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Paul Desmond - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings featuring Jim Hall [From...
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Paul Desmond and Doug Ramsey were pals.All of us should be so lucky to have a friend like, Doug.In honor of his late, buddy’s...
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The Couriers of Jazz - "England's Greatest Jazz Combo" - by Ralph J. Gleason
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In his review of the recent publication of Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews by Yale University for the September 2016...
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Wayne Shorter's "Wayning Moments" by Don Gold
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As the masthead states - “JazzProfiles is dedicated to “focused profiles on Jazz and its makers while also featuring the work of guest writers...
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Shirley Horn: Live at The Four Queens
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Vocalist Shirley Horn’s singing style has been described as reflective, compelling, sparsely evocative, sweetly sensuous - a mood singer par...
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The Saxophone and Jazz
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Written from the standpoint of the early 1980’s and published in one of the earliest editions of Gene Lees Jazzletter, Mike Zwerin’s concluding...
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Pops - A Remembrance of Louis Armstrong by Milton Hinton
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I’ve been around the Jazz world for 60 years.In that time and in that world, no one has been more revered than Louis Armstrong.The following...
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The Montgomery Brothers and George Shearing: An Intriguing Musical...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.One of the aspects of Jazz that I have always been intrigued with is its many styles.If, as Louis Armstrong states – “Jazz is who you are” –...
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Kandinsky and Kenton: An Artistic Accord [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Beginning in the mid-1940’s, Kenton found an enthusiastic, ever-growing, devoted audience. His music seemingly spoke to the postwar young and...
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Tadd Dameron - Fontainebleau - Max Harrison [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Fontainebleau originates from Tadd Dameron’s last full year of freedom [1956] before the term of imprisonment that more of less ended his...
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Terry Gibbs Dream Band - One More Time
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.During the twenty-five years or so of its existence, West Coast Jazz was derided and chided as bloodless, boring and banal by musicians,...
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Cinema Italia
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Matteo Pagano at Via Veneto Jazz and his associates at Jando Music are releasing Cinema Italia [VVJ 110] on October 28, 2016, It will be...
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Barney, Ray and Shelly [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Guitarist Barney Kessel, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne helped me to come of age in Jazz.Initially through the series of “Poll...
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Willis Conover - 1920-1996 - Jazz's Voice to the World [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The collective broadcasts of Willis Conover are an American national treasure of inconceivable value.”- Gene Lees, Jazz author, editor and...
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Dexter Gordon - To Lester from Dexter with ... Cheese Cake
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I could listen to Dexter Gordon play the tenor saxophone all night.There was a time in my life when I often did.Dexter made a batch of LP’s for...
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William Claxton: Eye on Cool [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There’s a lot of young guys shooting pictures, but I can’t think of anyone who really stands out like Claxton,” says Ray Avery, the...
View ArticleBILL EVANS - SOME OTHER TIME: THE LOST SESSION FROM THE BLACK FOREST
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.40-page CD booklet features interviews with Bill Evans Trio members Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette and essays by celebrated author and critic...
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Thomas "Fats" Waller - 1904-1943 [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."My father [Fats Waller] had a unique system to reward inventiveness in improvisation. Pop kept two bottles of gin on a table during the...
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Diana Krall: The Price of Making It [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Diana Krall's biggest problem in the jazz world is success.Singing is closer to the actor's art than the musician's. The real trick of the...
View ArticleErroll Garner - "Ready Take One"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It’s always great to have news of a new release of music by Erroll Garner, one of our all-time favorite Jazz pianists.Ready Take One is being...
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Buddy Rich - "The Monster" - At Rest
© -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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