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A Bill Evans Reader
Currently available on Amazon.com exclusively as both a paperback and an eBook.I hope you'll consider a purchase.A percentage of each sale is being donated to the local school system to buy musical...
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Transcription of Spoken Text to Stan Kenton - "This Is An Orchestra!"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I suppose it’s available somewhere, but I’ve never found a copy.Whenever I’ve listened to the Prologue (This Is An Orchestra!), the...
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Don Ellis - Blindfold Test Parts 1 & 2
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The blog archives contain an 8-part series on trumpeter and bandleader Don Ellis which was published individually and collectively...
View ArticleLove For Sale - Buddy Rich
“It is an extraordinary experience to see and hear Rich at work, doing what he loves to do and does so phenomenally well. There are other great Jazz drummers, to be sure, but there is only one Buddy...
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The Passionate Conviction: An Interview with Jimmy Giuffre by Lorin Stephens...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Candid self-assessment was as much a characteristic of Jimmy Giuffre’s personality as was the constantly innovative approach he took to making...
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Johnny Richards: Big, Brash and Bold Sounds [With Video Additions]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There has been much talk in recent years about the close relationship between jazz and what is usually called classical music (or sometimes,...
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Oscar Peterson at the London House, Summer of 1961 [From the Archives]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There was a time when a cohesive, relatively long standing jazz band was recorded live for the sake of the music, pure and...
View ArticleThe Three Sounds - On Green Dolphin Street
This video features The Three Sounds performing On Green Dolphin Street from their Moods CD. Leonard Feather offered these comments about the tune’s background and the trio’s arrangement.“On Green...
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The Three Sounds [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“AT this writing it has been just a little over two years since the Three Sounds, a group formed in South Bend in 1956 and later based in...
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No New York - No Bebop, by Buddy DeFranco [Video Additions Buddy...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It’s very rare that socio-cultural change can be attributed to one cause. Usually many influences come together to produce...
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Lori Bell - Recorda Me Remembering Joe Henderson
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedFor nearly thirty years, Henderson has possessed his own sound and has developed his own angles on swing, melody, timbre and...
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Stan Levey - The Alun Morgan Interview [From the Archives with Additions]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Like Max Roach, Levey was an essential figure in the progression and development of bebop. Unlike the swing music of the 1930s and ’40s,...
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