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Rosario Giuliani - Sassofonista Straordinario [alto saxophonist...
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The musicianship of Rosario Giuliani is exhilarating. His total package of performance, composition and improvisation is not so much a...
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Exploring The Scene with The Poll Winners - Barney, Ray and Shelly
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.This post features another recording from our earliest Jazz experiences which the editorial staff at JazzProfiles wanted to commend to you as...
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In Bloom Again With Blossom Dearie [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Listening to Blossom Dearie sing is like following the flight of a dandelion seed. Her feather-soft voice warbles and reels while a warm,...
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Peter Clayton, Insert Notes to Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Gene was a lovely man. I always had been kind of impressed that all the leaders I worked for were such good people. Gene was a...
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Rob Pronk: The Bebop Years - Studio Sessions 1950-1957 [NJA 2001] - The...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Over the years, many venues in Europe recorded performances by visiting American Jazz luminaries during the heyday of the modern...
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George T. Simon Insert Notes to Elliot Lawrence Band Plays Gerry Mulligan...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.* * * * . . . Mulligan's scores. . .are marked by [his] warmth and taste. . The section work is wonderfully firm and precise and...
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Bill Evans “in” Paris “with” Gene Lees [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. “It is difficult for me to write about Bill. His life, Helen's [Keane, Bill’s producer], and my own were too closely involved for too long a...
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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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Claude Thornhill, Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan: Three of a Mind
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Well, I suppose it must have been after the Krupa band that I started to play the baritone. I don't really know why I did it. I...
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Jazz Literature on the Career of Gary McFarland [From the Archives]
This blog posting features a collection of four articles on Gary McFarland, an American Jazz Composer and Arranger and orchestra leader, who lived from 1933 to 1971.It is essentially an unedited...
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"These Rooms" - Jim Hall Trio Featuring Tom Harrell [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It seems like Herb Wong, the late Jazz author, education, record and concert producer and all-around good friend of Jazz was everywhere in the...
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"Herbie Nichols: It Never Happened" by Steve Siegel
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“HOW DOES AN ARTIST CREATE in such a way that his art is at once timeless, in that it is relevant to any generation, and...
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Harry "Sweets" Edison - The Barbara Gardner Interview [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Bravo, Barbara!I want to congratulate Barbara Gardner for the splendid work she's done on articles interviewing jazz vocalists. So far I've...
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Gerry Mulligan and Stan Kenton - Opposites That Didn't Attract [Excerpts from...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In her biography, Straight Ahead - The Story Of Stan Kenton, Carol Easton refers to a personality clash between Kenton and...
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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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Buddy Rich - "The Monster" - At Rest [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.BUDDY RICH «The Monster »« II a toujours porté un monstre en lui durant sa carrière longue, colorée, explosive et controversée ». C'est en ces...
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Peter Welding, Gerry Mulligan Insert Notes to CD Reissue Birth of the Cool...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Around the same time that Mulligan began arranging for Elliot Lawrence, as Doug Ramsey explains in his essay Big Bands, Jazz...
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Pianist Eddie Higgins From Two Perspectives [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It recently came to the attention of the editorial staff at JazzProfiles that a friend of these pages is a huge Eddie Higgins fan. So we...
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Gerry Mulligan and Charlie Parker - Ira Gitler "From Swing to Bop"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Because of the great disparity in their style of playing in particular and their approach to Jazz in general, Jazz fans are usually...
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Rod Levitt - "the discipline and full sound of a big band with the solo...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."When I got out of the Army in 1949 and returned to my studies at the University of Washington, I soon discovered the afternoon jam...
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