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Steve Grossman and Michel Petrucciani
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In Paris on January 4, 1998, Francis Dreyfus, the owner of Dreyfus Jazz, was having dinner with pianist extraordinaire Michel...
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Remembering Sheldon Meyer – Jazz Editor
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Sheldon Meyer, a distinguished editor of nonfiction books who was almost single-handedly responsible for the Americanization of Oxford...
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Charlie Mariano: Jazz Saxophonist - A Career Overview [1923 - 2009]
© -Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I don’t know any Jazzman who has as good a sense of melodic development in his solos as Charlie. The lines he finds! And he’s so warm.”-...
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Johnny Richards: Big, Brash and Bold Sounds
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There has been much talk in recent years about the close relationship between jazz and what is usually called classical music (or sometimes,...
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Unpreparedness and Listening to Jazz
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In the next few years, I listened with increasing frequency to the newer jazz forms, began to feel able to have my own pro-and-con opinions,...
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Eddy Louiss, Ivan Jullien and PORGY & BESS
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. (...) Paris was...
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The Improbability of the Clarke Boland Big Band
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As has been the case recently with many of the earlier postings that have appeared on the blog in multiple or sequential formats, the...
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Dick Haymes by Bobby Scott
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.JazzLetter, August, 1984The Dick Haymes Enigma - Bobby Scott“For those whose intelligence never got beyond the merely clever, Dick Haymes...
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Nuevo Tango - Jazz Tango - Pablo Ziegler Trio
© -Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jazz is all about syncopated rhythm and as Wynton Marsalis has postulated: “When you change the rhythm, you change the music.”The...
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Wes Montgomery - In Paris: The Definitive ORTF Recording on Resonance Records
© -Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In some ways, I think of Resonance as the house that Wes Montgomery and Bill Evans built, so we are deeply indebted to protecting those...
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The Terry Gibbs Dream Band
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Whether it’s the arrangements, the ensemble playing, the solos or the rhythm section, one would be hard-pressed to find a better big band in...
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Nat King Cole and Billy May: An Odd Couple
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.You ever get one of those tunes going in your mind? The one that you keep hearing over and over again? Maybe it goes away for a day or...
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Jack Montrose: “Over Before It Began”
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. “During the fifties, when the jazz media spotlight shone brightly on Los Angeles, Jack Montrose's writing and playing were very important...
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"The Man I Love" - Composed by Gershwin Performed by Feldman
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As Victor Feldman recounted to John Tynan in a 1963 interview for Downbeat, “I was newly married and Cannonball had called me about a...
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On Caravan with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
© -Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Orrin Talks About The Keepnews Collection“This is a series of reissues that can be described as largely centered on my incredibly long (even...
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Bassist Andrew Simpkins Remembers Sarah Vaughan
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“What I am about to do really can't be done at all, and that is to do justice to Sarah Vaughan in words. Her art is so remarkable, so unique...
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Johnny Smith: Quiet and Dignified
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."As far as I'm concerned, no one in the world plays the guitar better than he. They might play it differently, but nobody plays better. Johnny...
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Marty Paich
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Dans The Broadway Bit, I Get Boot Of You et What's New, il remet tranquillement en cause la conception usuelle du grand orchestre, car...
View ArticleEd Brown’s Auto Shop – Classic Cars Meet The Jazz Orchestra
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles has a great fondness for melding artwork and Jazz.Such combinations are just another way of having fun with...
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Herb Geller - A Career Retrospective by Noal Cohen
© -Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Noal Cohen maintains a Jazz history website replete with a number of discographies of important Jazz artists and he is also the co-author...
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