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More Bill Evans on Resonance - The Buenos Aires Concerts
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It is amazing to reflect on the wonderful job Co-Presidents George Klabin and Zev Feldman, in association with their marvelous team...
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Down Beat Days and Dom DeMicheal by Gene Lees
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following appeared in the February 1982 Gene Lees subscription based, self-published Jazzletter as Down Beat Days.It talks...
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Joe Pass: “Passalaqua - The Poet of the Guitar” [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“His approach was characterized by great melodic facility, harmonic sophistication and a natural, easy command of swing, and the music he...
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“Fine As [Phineas] Can Be”: Phineas Newborn, Jr. [From the Archives; Revised]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved[New Introduction for the previous posting of this piece plus the addition of a YouTube of Phineas playing Blues Theme for the Left Hand...
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Part 1 -Duke Ellington - "The Hot Bach" by Richard O. Boyer
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Few writers have depicted Ellington and his world as vividly as Richard 0. Boyer in "The Hot Bach," a three-part profile published...
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Part 2 -Duke Ellington - "The Hot Bach" by Richard O. Boyer
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Few writers have depicted Ellington and his world as vividly as Richard 0. Boyer in "The Hot Bach," a three-part profile published...
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Part 3 -Duke Ellington - "The Hot Bach" by Richard O. Boyer
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Few writers have depicted Ellington and his world as vividly as Richard 0. Boyer in "The Hot Bach," a three-part profile published...
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Talking Jazz by Randy Smith
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Praise for Talking JAZZ"Randy L. Smith has written many excellent pieces for Jazz Journal. . . . producing fresh, crisply presented...
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Allan Ganley - The Drummer As Musician
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I first heard Allan Ganley when he was a member of tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes’ excellent quintet from 1962-64, a group that also...
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Woody Herman, The Metropole Cafe and Gene Lees
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Scuffling,” in the sense of getting by on a low income or struggling financially is not a term used very much these days in Jazz...
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Steve Davis: Moment to Moment [From the Archives with Revisions]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Davis is an adept, declarative player, always indebted to his work with Jackie McLean and Art Blakey, a hard-bop grounding which gives his...
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Ahmad Jamal - The Len Lyons Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“His technique has scarcely changed over the years and remains closer to Eroll Garner than to anyone else, concentrating on fragile...
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Down Beat Days and Don DeMicheal by Gene Lees
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following appeared in the February 1982 Gene Lees subscription based, self-published Jazzletter as Down Beat Days.It talks...
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Helen Merrill – A Restless Musical Soul 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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Charles Mingus: A Jazz Giant’s Glorious Excesses by John Edward Hasse
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Born 100 years ago this month, bassist Charles Mingus created music that was singularly bold, beautiful and original.The following...
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Oscar Peterson - The Canadiana Suite [From the Archives with Revisions]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Way back when, I never knew much about the comings-and-goings of Jazz artists on Jazz record labels.What I did “know” was that pianist...
View ArticleMiles Davis & Bob Dorough (1966) Nothing Like You (audio only)
Nothing like you has ever been seen before Nothing like you existed in days of yore Never were lips so kissable Never were eyes so bright I cant believe it possible That you bring me such delight...
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Mark Christian Miller's "Music in the Air"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I am a big fan of vocal Jazz artists such as Bobby Troup, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, Blossom Dearie and Mose Allison who can...
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Making "Music!Music!Music!" With The Ahmad Jamal Trio [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I never ceased to be impressed with what Jazz musicians often make out of ditties.A ditty is a short, simple song.The original meaning of...
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Jazz in the Sixties - Duke Ellington in the Sixties
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.If you were a recent high school graduate looking forward to a career as a Jazz drummer when the 1960s dawned, chances are that...
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