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For Your Consideration
© Introduction. Copyright ® Steven Cerra. All rights reserved.Thanks to your support, to date we’ve sold 220 copies of the following Readers and donated $500 to the Gerry and Franca Mulligan...
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A Dave Brubeck Reader, Volume 1, 1948-1972
The following will be available as an eBook from Amazon.com on 8.1.2024 -And in a paperback format as well
View ArticleLuminescence
This is based on "How High The Moon." See if you can carry the original melody in your head while you listen along as the soloists construct their own melodies over the song's chords.
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Stanley Turrentine: Texas or ... Pittsburgh? [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“He said, ‘I'm Stanley Turrentine.’For whatever reason, I had never met him before, although I had certainly enjoyed his playing,...
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Monday Orchestra Un Poco Loco The Music of Bud Powell - Luca Missiti
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra. All rights reserved.“What Missiti has done is to wrap Bud’s theme in a palette of tonal colors that only a big band framework can offer.In doing so, he provides the...
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Denny Zeitlin - Panoply
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."The good thing about being famous," quipped the late Howard Gossage [an advertising innovator and iconoclast during the ‘Mad Men’ era...
View ArticleThe Eternal Triangle - The Ken Peplowski Big Band
Stay with this one as it's one, wild ride. The arrangement is by Mark Lopeman.
View ArticlePeter Beets Trio Live at The Concertgebouw - Tristity (2005)
Peter Beets - piano Frans van Geest - bass Gijs Dijkhuizen - drums 'Tristity' (Peter Beets) Peter Beets Trio - Live At The Concertgebouw Volume 1 Recorded at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam 2005 Maxanter Records
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Ken Peplowski Live at Mezzrow
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra. All rights reserved.Aside from admiring him greatly, if truth be told, I’m not that familiar with either Ken Peplowski or his music, although I’ve been in his direct...
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Now Available - A Dave Brubeck Reader, Volume 1 - 1948 to 1972 By Steven A....
Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Should you like to purchase a copy, here’s the Table of Contents for - A Dave Brubeck Reader, Volume 1 - 1948 to 1972 which is now...
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Harry James: Parts 1-6 Complete [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Some think he is “the best of all,” others accuse him of having gone too blatantly commercial. Like in many things in life, the truth about...
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Bruce Talbot 1939-2024 R.I.P.
Terry Vosbein of the Stan Kenton Research Center shared this obituary from John Edward Hasse to the Stan Kenton Appreciation Group.Bruce Talbot, 1939-2024Bruce Talbot, an esteemed and prolific record...
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Remembering Conrad Gozzo - 1922-1964
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“It is certainly not everyday that a justly famous jazz trumpeter, making his solo recording debut, is given the opportunity to demonstrate...
View ArticleBesame Mucho
Alto saxophonist Art Pepper with Russ Freeman on piano, Ben Tucker on bass and Gary Frommer on drums.Upon it's release in 1956, this recording made quite a stir and brought Art a lot of well-deserved...
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3 Shades of Blue Miles Davis John Coltrane and Bill Evans and the Lost Empire...
More to come - “PrologueJazz?? What kind of jazz are we talking about?A comedian on a late-night talk show did a bit about the awfulness of dating. He said the two worst date ideas he'd ever heard...
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Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Hampton Hawes [1928–1977] was one of Jazz's greatest pianists. With the help of Don Asher, a jazz pianist and author of nine books, Hawes wrote...
View ArticleCelia - Benny Green Trio 1993
Benny Green playing "out of his mind" on Bud Powell's "Celia.""Stick around" [pun intended] for Carl Allen's amazing brush work solo."
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