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Dizzy Gillespie Story - Spending Time With The Writings of Max Harrison
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Many of Max Harrison’s singular comments on Jazz and its makers were reprinted in A Jazz Retrospect which is made up of a selection of his...
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The Evolution of the Don Ellis Orchestra - Part 2
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I was a pimply teenager in 1967 when one afternoon my high school music appreciation teacher smiled slyly, put an index finger to his lips and...
View ArticleLenny McBrowne & the 4 Souls - "Dearly Beloved"
Drummer Lenny McBrowne's quintet performing "Dearly Beloved" with Don Sleet on trumpet, Daniel Jackson on tenor, Terry Trotter, piano and bassist Herbie Lewis.SHOW MORE
View ArticleDCI 1983 - Madison Scouts - Strawberry Soup
How about some Don Ellis "Strawberry Soup" courtesy of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps. Power and precision - just the way Don would have liked it.
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Up Jumped the Devil, The Real Life of Robert Johnson - Bruce Conforth and...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.One music critic called Robert Johnson “the Shelley, Keats, and Rimbaud of the blues all rolled into one.”I’ve always been a Jazz guy in the...
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Previn, Potts and Porgy
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Andre Previn was right about the deluge that followed Samuel Goldwyn’s 1959 release of his film version of George Gershwin’s Porgy and...
View ArticleThe Brass Connection - "Giant Steps"
Trombonists Doug Hamilton, Ian McDougall, Jerry Johnson, Bob Livingston and John Capon performing John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" with solos by Lorne Lofsky on guitar and Frank Falco on piano.
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Harry James: Parts 1-6 Complete
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Some think he is “the best of all,” others accuse him of having gone too blatantly commercial. Like in many things in life, the truth about...
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Doris Day in the JazzJournal
Doris Day: a great entertainer, not a symbol of repressionJoan Merrill remembers a singer and actress whose work will chime with many jazz fansBy Jazz Journal-June 1, 2019She never won an Oscar, never...
View ArticleTiny Capers / CLIFFORD BROWN jazz immortal FEATURING ZOOT SIMS
Clifford Brown (tp)Zoot Sims (ts)Bob Gordon (bs)Stu Williamson (vtb)Russ Freeman (p)Joe Mondragon (b)Carson Smith (b)Shelly Manne (ds)Recorded at Capitol Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California on...
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Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Trombonist Bill Watrous with Steven D. Harris
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following feature resulted from Steven Harris happening upon a reference on Kentonia [an Internet chat group devoted to the music of Stan...
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Tom Pierson - Last Works
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The great jazz master Gil Evans called Pierson " the best unknown composer I know ".The Los Angeles Times wrote " highest praise for Tom...
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Al Cohn and "The Brothers"
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Cohn had a broad, heavy tone; he played in an uncomplicated style, employing regular phrase lengths and idiomatic bop figures.” - Leroy...
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Jazz Life: A Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960 [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following story cannot be written today. It can only be told. You couldn’t complete this trek; there’s nothing like it to be seen, anymore....
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George Handy by Jeff Sultanof
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jeff Sultanof, is an arranger, composer, saxophonist, and music editor. In addition to his original work, among his other, notable...
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Kenny Dorham by Gene Feehan
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.By 1962 when the following article was written, trumpeter Kenny Dorham had been an active jazz musician for more than two decades and one of...
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