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"Hidden in Plain Hearing: The Roots of Cool Jazz in the Big Band of Claude...
“I wonder if the world will ever know how much it had in this beautiful man.”- Duke EllingtonI am reposting this feature to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Birth of the Cool recordings...
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LATIN ESCAPADE - George Shearing
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Sometimes I wonder if fans of Jazz who grew-up listening to the music in the analog era realize how fortunate we are that so much of it has...
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"George Russell: The Story of an American Composer " by Duncan Heining
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Cycles and cycles within cycles are the meat of the matter. One could argue that jazz is a music based on cyclical motion, a strictly defined...
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West Coast Jazz Box
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“There was something special about the West Coast jazz scene of the Fifties and early Sixties. Those of us privileged enough to have lived...
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Albert Mangelsdorff - "Now, Jazz Ramwong"
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."A new album by Albert Mangelsdorff, A Jazz Tune I Hope (MPS), recorded in Germany in 1978 with Elvin Jones, Eddie Gomez, and Wolfgang...
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"On Time" - With Les McCann and Joe Pass [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As Kirk Silsbee alludes in the excerpts from the sleeve notes to the Les McCann and Joe Pass Pacific Jazz On Time recording [PJ A916] that...
View ArticleSoftly as in a Morning Sunrise
The soloing by baritone saxophonists Ronnie Cuber and Nick Brignola on the seven tracks that make up this disc will literally take your breath away. It's an astonishing display of virtuosity which is...
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The Evolution of the Don Ellis Orchestra - Part 7 "From Satchmo to Miles"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For the next segment in our continuing series on the evolution of the Don Ellis Orchestra, circa 1964-1978, the editorial staff at...
View ArticleJazz Caricatures - Don Fagerquist Nonet - "Time After Time"
Trumpeter Don Fagerquist performing "Time After Time" with Vince De Rosa, French Horn, Bob Enevoldsen, valve trombone, Joe Maini, alto sax, Ronnie Lang, baritone sax, Marty Paich, piano, Buddy Clark,...
View ArticleThe Magic City - El Real Alcázar de Sevilla - Paquito D'Rivera
Alto saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D' Rivera performing "The Magic City" which was composed and arranged by Carlos Franzetti.SHOW MORE
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Herb Snitzer - "Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Herb Snitzer's photographs are not just pictures. They are stories, each and every one of them. Herb is one of the great...
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Horace Silver - "In Walked Horace"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Put directly, I find the music of Horace Silver irresistible. When I listen to it, I feel happy, joyous and free. I was recently...
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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records - Ashley Kahn
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Once again, Ashley Kahn brings his passion, precision, and graceful writing style to an important jazz subject. The exciting inside story...
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Louie Bellson and Tony Williams - Mutual Admiration
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.This feature is from Veryl Oakland’s annotated series of his photographs in his book Jazz in Available Light and you can locate...
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