From Rags To Richards (2003 Digital Remaster)
Happy Birthday to Emil Richards, a musician with the greatest collection of percussion gear on the Left Coast.
View ArticleEmily (Live) - Oscar Peterson at Royal Festival Hall in 1978
It's always more difficult to play slow than it is to play fast.Oscar Peterson is generally associated with all-things-fast, but he gives this Johnny Mandel classic a beautiful, slow and introspective...
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Thinking in Jazz - "Seeing Out A Bit" [From the Archives]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“It all goes from imitation to assimilation to innovation. You move from the imitation stage to the assimilation stage when you...
View ArticleBuddy Rich Trio, Hamburg, Germany 1977
Buddy Rich performs "There is No Greater Love" with the late Barry Kiener (20 years old here) on piano and Tom Warrington on bass during the 1977 Killer Force tour of Germany.
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Ted Gioia’s The Jazz Standards - Second Edition
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I look forward to Ted Gioia’s books about Jazz with the same excitement and anticipation that greets the arrival of the next...
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Thinking in Jazz - "Imitation, Assimilation and Innovation: Evolving a Unique...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“What a great musician Cozy Cole was. He was one of those guys who practices very diligently at all times. I was able to just sit...
View ArticleJJ Johnson - Fatback
“I first heard Cedar on the J.J. Incorporated record on Columbia. I was a high school student in New York and a friend of mine who was a little older than me and also into jazz hipped me to this...
View ArticleAnimation - Cedar Walton
From 1978.This album finds Cedar in a Jazz-Fusion "bag" and featured on Fender Rhodes piano along with trombonist Steve Turre, tenor saxophonist Bob Berg, bassist Tony Dumas and drummer Al Foster.
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Thinking in Jazz - "Learning to Improvise - Conversing with the Piece" [From...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I think the first time I was ever aware of improvising to music was when I noticed an Uncle who whistled stuff that was vaguely...
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Ivan Lins - "My Heart Speaks" - Resonance Records
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.RESONANCE RECORDS IS PROUD TO PRESENTBRAZILIAN LEGEND IVAN LINS WITH A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAIN THE MOST SUMPTUOUS ALBUM OF HIS...
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From Richard Palmer's 1988 monograph on Getz:
"He has refined saxophone technique and mastery to the ultimate; he has achieved a corpus of work which for both supreme consistency and wide-ranging beauty can hardly be equaled, let alone bettered;...
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Thinking in Jazz - "Storytelling Ability " [From the Archives]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I have yet to find a better book at explaining what goes into making Jazz than Paul Berliner’s Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art...
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Thinking in Jazz - "Storytelling in Jazz: Composing in the Moment" [From the...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“After you initiate the solo, one phrase determines what the next is going to be. From the first note that you hear, you are...
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