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Lighthouse All-Stars: Live In The Solo Spotlight
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.By the end of 1952 Howard Rumsey had transformed a small local bar in Hermosa Beach, California into a name known around the world. The...
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The Impeccable Teddy Wilson
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.At time time of its publication in the January 22, 1959 edition of Down Beat magazine, Tom Scanlan, was 34 and best known for his column...
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Conrad Herwig - "Sketches of Spain Y Mas: The Latin Side of Miles Davis"
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.I try to keep the topics for the blog postings somewhat spontaneous. All of them require a certain amount of technical planning for...
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Norman Granz - The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice: A Book Review [From the...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Granz brought a benevolent order to what previously had been a poorly governed and especially venal sector of the music business, where...
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Duduka Da Fonseca: A Drummer's Delight
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Whenthe editorial staff at JazzProfiles received a preview copy Trio Da Paz 30 [Zoho ZM 201602] featuring guitarist Romero Lubambo,...
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Duke Ellington: Our Greatest Composer - Grover Sales [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“We look to the future for the American composer, not, indeed, to the Horatio Parkers and Edward MacDowells of the present, who are taking...
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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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Tango Extremo
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Based in The Netherlands, Ben van den Dungen is a superb soprano and tenor saxophone who performs on a regular basis with the Latin Jazz...
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Keystone Corner: "The World's First Psychedelic Jazz Club"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“You never went to work when you were at Keystone. You went to play.”- Carl Burnett, Jazz drummer“There was a real special relationship always...
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Marius Beets - A Force in Dutch Jazz
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Marius Beets [pronounced “Bates”] is one of three brothers, all of whom are prominent players on the Dutch Jazz scene. Brother Peter is a...
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Ken Burns Jazz - A Retrospective Review - Part 2A
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved."My other feeling is that it seems to suggest that the heroes are all in the past and they all happen to be dead. It also seemed odd...
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Ken Burns Jazz - A Retrospective Review - Part 2B
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Ken Burns Jazz has an unwholesome preoccupation with heroin addiction. One odious sequence shows a young man sticking a needle into his...
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An Interview with Johnny Griffin by Dom DeMichael
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved."When Bird [alto saxophonist, Charlie Parker] was alive, I wouldn't go near him too much," he said. "The same thing goes for [tenor...
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Matt Niess and The Capitol Bones
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.You don’t see [hear?] front lines in Jazz combos made up of two of the same instruments very often.The quintet headed-up by trombonists...
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Bob Brookmeyer: An Interview With Bill Coss
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jazz author and critic Bill Coss wrote many articles for both Down Beat and Metronome magazines in the 1950s and 1960. He was for a time...
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Buck Clayton: A Brief Biography by George Hoefer
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Buck Clayton: has there ever been a better name for a Jazz musician?Trumpeter Wilbur Dorsey "Buck" Clayton, 1911-1991, became synonymous...
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Mike Freeman and Zona Vibe - "Blue Tjade"
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“... an intoxicating Latin Jazz gem.”- Chip Boaz, Latin Jazz Corner“Freeman stirs up a multicultural brew of vibrant optimism and Latin...
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The Golden Age of Jazz - William P. Gottlieb
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“It was, to say the least, a dazzling period. Every time you turned around, particularly in New York, there was something new on 52nd...
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