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Ben Sidran: The Cat in the Hat [From The Archives]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra. All rights reserved.Once a drummer, always a drummer.It’s a different orientation, a different way of looking at and listening to Jazz.It’s what you listen for first and...
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A Bill Evans Reader - For Your Consideration
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra. All rights reserved.A Bill Evans Reader containing thirty essays, interviews and insert notes abstracts is now available on Amazon.com as a paperback and an eBook.I hope...
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Shelly Manne: “Portrait of a Jazz Success” [From the Archives with Additions]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“52nd Street was a garden – a very special place where you could learn and grow. Young players were reassured and given the courage to be...
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Los Angeles Jazz Scene - Scott Yanow
Gerry Mulligan (1927-96) had a very interesting and productive life. He started out on clarinet and also spent time playing tenor and alto before settling on the baritone sax. An arranger from an...
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Jazz from the Pacific Northwest - Shelly Manne and His Men
© Introduction. Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.We Were All Influenced by Him: A Conversation with Joe LaBarberaAbout Shelly ManneA Sound Colorist: Peter Erskine...
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Ramsey Lewis "Soul Survivor" - The Barbara Gardner Interview [From the...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Signifyin’ and testifyin’ and other ritualistic elements of the Sanctified Church are important elements in helping Black people cultivate and...
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The Stan Kenton Orchestra 1952-53
Coming after the Innovations Orchestra and before the much beloved Back to Balboa [1955] and Contemporary Concepts [1958] band, the 1952-53 Kenton Orchestra sometimes referred to a the New Concepts of...
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Louis Stewart - Louis the First [Livia Records LRCD 2401]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedDerek Jewell - Sunday Times: "With luck he really could become the best jazz guitarist in the world."Jack Carter - Crescendo:...
View ArticleWes Montgomery Trio - A Dynamic New Sound
Wes on guitar with Mel Rhyne Hammond B-3 Organ and Paul Parker on drums.
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Bob Florence Limited Edition by Gordon Jack
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedGordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journaland a very generous friend in allowingJazzProfilesto re-publish his...
View ArticlePancho from Latinville by Victor Feldman
The soloists are Frank Rosolino on trombone and Walter Benton on tenor saxophone.
View ArticleShorty Rogers-Powder Puff.
Album "Shorty Rogers Short Stops" Shorty Rogers (arr,cond,tp), Milt Bernhart (tb), John Grass (fb), Gene Englund (tuba), Art Pepper (as), Jimmy Giuffre (ts), Hampton Hawes (p) Joe Mondragon (b), Shelly...
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Shorty Rogers Is Long On West Coast Jazz [From the Archives with Additions]
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The definition of "West Coast Jazz?" You know, I've been asked that question so many times. It's a hard one. I'm not trying to evade...
View ArticleAhmad Jamal Cheek To Cheek (Live At The Spotlite Club, Washington, D.C./1958)
with Israel Crosby on base and Vernel Fournier on drums.
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