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Miles Davis - Kings of Jazz Series - by Michael James - Part 3
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.By way of background: “This new PERPETUA series, Kings of Jazz, provides authoritative introductions to the individual masters of...
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Miles Davis - Kings of Jazz Series - by Michael James - Part 4
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.By way of background: “This new PERPETUA series, Kings of Jazz, provides authoritative introductions to the individual masters of...
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GALE MADDEN - Randy L. Smith
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Finally, Randy has done something remarkable in the often narrow world of jazz literature, where the shelves are full of Miles,...
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A 60-Second Harmony Lesson from Herbie Hancock - by Benny Green
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The anecdote that pianist Benny Green relates below about his encounter with Herbie Hancock in Japan while both were touring the...
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Within Us - Chuck Owen and The Jazz Surge - Celebrating 25 Years
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I meant to do this sooner, but I’m sure that you can appreciate the fact that the challenging times in which we currently live have...
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The Final Days of Bill Evans by Ted Gioia
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles subscribed to The JazzLetter for many years.Its author, Gene Lees, who died in April, 2010 at...
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Anders Koppel - Mulberry Street Symphony
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Consider a different time and place: It's the latter part of the 19th century, New York City. Hordes of immigrants fresh off the...
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Jamento - Monty Alexander
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jamento - Monty Alexander 7 [Pablo 2310-826; OJCCD 904-2] was recorded in New York in 1978.Since that time, in addition to his...
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"El Congo Valiente" - The Kenton-Richards Collaborations [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Of the five genius big band composers and arrangers who emerged in full bloom in the 1950s — Gil Evans, Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan,...
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Horace Silver - The Ralph J. Gleason Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Foreword“DID RALPH GLEASON REALLY leave us forty years ago? It certainly doesn't feel that way. Even today, you will find Gleason's...
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The Flute in Jazz and Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“All in all, the Davis [Birth of the Cool] Nonet was much like a band of apostles, gathered together for a brief time before...
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Shorty Rogers - The Art of Jazz - by Alyn Shipton
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“It was William Claxton who set up the photo shoot for Shorty Rogers in this improvised spaceman's headgear plus formal suit jacket...
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CuberQuest - Ronnie Cuber "Meets The Beets Brothers" [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Ronnie Cuber was born in New York in 1941. Ronald Edward Cuber made his debut in the late 1950’s in trombonist and music educator’s...
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Carmen McRae - The Art Taylor Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."A bible for anyone who considers himself serious about jazz. It does for jazz what the Paris Review series 'Writers at Work' did...
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Roy Haynes - A Appreciation
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Any Boston drummer couldn't help being influenced by Roy. I must hâve been eight or ten, something like that, when we first met....
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Art Blakey and Muscle Jazz [From The Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Art Blakey was one of jazz's staunchest advocates throughout his long life in the music. The little speech he would deliver at the end of...
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A.T. - Art Taylor [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Arthur Taylor (1929-1995) was an important mentor in my life. Although I never formally met him, I was fortunate to see him perform on a few...
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Beneath The Rhythm, Congolese Rumba - a link to the past and the soundtrack...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following article appeared in the January 22nd 2022 issue of The Economist magazine [based in England] under the title: Musical...
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McCoy Tyner - The Len Lyons Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles posted an earlier feature about pianist McCoy Tyner which you can locate by going here. It was...
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Ornette Coleman - The Jazz Musician Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Almost from its inception and throughout much of his career, many Jazz fans have found his music to be confusing and/or...
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