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Willis “Bill” Holman – Living International Treasure
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Bill Holman recently celebrated his 90th brithday and the editorial staff at JazzProfiles thought it would be fun to celebrate such an...
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La Rosa and Sinatra: The Storytellers
“He said for the boys what they wanted to say. He said to the girls what they wanted to hear. The body of excellent songs that had come into existence in the United States at last found a singer worthy...
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The Dave Holland Big Band - Something Special This Way Comes
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Whoosh!It was in incredible.My first experience listening to the Dave Holland Big Band involved a track that lasted 17.26 minutes, and yet, it...
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Nat King Cole Trio - Zurich 1950 [Swiss Radio Days Vol. 43]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.If you are a Jazz fan, I mean c’mon how could you not love Nat King Cole Trio - Zurich 1950 [Swiss Radio Days Vol. 43, Montreux Jazz Label TCB...
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Billy Strayhorn: Singular Unsung Genius by John Edward Hasse
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“They were like two aspects of a single complex self. Where Duke Ellington was immodest, priapic and thumpingly egocentric, his longtime...
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Lester Young Trio with Nat "King" Cole and Buddy Rich
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Mr recent posting about the newly released Nat King Cole Trio’s 1950 performance in Zurich brought to mind Nat’s work on another of my favorite...
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Rhythmstick
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The young revolutionary of long ago, with the horn-rimmed glasses and the beret and the goatee and the impish smile, had lived to be the elder...
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Peter Bernstein - The Bill Milkowski Interview
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Guitarist Peter Bernstein and author, writer and critic Bill Milkowski are two of my favorite Jazz people.Imagine my delight, then, when I came...
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"To The Ladies" - Annie Ross
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles has had a feature on vocalist Annie Ross of Lambert-Hendricks-Ross fame in the works for some time now, but...
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Jazz Drumming - Whitney Balliett
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Whitney Balliett was the Jazz critic for The New Yorker magazine from 1957 - 2001 and during that time no one wrote about the music in a more...
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Contemporary Concepts - Bill Holman and Stan Kenton
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In this, his 90th birthday year, the editorial staff at JazzProfiles is doing its best to help the Bill Holman celebration along by posting a...
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Re: Tom Harrell/Tommy by Gene Lees and Phil Woods
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."The [schizophrenia] disorder is such that Tommy's mind can deal with only one thing at a time, be it answering a question, playing a solo, or...
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Thelonious Monk’s Little-Known ‘Liaisons’
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following piece by Larry Blumenfeld appeared in the June 10, 2017 edition of the Wall Street Journal. More of Monk’s recorded music is...
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"These Rooms" - Jim Hall Trio Featuring Tom Harrell
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It seems like Herb Wong, the late Jazz author, education, record and concert producer and all-around good friend of Jazz was everywhere in the...
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Stan Kenton: An Introduction
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The emerging consensus … is that the Kenton output was, as a whole, neither as terrible as its critics insisted nor as celestial as its...
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Jazz in Italy: Gianluigi Trovesi - "One of Another Kind"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Passion” comes in many forms in Italian Jazz and no artist is more passionate about his music than Gianluigi TrovesiWhen the editorial staff...
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Stan Getz: A Blueprint for Perfection
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“As for Getz's playing, his style is instantly identifiable and internationally influential one for a decade even though he's only 30—was once...
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Harry Bäcklund: 1936 - 1978 - "I Remember You"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.West Coast Jazz or Jazz on the West Coast, the style of Jazz that existed primarily in California from about 1945 - 1965, and the majority of...
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Fabio Zeppetella - Chansons! [e Canzoni] - Via Veneto Jazz and Jando Music
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial offices of JazzProfiles has recently received a number of new and forthcoming recordings and we’d like to share some information...
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What Coltrane Wanted by Edward Strickland - The Atlantic Monthly, 1987
Copyright © 1987 by Edward Strickland. All rights reserved.“Coltrane never found the one line. Nor was he ever to achieve the "more beautiful … more lyrical" sound he aspired to. He complicated rather...
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