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‘Saxophone Colossus’ Review: Sonny Rollins, Horned Giant by Larry Blumenfeld
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For the jazz titan Sonny Rollins, the saxophone was a means to pierce the veil of indifference and outright hate.The following...
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An Interview with Alan Broadbent by Gordon Jack [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As many of you know, Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journaland a very generous friend to these pages in his allowance...
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Allison Neale 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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Frank Sinatra’s Drummer Tells the Story of His Final Concert
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Gregg Field worked with the legendary singer for the last few years of Sinatra's professional career. In honor of Ol’ Blue Eyes’s...
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Barney Kessel: An Interview With Gene Lees
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved."The important things for a musician to be concerned with are (1) whether you are able to play what you sincerely think, and (2) to have...
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Fred Hersch & esperanza spalding: Alive at the Village Vanguard
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I will keep this introduction short because I want to get this piece posted so those of you with access to the tour cities listed...
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Maybeck Recital Hall: Treasure Hunt - Part 1 [From the Archives]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For some Jazz fans, solo piano is the ultimate conceit. Unbridled and unrestrained, to their ears it represents a kind of...
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Part 1 - Dave Brubeck [1920-2012] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As you read the first installment of the multi-part interview with Dave Brubeck, one of the most influential musicians in the...
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Maybeck Recital Hall: Treasure Hunt - Part 2 [From the Archives]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Paul Berliner in his Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994] underscores...
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Part 2 - Dave Brubeck [1920-2012] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As you read the second installment of the multi-part interview with Dave Brubeck, one of the most influential musicians in the...
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Sam Woodyard: A Real Swinger [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Woodyard is a temperamental musician, but at his best is one of the greatest Jazz drummers. His work with Ellington was frequently of the...
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Maybeck Recital Hall: Treasure Hunt - Part 3 [From the Archives]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Although Carl Jefferson [the owner of Concord Records] is listed as the producer for all of the Maybeck Recital Hall solo piano...
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Part 3- Dave Brubeck [1920-2012] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As you read the third installment of the multi-part interview with Dave Brubeck, one of the most influential musicians in the...
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Herb Snitzer's Glorious Days and Nights Parts 1-8 Complete
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.When I began the blog, my intent was to post in-depth profiles of Jazz musicians and extensive pieces about a variety of Jazz...
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Konitz Meets Mulligan: Lee Konitz and The Gerry Mulligan Quartet
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Gerry Mulligan was also involved in the Birth of the Cool—you had quite a lot of contact with him over your career.I always...
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Part 4- Dave Brubeck [1920-2012] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As you read the fourth installment of the multi-part interview with Dave Brubeck, one of the most influential musicians in the...
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Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band: Young Blood Live in Amsterdam 1960
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."This is part of the thing of being self-taught. I didn't learn a system for doing things. It's like everything that I wrote an...
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Part 5- Dave Brubeck [1920-2012] - The Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As you read the fifth and concluding installment of the multi-part interview with Dave Brubeck, one of the most influential...
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Blue Note - 10” BLP’s/Connoisseur Series CD’s [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."The hardest thing about having a jazz label is that you never have enough money to pay yourself and you don’t have the reserves to grow your...
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There is No Greater Love - Dado Moroni, Jesper Lundgaard and Lee Pearson
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“[Billie] Holiday featured the composition at a Carnegie Hall concert, and over the next several years "There Is No Greater Love"...
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