’s sense of swing was an innate talent, a given...
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"The Blue Notes" by Whitney Balliett and the Beginnings of Mosaic Records
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The Boston Globe stated: “Balliett’s genius for pictorial description (which helps make him a gifted writer of profiles) extends to...
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"The Mulligan Sextet" by Whitney Balliett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The Boston Globe stated: “Balliett’s genius for pictorial description (which helps make him a gifted writer of profiles) extends to...
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"Miles" - Whitney Balliett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“He has never been much of a technician, and he has been clever enough to keep his style within his abilities.”“He also softens his...
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Keepers of the Flame and Giants by Whitney Balliett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The Boston Globe stated: “Balliett’s genius for pictorial description (which helps make him a gifted writer of profiles) extends to...
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"Bird" by Miles Davis
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“He has never been much of a technician, and he has been clever enough to keep his style within his abilities.”- Whitney BalliettIf...
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Mel Rhyne: 1937-2013 - R.I.P. [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Rhyne immediately sounds different from the prevailing Jimmy Smith school of organ players. Instead of swirling, bluesy chords, he favors...
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"Max Roach From Hip Hop to Bebop" - Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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Dave Frishberg Obituary 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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"ROY HAYNES : No Beats to Waste" - Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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"SONNY ROLLINS : Saxophone Colossus" by Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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"Gerry Mulligan: When the Past, Present and Future of Jazz Met" by Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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"JACKIE McLEAN: Sugar Free Saxophone" by Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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"KENNY CLARKE: Dropping Bombs on Paris" by Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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"Dave Holland: The Power Behind the Throne" by Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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"John Scofield: It's Magic" by Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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Dave Frisberg - 1933-2021 - The Washington Post Obituary
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Frisberg isn't much of a singer, but he is an excellent pianist and a very fine songwriter, and one can forgive the quality of the...
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Bob Dorough: A Hillbilly Bebopper on a Geezer Pass
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.While the editorial staff at JazzProfiles completes a commissioned writing assignment, we hope you will enjoy one more week of Mike...
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"Shirley Horn: The Art of the Slow Ballad" - by Mike Zwerin
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Paris-based jazz musician and International Herald Tribune writer Mike Zwerin posted a 41-week series entitled Sons of...
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