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Contemporary Records "Studios" [!]
"Almost immediately after Roy DuNann went to work for Les Koenig in 1956, two things changed. Koenig decided to begin recording modern jazz at Contemporary, and he decided to set up his own studio. Roy...
View ArticleYusef Lateef - Atlantis Lullaby - The Concert From Avignon (Full Album)
"Yusef's Mood," which begins at 20:51, offers an incredible series of Blues choruses by Kenny Barron. Yusef on tenor and Kenny on piano with Bob Cunningham on bass and Albert "Tootie" Heath on drums.
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Part 2 -Duke Ellington - "The Hot Bach" by Richard O. Boyer
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Few writers have depicted Ellington and his world as vividly as Richard 0. Boyer in "The Hot Bach," a three-part profile published...
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A Gerry Mulligan Reader - For Your Consideration
Now with a new cover and a completely revised Table of Contents. Available as both a paperback and an eBook exclusively at Amazon.com.Table of ContentsPrologue, pp. 9-10Introduction, pp. 11-29THE...
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Part 3 -Duke Ellington - "The Hot Bach" by Richard O. Boyer
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Few writers have depicted Ellington and his world as vividly as Richard 0. Boyer in "The Hot Bach," a three-part profile published...
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2025 Jazz Parties at Melody House.
Tickets are now available for these house Jazz parties at www.debbyyeager.com/concerts. Seating is very limited.For those of you in Southern California, hope to see you at one of these.
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"Who Was Bill Evans?" - Richard Terrill
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Richard Terrill is the author of the memoir Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz, and two collections of poetry, including...
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Kenny Clarke - Jazz Pioneer by Ed Thigpen
© Introduction. Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.This great tribute to Kenny Clarke by Ed Thigpen appeared in the February 1984 issue of Modern Drummer. Since it is...
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Stan Getz - East of the Sun: The West Coast Sessions - The Ted Gioia Notes...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Flawless technique, perfect time, strong melodic sense and more than enough harmonic expertise, fabulous memory, and great ears. Add a superb...
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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,...
View Article"Teef" - Louis Hayes Quintet
Check out Yusef Lateef's big, bluesy, bar walking tenor sax solo on this one. Man, could he bring it. My thanks to Gary Foster for hipping me to this one. "Teef," indeed!
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Solo Jazz Piano at Maybeck Recital Hall: A Treasure Hunt Remembered
"In 1989, JoAnne Brackeen was about to do a solo performance at Maybeck Hall, a small and exquisite location in Berkeley, California, with an excellent piano. She called Carl Jefferson to ask that he...
View ArticleCharlie Barnet Orchestra: Over the rainbow. (1949) - Tiny Kahn arrangement
This takes about 20 seconds for the music to kick in.Tiny was very advanced harmonically. His arrangement of Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow" for the Barnet band indicates where he was going. He wrote...
View ArticleLa Nevada - Gil Evans - "Ou of the Cool"
Producer Creed Taylor recalls the album's fifteen-minute-plus centerpiece: "La Nevada was not only original but was totally spontaneous. "Gil started noodling at the piano for a while, and he started...
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