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"Hank Mobley - A Posthumous Appreciation" by Larry Kart
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.From every standard of judgement - improvisational brilliance centered on memorable melodic lines, intonation and facility on the...
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Little Blue Byrd: [Booker Little, Blue Mitchell and Donald Byrd]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I have long been a great fan of the efforts of Kenny Mathieson to chronicle stylistic developments in post World War II Jazz. He began...
View ArticleNick Brignola: Roaring and Soaring on Baritone Saxophone [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“He favored the big side of the horn, playing a hard-bop vocabulary with great power and command. … his virtues are a great sound, great...
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Jack Costanzo - The Steven Harris Interview - November, 1994
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."After I celebrated my one-year anniversary with the band, I had the courage to ask Stan for a raise. He happily obliged, saying: 'You're...
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Jack Costanzo - The Steven Harris Interview - August, 2013
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In August, 2013, Jack Costanzo again chatted with writer Steven D. Harris, this time for a special feature story on living jazz...
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Sam Noto - Entrance!
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.From 1975 - 1980, the brilliant Jazz trumpet player, Sam Noto, made four LPs for Don Schlitten’s Xanadu record label none of which have...
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Sam Noto - Act One
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Like most instrumentalists who also compose, Noto reveals in his written lines a flow akin to his trumpet emanations.” - Ira GitlerFrom...
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Sam Noto - Notes to You
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“ … Sam's playing … embodies his extension of the style that runs from Dizzy Gillespie to Fats Navarro through Clifford Brown. Of all the...
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Lennie Tristano On Multi-Taping, Competition, Recording Echo, Rhythm Sections...
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Nat Hentoff is right about one thing, when you talk with Lennie Tristano as he did in the following interview which appeared in the May...
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Sam Noto - Noto-Riety
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.From 1975 - 1980, the brilliant Jazz trumpet player, Sam Noto, made four LPs for Don Schlitten’s Xanadu record label none of which have...
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Stan Levey - The Gordon Jack Interview
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journaland a very generous friend...
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Lennie Tristano On Multi-Taping, Competition, Recording Echo, Rhythm Sections...
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Nat Hentoff is right about one thing, when you talk with Lennie Tristano as he did in the following interview which appeared in the May...
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Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones - The JazzProfiles Review
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Context is everything so, for the record, Paul Devlin, editor, Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones (As Told To Albert Murray)...
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"Music is Forever" - Dave Usher and Bert Falbaum
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved."In addition to being the very definition of enlivening swinging, Dizzy Gillespie — whom I knew well — was also an invaluable teacher and...
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