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Francis Wolff - The Gift
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.It is amazing to reflect back on the halcyon days of “modern” Jazz [1945-1965] without seeing it through imagery brought to mind by the...
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Paul Bley: 1932-2016
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“You're telling human beings that they can trust their intuitions to create forms, rather than need forms in which to create intuitions….”We're...
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The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones - Gene Lees
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“One evening in the early summer of 1958 I went to an amusement park called Grona Lund, on the outskirts of Stockholm, to hear the...
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Crime - Nueva Manteca - 'Salsa y Suspense'
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.What more could you ask for than new music from the supremely talented Latin Jazz Band - Nueva Manteca?Based in Holland, the band has...
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"Nothing New In Quincy, But ..." By BILL MATHIEU
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.At the time of this article’s publication in the January 7, 1960 issue of Down Beat, Bill Mathieu was a young (22) Chicago arranger who...
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"The Forming of Philly Joe Jones" - by Ralph J. Gleason
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.The year 1960 arguably found Philly Joe Jones at the top of the heap of modern Jazz drummers. He had just finished a five-year...
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Stan Kenton: The Relentless Searcher
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved."Some of the wise boys [i.e. Jazz critics] who say my music is loud, blatant, and that's all, should see the faces of the kids who have...
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Dizzy Gillespie And The Double Six Of Paris
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Dizzy Gillespie And The Double Six Of Paris [Philips 830224-2] Gillespie; James Moody (as); Kenny Barron, Bud Powell (p); Chris White,...
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Lew Tabackin - Soundscapes
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.On February 5, 2016, tenor saxophonist and flutist Lew Tabackin’s new, self-produced CD Soundscapes will be issued and the editorial...
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Coltrane on Coltrane - Don DeMichael
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The first occasion I had to speak with John Coltrane at length was during his recent engagement at the Sutherland hotel [Sutherland Jazz...
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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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Shorty Rogers As Interviewed By Steve Voce
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following interview by Steve Voce with trumpeter, composer-arranger Shorty Rogers who passed away in 1994 first appeared in the...
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Terri Lynn Carrington
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I gravitate to this kind of drumming. It doesn't feel lick-oriented. It feels organic, open, like you're playing off what you're...
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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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Ronnie Cuber "Meets The Beets Brothers"
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Ronnie Cuber was born in New York in 1941. Ronald Edward Cuber made his debut in the late 1950’s in trombonist and music educator’s...
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Shorty Rogers Is Long On West Coast Jazz
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The definition of "West Coast Jazz?" You know, I've been asked that question so many times. It's a hard one. I'm not trying to evade the...
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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - The Barbara Gardner Interview
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.In the following interview, Cannonball brings out some interesting expectations on the part of Jazz club owners and patrons about the...
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Chesky Records 2015 Yearly Review
The editorial staff at JazzProfiles receives loads of information about new releases, both self-produced and commercially released by a record company. Over the past twenty years, one label that it has...
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Louis Armstrong: Views of "Pops" By 7 Jazz Trumpeters
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Genius is the transfiguring agent. Nothing else can explain Louis Armstrong's ascendancy. He had no formal training, yet he alchemized...
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