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Shelly Manne & His Men at The Blackhawk: A Review of the Jazz Literature
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“One of the finest and swingingest mainstream recordings ever made…”- Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th...
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Sonny and John: The Rollins-Coltrane Prestige Recordings
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reservedSonny Rollins' longevity as a performer coupled with the discovery and recent Impulse! release of John Coltrane's Both Directions At Once: The...
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Shelly Manne on 52nd Street
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jazz was just beginning in 1920 and drummer Shelly Manne, in a sense, began with it as 1920 was also the year of his birth.Twenty years...
View ArticleGeorge Albert Shearing - GAS the DJ - Feat. Emily Remler
For 18 months in the mid-1980s, pianist George Shearing had a gig as a disc jockey on WNEW-AM in New York City.On his two hour Sunday night show, he would often play live in the studio on a Baldwin...
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Lost 'Trane - "Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album" - A Critical Review
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I’ve always has mixed feeling about bootlegs; broadly speaking, a term that I use to mean “unauthorized.”The upside is that they provide...
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My Man George, Wettling ... that is: A Tribute [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."George Wettling had great enthusiasm for life and for music. And, undoubtedly, he was the most important drummer in the Chicago style of...
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Mel Rhyne - A Different Approach to Jazz organ
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Rhyne immediately sounds different from the prevailing Jimmy Smith school of organ players. Instead of swirling, bluesy chords, he favors...
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