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Roger Kellaway - STRIDE!
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Bill Crow - bassist, author and all-round good guy, has a rule-to-live-by, one which he stresses over-and-over again, and it is that -...
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Remembering Don Redman: 1900-1964 - The First Master of Jazz Orchestration
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Redman was an outstanding jazz arranger and the first master of jazz orchestration; several of his innovations have since become standard...
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Blue Moka Featuring Fabrizio Bosso a New Realese from Via Veneto Jazz/Jando...
© -Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Matteo Pagano ‘s Via Veneto Jazz in conjunction with Jando Music recently released a new CD - Blue Moka Featuring Fabrizio Bosso [VVJ 122...
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Blue Hour – Stanley Turrentine with The 3 Sounds
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles has plans to include more about tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine in a future feature about “the...
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Buddy DeFranco - Tommy Gumina Quartet
© -Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“This album marks the inauguration of what may become an important alliance in modem music. Though individually known for years to wide but...
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Carla Bley - The Don Palmer Interview
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."I'm just a composer, and I use jazz musicians because they're better. They play better, they're smarter, and they can save your ass in a bad...
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Emily Remler: Jazz Guitarist
© - 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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James Moody
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.A Moody AfternoonReflections on DizzyGene LeesJazzletterOctober 2005“Of all the musicians in Dizzy Gillespie's life - and the list of those he...
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More [and More] Mulligan
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedThis blog posting features a collection of articles on Gerry Mulligan, an American Jazz composer and arranger, baritone saxophone player and...
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Benny Carter, 1907 – 2003: A Tribute
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."There are interesting parallels in the careers of Benny Carter and Don Redman. Both are gifted, versatile musicians, multi-instrumentalists,...
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John Altman: World Class Composer, Arranger, Conductor & Saxophonist
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.This was the first interview the editorial staff at JazzProfiles ever conducted and it came during the very first year of the blog's...
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Robert Farnon: An Arranger’s Arranger
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“[Although a Canadian who spent most of his professional career in Englandfollowing a posting there during WW II,] Robert Farnon’s...
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Grant Green: The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I know I’ve shared this view before, but it bears repeating. Over the years, my enjoyment of Jazz has been considerably enhanced by the wise...
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Frank D. Waldron and Seattle Syncopated Classics - The Greg Ruby Project
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The problem with Jazz as an art form is that it hasn’t always been considered so. For most of its existence, the music has had a limited...
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Nat Pierce - Big Band University
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.If there’s anyone who was more beloved in Jazz big band circles in the second half of the 20th century than pianist, composer-arranger and...
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Oliver Nelson - 1932-1975
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Oliver Nelson was a brilliant saxophonist, composer, arranger and orchestrator – a gift of Jazz – who was taken away from us much too...
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OLIVER NELSON INTERVIEW By JOHN COBLEY
© -Steven Cerra. Copyright protected; all rights reserved.I have long thought that had he not died so tragically young at the age of 43, Jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer Oliver Nelson may have...
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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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Bill Evans - The Secret Sessions
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As I have often remarked, this blog is as much about shining what Howard Rumsey, the late bassist and bandleader, referred to as “the solo...
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Dexter Gordon: The Chuck Berg Interview
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The King of Quoters, Dexter Gordon, was himself eminently quotable. In a day not unlike our own, when purists issue fiats about what is or...
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