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Count Basie by Alun Morgan - Part 5
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Born in Wales in 1928, Alun Morgan became a Jazz fan as a teenage and was an early devotee of the bebop movement. In the 1950s he began...
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Triplicity - Pinheiro, Cavalli and Ineke
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I don’t know all the circumstances of how these, three musicians of diverse national and ethnic backgrounds found each other, but one...
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Bill Hitz and Greig McRitchie - Jazz and Swing Orchestras: West Coast Series
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.On Music for This Swingin' Age, Bill Hitz's made his record debut with an orchestra spotted with driving West Coast soloists. All...
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Tommy Shepard and Richard Wess - Jazz and Swing Orchestras: East Coast Series
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The band on Shepard's Flock is an—almost—All-Star band. It was thedebut album of trombonist Tommy Shepard, who made a name for himself in...
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Randy Weston [1926-2018] In Memoriam
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following article, Randy Weston In Memoriamby Robert Ham which appeared in the November 2018 issue of DownBeat prompted the editorial...
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Count Basie by Alun Morgan - Part 6
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Born in Wales in 1928, Alun Morgan became a Jazz fan as a teenage and was an early devotee of the bebop movement. In the 1950s he began...
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Randy Weston - Afrobeats - Gary Giddins
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles begins its retrospective on the musical career of pianist, composer and bandleader Randy Weston [1926...
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John Scofield - COMBO 66!
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Multiple Grammy Award Winning Jazz Guitarist John Scofield Returns with New Album: Combo 66! - Released on Verve Records on September...
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DEBUT - Julian Oliver Mazzariello
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Julian mostra un tocco leggero e un fraseggio con note tratteggiate; è molto bravo nel dispiegare lunghe e liriche imitazioni. Il modo di...
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"El Congo Valiente" - The Kenton-Richards Collaborations
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Of the five genius big band composers and arrangers who emerged in full bloom in die 1950s — Gil Evans, Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan,...
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Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art: NYTimes 11.16.2018
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Armstrong was an artist who happened to be an entertainer, an entertainer who happened to be an artist—as much an original in one role as...
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EDDIE JEFFERSON by Gordon Jack
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. “Eddie Jefferson is a jazz...
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Count Basie by Alun Morgan - Part 7
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Born in Wales in 1928, Alun Morgan became a Jazz fan as a teenage and was an early devotee of the bebop movement. In the 1950s he began...
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Afro Cuban - Kenny Dorham
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here’s another of our features based around favorite recordings, this time focusing on trumpeter Kenny Dorham’s Afro Cuban album for Blue...
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Hank Mobley - Michael James in Jazz Monthly, 1962
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Thanks to a Jazz mate in New Zealand, this second, rare article on Hank Mobley by Michael James from the short-lived Jazz Monthly magazine...
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Count Basie by Alun Morgan - Part 8
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."'I don't think that a band can really swing on just a kick-off, you know; I think you've got to set the tempo first. If you can do it the...
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Monk in Copenhagen - 1963
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It’s always an event when’s there more newly discovered recorded music by Thelonious Monk to enjoy, whatever the period and whatever the...
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Bill Crow: Memories, 1950-1953
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Bill Crow has had such a long, distinguished career, both as a bassist and writer, that it’s sometimes difficult to believe that he just...
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Hank Mobley - Soul Station
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Hank has also carried a liability around with him for a long time-a liability, that is, as far as commercialism is concerned: he is not...
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Buck Clayton: A Brief Biography by George Hoefer
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Buck Clayton: has there ever been a better name for a Jazz musician?Trumpeter Wilbur Dorsey "Buck" Clayton, 1911-1991, became synonymous...
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