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Wes Montgomery - The Orrin Keepnews Essay
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Along with Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery formed a triumvirate of plectorists who were arguably the most...
View ArticleRob McConnell and The Boss Brass - "Peace/Blue Silver"
Here’s a video tribute to Rob and The Boss Brass that uses as its audio track one of Rob’s arrangement in which he combines Horace Silver’s Peace into a medley with trumpeter Blue Mitchell’s Blue...
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The Ray Brown Trio at Starbucks
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.A FIRST FOR STARBUCKSBefore the music begins, Ray Brown, Geoff Keezer and Karriem Riggins blend into the crowd, sipping freshly pressed...
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George Shearing and Leonard Feather
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Leonard Feather has dedicated his life to the development and propagation of jazz, mainly as a distinguished journalist and critic. This...
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Nat King Cole Sings and George Shearing Plays" - An Unlikely Pairing
© -Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“At the time of their births the chances of the two principals' in this lively and appealing album ever meeting, let alone combining forces...
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George Shearing: An Essay by Dick Katz
George Shearing: An Essay by Dick Katz© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The live performances in this collection are unusually interesting, and are in many instances, a...
View ArticleFull Album/LP! Jazz - The George Shearing Quintet - Latin Escapade (1956)
If you didn't know that it was Shearing on piano, you'd think you were listening to a well-schooled pianist who was brought up in the Latin Jazz tradition. George had some pretty wicked Latin Jazz...
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In Appreciation Of George Shearing by Simon Pilbrow
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Frequent visitors to the pages might recall a posting earlier this year [2018] about a compact disc entitled Colours of Sound - by Simon...
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George Shearing on Erroll Garner
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.- “Young Garner's father was a singer who played several instruments, as did his older brother, Linton. Erroll was an entirely self-taught...
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CuberQuest - Ronnie Cuber Quartet - Airplay
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“ An astonishingly lyrical player on that most unforgiving of instruments… It is the intelligence and subtlety of his playing that shines...
View ArticleRonnie Cuber - Baritone Saxophonist
Baritone Saxophonist Ronnie Cuber performing Charles Mingus'"O.P." with Holland's Metropole Orchestra featuring Randy Brecker on trumpet and Conrad Herwig on trombone. The arrangement is by Ilja...
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CuberQuest - Ronnie Cuber - The Gordon Jack Interview
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.When Gordon Jack, the author of Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective and frequent contributor to Jazz periodicals such as JazzJournal...
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