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Roy Harte and Drum City: “Drummers are a lot like hockey goalies ….”
© -Steven Cerra. Copyright protected; all rights reserved.I know I spend a lot of time talking about Jazz drummers on the blog.But sometimes it can’t be helped especially when a recent conversation...
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The Complete Nocturne Recordings Jazz in Hollywood Series
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.According to Jordi Pujol, the owner-operator of Fresh Sound Records, who bought the catalogues of many smaller record companies that...
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Frank Isola - "Le Scrupuleux": The Gordon Jack Essay
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Efficient, flexible and energetic, Frank’s playing emphasizes rhythmic stability and employs phrasing similar to that of Kenny Clarke and...
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Dick Twardzik - The Gordon Jack Interview
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journal and a very generous friend to these pages in his allowance of JazzProfiles...
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SUPERSAX – The Brilliant and Bravura [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. “A typical arrangement by Supersax begins with the theme, followed by a reproduction of Parker's solo; both of these are accompanied by...
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Billy Root Interview with Gordon Jack [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It is always a privilege to have Gordon Jack as a guest writer on JazzProfiles.Gordon is the author of Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective...
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The Young Lions
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Imagine putting a Jazz recording session together with a band featuring Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor sax, Frank Strozier...
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King, Pops and Bix in Chicago from "We Called It Music" by Eddie Condon
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There is a paradox here. If Condon and friends started out as avant-garde renegades ("One of the ladies told me it was just like having the...
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Pete Christlieb - The Gordon Jack Interview [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“It was thanks to Bob Cooper that I became one of the Lighthouse All-Stars. … I played with Sonny Criss there, and going toe-to-toe with him...
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Saying "Goodbye" to Dick Berk: 1939-2014 [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.[I'm re-posting this for my friend Marla who was is a fan of Dick's, both as a musician and as a person.]For a number of years in the late...
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Bill on Bill: Dobbins on Holman
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I consider Bill Holman to be one of the most important jazz arrangers and composers after Duke Ellington's generation …. Willis has...
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Tamir Hendelman - An Astoundingly Accomplished Pianist
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Trio is the basic platform for expression for guitar. You can accompany yourself and still play Jazz choruses. You can make the group sound...
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Polly Gibbons - "All I Can Do"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Polly Gibbons is a growing presence in the UK Jazz scene. She has already been nominated twice as "Best Jazz Vocalist" by JAZZ FM and the BBC....
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Imitation, Assimilation and Innovation: Evolving a Unique Voice Within The...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“What a great musician Cozy Cole was. He was one of those guys who practices very diligently at all times. I was able to just sit around there...
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Lisa Maxwell's Shiny! - Boasts all-star big band lineup, dedicated to...
The editorial staff at JazzProfiles is trying something new by bringing to your attention promotional materials "as is" which we receive periodically from services, in this case, Antje Hübner at...
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Clifford Brown on The Left Coast: The Origins of the Max Roach - Clifford...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Rumsey's real coup, however, was in bringing bebop legend Max Roach to the club as Manne's replacement. For the next several months Roach...
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Karina Corradini - Bridges to Infinity
Here's another effort by the editorial staff at JazzProfiles to bring to your attention promotional materials "as is" which we receive periodically from services, in this case, Michael Bloom of Michael...
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The Enigma of Miles Davis - Barbara J. Gardner
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.This features continues the theme of our recent postings about Miles Davis’ career after he made the move to Columbia Records in 1955 and...
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Slide Hampton: An Interview with Barbara Gardner
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“LOCKSLEY WELLINGTON HAMPTON WAS 27 YEARS OLD when, in the autumn of 1959, he left Maynard Ferguson's orchestra where he had made his...
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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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