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Emily Remler: Jazz Guitarist [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Her time is so sure, so flowing, that it’s as natural to her as breathing. So is her warmth - of tone and conception. Emily’s a natural...
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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records - Ashley Kahn
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Once again, Ashley Kahn brings his passion, precision, and graceful writing style to an important jazz subject. The exciting inside story...
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Nat "King" Cole - The Gene Lees Essay - Part 1
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“You never lose that Jazz feeling.”- Nat “King” Cole to Don Freeman, October 6, 1950, Downbeat“The chemistry of Cole-and-Capitol would...
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Lee Konitz - The Gordon Jack Interview [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles wanted to do something special to honor alto saxophonist Lee Konitz’s upcoming appearance at the Los...
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Nat "King" Cole - The Gene Lees Essay - Part 2
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."I know that a lot of you critics think that I've been fluffing off jazz, but I don't think that you've been looking at the problem...
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The Forgotten Ones - Buddy Collette: The Gordon Jack Essay
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“If I were going to pick a guy to open the Hollywood studio doors as Jackie Robinson did for baseball, Buddy would have been the man”.-...
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Hamilton & Hamilton - Not A Law Firm
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Tenor luminary Scott Hamilton was at the forefront of a new generation of young artists that helped revitalize mainstream acoustic...
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Phil Woods - November 2, 1931 - September 29, 2015: Rest in Peace
Philip Wells [Phil] WoodsBorn: Springfield, Massachusetts, November 2, 1931© -Reprinted with the permission of Gene Lees; copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Phil Woods sometimes refers to...
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Phil Woods - Searing Intensity
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Phil played as if there were no tomorrow.”- Chuck Israels, Jazz bassistFor me, the phrase “searing intensity” used in a Jazz context...
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Phil Woods - The Steve Voce Interview
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected, all rights reserved, used with the author’s permission.“"There was a very specific reason why Phil played on nearly every album I've made since 1956, because...
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Phil and Quill - [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Those who demand the originality of geniuses who create entirely new art without any history are chasing an illusion: it doesn't exist....
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Phil Woods and The European Rhythm Machine - Redux
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Mr. Woods was one of the leading alto saxophonists in the generation that followed Charlie Parker, who had set an imposing new bar for...
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Phil Woods: My Life in E-Flat - "Goodbye, Mr. Woods"
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.[For those of you who may not be familiar with Phil's original compositions, when the pianist Bill Evans died in 1981, Phil wrote a...
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