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Part 3- Tubby Hayes The Complete Fontana Recordings Box Set Notes by Simon...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here is part three of Simon Spillett’s sleeve notes for the now out-of-print 'Tubby Hayes: The Complete Fontana Albums 1961-69'...
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Cal Tjader, Paul Horn and the 1959 Monterey Jazz Festival [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For many years, newspaper columnist Ralph J. Gleason [San Francisco Chronicle], radio disc jockey and impresario Jimmy Lyons, newspaper...
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Jazz Styles by Mark Gridley: The Soul Saxes and "Contemporary Jazz"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.An 11th edition of Mark Gridley’s Jazz Styles is due out in December 2022, but in the meantime, this feature will provide you with...
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Part 4- Tubby Hayes The Complete Fontana Recordings Box Set Notes by Simon...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here is part four of Simon Spillett’s sleeve notes for the now out-of-print 'Tubby Hayes: The Complete Fontana Albums 1961-69' More...
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Lee Konitz - "Excerpts from Conversations on the Improvisor's Art" by Andy...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“That's my way of preparation — to not be prepared. And that takes a lot of preparation!”—Lee Konitz"An extraordinary approach to a...
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Part 5- Tubby Hayes The Complete Fontana Recordings Box Set Notes by Simon...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here is the concluding Part 5 of Simon Spillett’s sleeve notes for the now out-of-print 'Tubby Hayes: The Complete Fontana Albums...
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Part 1 - Louie Bellson [1924-2009] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As you read the first installment of the multi-part interview with one of the greatest drummers in the pantheon of Jazz drummers...
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Joey De Francesco [1972-2022 - Some Remembrances
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Few jazz artists in any era have ever dominated the musical language and popular image of an instrument the way DeFrancesco did...
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Part 2- Louie Bellson [1924-2009] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I was blessed, being around artists like Duke, Basie. They’re the ones that did it. When you join ranks with people like that –...
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Benny Goodman - [From The Archives with Revisions]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As a teenager growing up in New England, listening to a stack of Benny Goodman Orchestra 78 rpm’s one wintry eve opened my ears for...
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Allen Eager with Gordon Jack [From the Archives with Revisions]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It is always a pleasure and a privilege to have Gordon Jack as a guest writer on these pages.Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor...
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Part 3- Louie Bellson [1924-2009] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Brown: We’re on tape 3. Bellson: So there were a lot of tense moments, but there were also, down South, a lot of wonderful people....
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"Cutting Sessions" by Rex Stewart
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“This was a beautiful period for the music and the players. There was little jealousy and no semblance of Jim Crow or Crow Jim in the...
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Part 4- Louie Bellson [1924-2009] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Brown: Today is October 21st [2005]. We’re continuing with day two of our Smithsonian Jazz Oral History interview with Louie...
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Name Band 1959 - Bob Florence and His Orchestra
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There was a time when the big bands were king, played to packed theaters and ballrooms everywhere, and whose nitely broadcasts...
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One for the Ages - "Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays" [From the...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Cole and Shearing were predestined to make beautiful music together. The two men were born just a few months apart (Cole in March...
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Part 5- Louie Bellson [1924-2009] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Brown: Tape 5 of the Louie Bellson interview.Brown: Continuing with the Louie Bellson oral history interview at his house in San...
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Dick Haymes by Bobby Scott [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.JazzLetter, August, 1984The Dick Haymes Enigma - Bobby Scott“For those whose intelligence never got beyond the merely clever, Dick Haymes...
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Part 6- Louie Bellson [1924-2009] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Brown: This is tape six of the jazz oral history interview for the Smithsonian Institution with Louie Bellson in his home in San...
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Bob Florence - Here and Now/ Bold, Swinging Big Band Ideas
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Unless you were based in or around the greater Los Angeles area or had ready access to it, the name “Bob Florence” [1932-2008] may...
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