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Steve Fidyk - Controlled Creativity
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I recently started playing drums again after a long absence.A tenor sax playing buddy took pity on me and invited me to sit in with...
View ArticleMusic! Music! Music! - Ahmad Jamal Trio
Pianist Ahmad Jamal's classic trio with Israel Crosby on bass and Vernel Fournier on drums. This video contains many images of nickelodeon, which I guess, might be consider one of the earliest musical...
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STAN GETZ / KENNY BARRON "PEOPLE TIME: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS" By Gary Giddins
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“I love duo jazz. To me the duo is jazz stripped down to its absolute core - two people creating and interacting, the mostly...
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Making "Music!Music!Music!" With The Ahmad Jamal Trio
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I never ceased to be impressed with what Jazz musicians often make out of ditties.A ditty is a short, simple song.The original meaning of...
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Dave Pell’s PREZ CONFERENCE
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Bill Dobbins. ... Getting back to our discussion about your working methods, could you talk a little about the origins of the arrangements...
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People Time - One Last Time - with Getz and Barron
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.With all the attention that the 2 CD and the 7 CD People Time Stan Getz - Kenny Barron recordings from their March 3rd-6th, 1991...
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ARLYNE BROWN MULLIGAN - The Gordon Jack Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Arlyne Brown arrived on the scene from New York. She was the daughter of the great Lew Brown and she and Gerry had known each other...
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Big Band Bossa Nova: Stan Getz and Gary McFarland
© -Steven Cerra. Copyright protected; all rights reserved.Fresh from the sudden success of Jazz Samba and "Desafinado," Stan Getz asked the 28-year-old, strikingly gifted Gary McFarland to arrange a...
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Fred Nardin -An Opening to Look Ahead
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Look Ahead, along with its fitting entitled predecessor Opening arrived at the editorial offices of JazzProfiles recently courtesy...
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Lee Konitz - MOTION!
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.One of my first impressions of Jazz was the sense of motion I felt while listening to the music.This feeling of movement was enhanced when I...
View ArticleSaint Petersburg - Jerry Goldsmith
A brilliant performance by Branford Marsalis, Mike Lang and John Patitucci from Jerry Goldsmith's score to The Russia House film with some very rare photographs of Saint Petersburg, "The Venice of the...
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Eddie Higgins: 1939-2009 - "A Very Soulful Cat"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Eddie Higgins is a very soulful cat who knows where it's at; lives there and stays there and constantly plays there!”- Jon HendricksI know...
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Getz at The Gate - Reviews in the Jazz Literature
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Although it is a word better suited to some aspects of his personal life than his playing, “aggressive” is not a term usually...
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Ronnie Cuber with His Trio and Straight Street
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Ronnie Cuber has appeared on more than 200 albums in a long and productive career that began back in 1959 with Marshall Brown’s...
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Scott Hamilton With Strings
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“... With strings” recordings can be tricky for Jazz musicians. Some of the Jazz greats - Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown and Chet Baker to...
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See Inside Jazz Great Dave Brubeck's Groovy Connecticut Home
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In the early 1960s, the bandleader moved from California to a modernist masterpiece in the woods of Connecticut. by WENDY GOODMAN...
View ArticleBella Napoli - Gary Smulyan and Dominic Chianese
'A voglio bene...'A voglio bene assaje!"Dicitencello Vuie!
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Joe Morello - The Early Years
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Everyone associated with the clinics is happy. "For every one that he does, I could book ten," said Dick Schory of the Ludwig Drum...
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Review: “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” and the Problem of the Archive
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.So much has been writtenabout Miles Davis, so many photographs, video tapes and film clips have been taken and displayed of Miles...
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Richard Crawford's Gershwin's Biography "Summertime" as Reviewed by Ted Gioia
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The life of a beloved American composer reflected through his music, writings, and letters.New York City native and gifted pianist...
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