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A Conversation About Jazz With Bill Kirchner
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Over the years, I learned a great deal about Jazz from Bill Kirchner. Not first-hand, mind you, as I live on the Left Coast and he lives on the...
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A Jazz Conversation with Ted Gioia
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Ted Gioia is one of my very favorite Jazz artists.[“Gioia” is pronounced “Joy-a”]But I’ve never heard him play.For me and his many other...
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Mike Barone - Master Arranger
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Within five minutes, or ten minutes, no more than that, you know that you are in the presence of incredibly talented big band arranger.When...
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A Conversation About Jazz with Mike Abene
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.This is the sixth in series of Jazz interviews that have appeared on the blog and I consider each of them to be a hallmark of my work on...
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The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Groups, 21-CD Boxed Set on ECM
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles recently received the 21 CDs and the accompanying 296 page booklet in this boxed set as a holiday...
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Veryl Oakland - "Jazz in Available Light"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Another of the holiday gifts received by the editorial staff at JazzProfiles is Very Oakland’s Jazz in Available Light and while we prepare a...
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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“He did everything wrong and it all turned out right.”— Dizzy Gillespie“What was it about Dexter? Well, besides his music, he was sort of the...
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Lady Sings the Blues - A Review of the Reissue by John Lahr
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following review appeared in the December 20, 2018 edition -Vol. 40 No. 24] of the London Review of Books. ‘She was always shooting towards...
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Creating the Jazz Solo: Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony by Vic Hobson
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Building effectively on past work, in Creating the Jazz Solo Vic Hobson explores the symbiosis of Louis Armstrong's early vocal and...
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Bill Evans “in” Paris “with” Gene Lees
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. “It is difficult for me to write about Bill. His life, Helen's [Keane, Bill’s producer], and my own were too closely involved for too long a...
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Homage to Bill Evans - Martin Williams
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Bill EvansThe Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961Riverside, $89.99“Previously released as two now-classic albums in "Waltz for...
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Bill Evans - Piano Player
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Sooner or later, it seemed that many of the major Jazz artists of the 2nd half of the 20th century recorded for Columbia.Some, like Miles...
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"Bill Evans - The Art of Playing" - Dan Morgenstern
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The Argument- Modern music is not modern and is rarely music. - It represents an attempt to perpetuate a European musical tradition whose...
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Inside The New Bill Evans Trio With Gene Lees
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Bill Evans-Jim Hall UNDERCURRENT—United Artists 14003: My Funny Valentine; I Hear a Rhapsody; Dream Gypsy; Romain; Skating in Central...
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Bill Evans - Intellect, Emotion, Communication - By Don Nelsen
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.At the time of its publication in the December 8, 1960 edition of Down Beat, Don Nelsen was a 34-year-old feature writer for the New York...
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"Pianist Bill Evans and You, Professor"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here is a writing on Jazz from a totally different perspective - the academic cloister.It appears in August 22, 2011 of The Chronicle of Higher...
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"Who Was Bill Evans?" - Richard Terrill
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Richard Terrill is the author of the memoir Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz, and two collections of poetry, including...
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