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Soaring with the Don Ellis Orchestra
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Don Ellis gave the concept of big band jazz. a completely new meaning.”- STEFAN FRANZEN “‘I believe in making use of as wide a range of...
View ArticleBasin Street Blues
A brilliant reharmonization of this Jazz standard by pianist Victor Feldman. Miles never played better than when he was in a reflective mood. When he was, you could really hear what Gil Evans meant...
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A Compilation of Writings About Erroll Garner: The Nonpareil
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Erroll Garner was one of a kind. He was as outré as the great beboppers, yet bop was alien to him, even though he recorded with Charlie...
View ArticleNueva Manteca - CRIME
"The Theme from The Godfather" as arranged by pianist Jan Laurens Hartong for the group Nueva Manteca featuring Ilja Reijngoud, trombone,Ben van den Dungen, sax, Ed Verhoeff, guitar, Jeroen Vierdag,...
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Bill Perkins -The Ex Herman and Kenton Sideman Talks to Steve Voce
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As well as writing obituaries for The Independent, Steve Voce has been a columnist for Jazz Journal for about 60 years, and presented the Jazz...
View ArticleFreddie Hubbard - Birdlike (Remastered)
One of the most breathtakingly beautiful, yet, complicated hard bop trumpet solos ever recorded.
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Freddie Hubbard: The Early Years on Blue Note
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Freddie Hubbard was one of the liveliest of the young hard-bop lions of the late 1950s and early '60s. As a Jazz Messenger, and with his own...
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Klook: Kenny Clarke and The Beginnings of Modern Jazz Drumming
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.How did the Jazz world get from Gene Krupa to Philly Joe Jones?The answer to that question is as central as asking how it got from Benny...
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Les Brown and His Band of Renown - Parts 1 and 2 Complete
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."I'll look in books and see almost no mention of Les. I don't think it's fair. Or right."- Frank Comstock, composer-arranger"Throughout...
View ArticleJo Stafford - "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To"
Arrangement by Johnny Mandel with solos by Jimmy Rowles [piano], Ben Webster [tenor sax] and Conte Candoli [trumpet].
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Jo Stafford/ Jo + Jazz
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jo Stafford, died on July 16, 2008, aged 90. She not only had one of the...
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The Evolution of the Don Ellis Orchestra - Part 1
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Don Ellis gave the concept of big band jazz. a completely new meaning.”- STEFAN FRANZEN “‘I believe in making use of as wide a range of...
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Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds of Joy
© -Steven Cerra. Copyright protected; all rights reserved.For some time now, the editorial staff at JazzProfiles has envisioned brief features on some of the big bands of The Swing Era that have fallen...
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Lenny Breau - A Magical Guitarist
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“What I am trying to do is make impressions. I think of myself as a colourist, adding different colours and shades by using different...
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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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Artie Shaw: The Anchorite, Parts 1 -3, Complete - Gene Lees
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In the late fall of 1939,... clarinetist Artie Shaw stormed off the bandstand, abandoning the money-making machine it had taken him...
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