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J.J. Johnson Quintet featuring Bobby Jaspar [From the Archives}
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Bobby Jaspar's playing on these recordings is a revelation. Hardly anyone seems to know about these sides. Everyone is familiar with the...
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The Mulligan Quartets in Concert by Robert Gordon
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon’s Jazz West Coast, a seminal work on the Jazz styles and...
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Guido Basso Obituary by Gordon Jack
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Sometimes great technicians are not warm players. Guido Basso is an outstanding exception.”- Gene LeesGordon Jack is a frequent...
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Stu Williamson: A Trumpet Artist [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.A close friend and Jazz buff asked me recently: “When are you going to do a profile on Stu Williamson?”What a great idea!But where to...
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Part 1 -The Terry Gibbs Dream Band from "Terry Gibbs Good Vibes - A Life in...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“When he talks and when he plays, Terry Gibbs tells us stories, and in these pages he’s told his best one yet: his own. It is a...
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Part 2 -The Terry Gibbs Dream Band from "Terry Gibbs Good Vibes - A Life in...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I don’t know if Terry would agree with me, but I always thought that the roots for what eventually became the Monday Night Band at...
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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 -The Terry Gibbs Dream Band from "Terry Gibbs Good Vibes - A Life in...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I know this band and its music very well, having spent many happy hours listening at the Seville. The music embodies the quality...
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Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Precise and ravishing descriptions of Rollins' music, 'tireless work ethic,' inspirations, frustrations with the record industry,...
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Part 1 - The Gerry Mulligan Quartet 1952-1953 Interviews by Gordon Jack
© -Gordon Jack copyright protected; all rights reserved; used with the author’s permission.In his introduction, Gordon Jack provides this background to his interviews with the following members of the...
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Part 2 - The Gerry Mulligan Quartet 1952-1953 Interviews by Gordon Jack
© -Gordon Jack copyright protected; all rights reserved; used with the author’s permission.LARRY BUNKERLarry Bunker was born in Long Beach, California, on November 4th, 1928, and joined the group...
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Nordic Bop - Pekka Pylkkanen and Eric Ineke
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.NORDIC BOP“I am very happy that after all these years we finally have this album finished! We had a great time recording the music...
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Pete Jolly [From the Archives]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“For Pete, interpretation is the art of translating self. The composer's melody, harmony, and rhythm serve as his starting point;...
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Gerry Mulligan and The "MEETS" Recordings by Raymond Horricks
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“With an artist of Mulligan's calibre it is not difficult to find good things to say about his talent or his main innovations....
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Oscar Peterson - Bursting Out [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“If you think of the whole phrase you want to play, you shouldn't have to think about fingering at all. It should be that well integrated...
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"Gerry Mulligan Tells - The Importance of Jazz Tradition" - Downbeat, 9,21,1955
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Counterpoint Jazz MULLIGAN & BARITONE SAX From Bach and tailgate, polyphony.The hot music topic in Los Angeles last week was...
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Artie Shaw: The Anchorite, Parts 1 -3, Complete - Gene Lees [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In the late fall of 1939,... clarinetist Artie Shaw stormed off the bandstand, abandoning the money-making machine it had taken him...
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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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Louis Stewart - Out on His Own [Livia Records LRCD 2201]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Born in the Irish town of Waterford, Stewart worked in showbands (an Irish manifestation of a dance orchestra with a slightly more...
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