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"Where's The Melody" By Martin Williams [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."A short, model primer on jazz, in which Mr. Williams triumphantly makes a difficult subject seem difficult and absolutely...
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Eli “Lucky” Thompson [From the Archives]
© Introduction Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Lucky Thompson was a vastly under-acclaimed tenor saxophonist.”- Doug RamseyEli “Lucky” Thompson was born on June 16,...
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Jazz in Paris
© -Volkher Hofmann, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Jazz went to Paris and other places in Europe to live. That might sound funny to many of those who don't spend a lot of time listening to...
View ArticleFrank Rosolino- Violets- with the Metropole Orchestra
Something beautiful this way comes.
View ArticlePancho from Latinville by Victor Feldman
The soloists are Frank Rosolino on trombone and Walter Benton on tenor saxophone.
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Grover Sales - "Jazz: America's Classical Music"
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Strongly opinionated and superbly literate, longtime Bay Area resident Grover Sales was the kind of jazz critic who left no doubt about...
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Shelly Manne - Jazz as "Street Music"
"CB: Once, at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco, a young drummer came up to you and asked how long you had studied. You replied that you had about a year of formal study, and the rest you had...
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The Ghosts in the Machine by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musiciansMy thanks to Ted Gioia at his The Honest Broker on Substack for hipping me to this article.Vinyl, CDs, subscriptions to Jazz FM radio stations are perhaps not as...
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Remembering The Curtis Counce Group
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra 2024 All rights reserved."The Curtis Counce quintet is one of the great neglected jazz bands of the 1950s. The reasons for this neglect are difficult to pinpoint.” - Ted...
View ArticleHarold Land - Grooveyard [Carl Perkins]
The following video features Carl’s composition Grooveyard as performed by tenor saxophonist Harold Land’s quintet featuring Carl on piano along with Rolf Ericsson, trumpet, Leroy Vinnegar, bass and...
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Now Available - Jazz West Coast Reader Volume 3
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Now available as a paperback and eBook exclusively on Amazon.com. I've priced these very reasonably at $24.99 and $9.99,...
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NUEVA MANTECA - CRIME! [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“As indicated earlier, Nueva Manteca, inspired by the work of Jamal, generally approaches songs more as a 'compositional device' which allows...
View ArticleNueva Manteca And Nicky Marrero - Afrodisia (1991)
Bass Guitar – Boudewijn Lucas Congas [Tumbadora & Quinto], Shekere – Martin Verdonk Drums – Lucas Van Merwijk Piano, Leader, Arranged By – Jan Laurens Hartong Recorded By, Mixed By – Tjeerd Van...
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Revisiting Drummer Jack Sperling and the Les Brown Band
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In a town loaded with talented drummers, Jack Sperling held his own in any...
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