THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - TANGERINE - Featuring Paul Desmond, alto sax
"Paul too was an underestimated player. But time is lending perspective, and in the years since we lost him I have come more and more to admire his brilliance. He plays a solo on Tangerine that is no...
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Maria Schneider: A Music That Is Movingly Majestic
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra. All rights reserved.“ … when you look at Maria's resume: she studied composition with Bob Brookmeyer, and spent three years as Gil Evans' musical assistant. From...
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A Common Language - Steve Nelson, Joris Teepe and Eric Ineke
© Introduction. Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There’s no telling what we’ll play in the second set,” bystanders overheard bassist Joris Teepe say at the...
View ArticleMichel Petrucciani Bésame Mucho Looking Up
"There's no music in the instrument. The music is in you." - Barney Kessel, guitarist
View ArticleTheme For Sister Salvation (Remastered) - In Honor of Jackie McLean's...
I dare you to get this march theme out of your head.Leonard Bernstein supposedly whistled it while exiting the theater after seeing the play.The sound of Jackie's horn on this recording is, for me, the...
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Bill Perkins - The Gordon Jack Interview [With Revisions and Additions]
Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Nobody could have been luckier" than to play with Herman and Kenton, Perkins told the Los Angeles Times."Though they were both very...
View ArticleSamba With Some Barbecue - Paul Desmond - SUMMERTIME
Don Sebesky arrangement.What a rhythm section - Herbie Hancock, piano, Joe Beck, guitar, Ron Carter, bass and Airto Moreira, drums.
View ArticlePaul Desmond - Lady In Cement - SUMMERTIME.
7/4 and 5/4 replacing 4/4 in this beautiful treatment.
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Transitioning to Cerra.Substack.Com
After over 15 years of posting new features to the JazzProfiles blog, beginning June 1st of this year, these will be posted exclusively for paid memberships at cerra.substack.com.This transition to...
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AN AUDIENCE WITH MILT BERNHART - Part 1 [With Revisions and Additions[
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.This is a wonderful interview with Milt Bernhart [1926-2004], the late big band and studio trombonist who was resident in Los...
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AN AUDIENCE WITH MILT BERNHART - Part 2 [With Additions and Revisions]
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. This is a wonderful interview with Milt Bernhart [1926-2004], the late big band and studio trombonist who was resident in Los...
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Remembering Bill Holman [1927-2024]
According to Andre Previn as quoted in Leonard Feather's "Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz": "Bill Holman was a first-rate tenor saxophonist, but his true instrument is the orchestra, and he plays it...
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"Miles Davis, 'The Prince of Silence'" - Mike Zwerin [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here’s the second in Mike Zwerin’s fine series Sons of Miles which he posted to Culturekiosque Jazznet. “Miles Davis, "The Prince of...
View ArticleMaynard Ferguson and His Orchestra - Oleo
Maynard Ferguson (tp), Don Ellis, Jerry Tyree, Clyde Reasinger (tp), Slide Hampton, Don Sebesky (tb), Jimmy Ford (as), Carmen Leggio, Willie Maiden (ts), John Lanni (bs), Joe Zawinul (p), Jimmy Rowser...
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