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Tom Harrell, Like Night and Day by Jonathan Eig, Esquire, December 1998
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff has received a number of requests to select out of our longer profile on Tom Harrell the following Like Night and Day...
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Paul Horn's Jazz Impressions of CLEOPATRA [From The Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Recent research has revealed that Antony and Cleopatra - one of history's most romantic couples - were not the great beauties that Hollywood...
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A Conversation About Jazz With Bill Kirchner
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Over the years, I learned a great deal about Jazz from Bill Kirchner. Not first-hand, mind you, as I live on the Left Coast and he lives on the...
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Bill Evans - Piano Player
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Sooner or later, it seemed that many of the major Jazz artists of the 2nd half of the 20th century recorded for Columbia.Some, like Miles...
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Brian Lynch - Peer Pressure [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In his incisive and informative insert notes for Brian Lynch's Peer Pressure, a Criss Cross recording [1029 CD], Mike Hennessy offers up the...
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Jim Snidero: Jazz Alto Saxophone Revisited
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“For most of the last three decades, the tenor saxophone has dominated the forest of jazz woodwinds, its dark, obviously romantic shadow...
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The Clarke Boland Big Band is "All Smiles"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Georges Paczynski, the author of the immensely important, Une Histoire de la Batterie de Jazz, which won the “Prix Charles Delauney 2000,”...
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Pops and O.P. - "You Go To My Head"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Louis Armstrong was the father of “vernacular music,” which was made possible by the microphone. Anyone with any kind of contemporary...
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Mulgrew Miller: “Living in the Shadows of Giants”
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Don’t cross a bridge to get home or to work:” I guess the expression contains more than a hint of caution and admonition, especially if you’ve...
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Shorty Rogers - Chances Are ... It Swings
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.At the time of its issuance in 1959, I took the personnel on Shorty Rogers’ RCA album Chances Are It Swings [RD-27149 MONO; LSP-1978 Stereo]...
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Jeroen de Valk's Biography of Chet Baker: Revised,Updated and Expanded
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."As a touring artist you are constantly surrounded by people who want something from you. People ask you for everything imaginable, offer...
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Oscar Peterson - The Canadiana Suite
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Way back when, I never knew much about the comings-and-goings of Jazz artists on Jazz record labels.What I did “know” was that pianist...
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Freddie Redd - The Thespian
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Freddie Redd has an endless imagination for melody.”- Mabel Fraser, Jazz author“Freddie Redd is a real master of melody. He has a lot more to...
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Dave Brubeck: A Life in American Music - Parts 1-3 Complete
The United States of America celebrates it 241st birthday today. Dave Brubeck was alive during 92 of those years and a performing and recording musician for well over 70 of them.I can't think of a...
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Miles Davis and Modal Jazz
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“When Gil [Evans]wrote the arrangement of "I Loves You, Porgy," he only wrote a scale for me. No chords. And that... gives you a lot more...
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Bob Cooper, Quietly, Always There
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“One of the major West Coast saxophonists of the 1950’s, Cooper's utter professionalism and consistency suggest a kinship with like-minded...
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Jeroen de Valk's Biography of Chet Baker: Revised,Updated and Expanded
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."As a touring artist you are constantly surrounded by people who want something from you. People ask you for everything imaginable, offer...
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Dave Stryker - "Strykin' Ahead"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.On his Live at the Blue Note CD, Paquito D’Rivera, introduces the band members to the audience with a particular emphasis on the diverse...
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Rosario Giuliani - Sassofonista Straordinario [alto saxophonist extraordinaire]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The musicianship of Rosario Giuliani is exhilarating. His total package of performance, composition and improvisation is not so much a...
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A Word or Two About Conte Candoli
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Born in Mishawaka, Indiana, Candoli toured with several big bands from the late 1940s onwards and moved to California in 1954, where he became...
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