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Joe Morello - The Later Years
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“See, playing is an individual thing, and boy, I'll tell you, I respect anyone who can play. Anyone who has a reputation has earned it....
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You've Changed · Andy Fusco · Joe Magnarelli · Joel Weiskopf · Peter Washington · Billy Drummond
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Dizzy's Big Band
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.There are two things that the editorial staff at JazzProfiles has a well-developed fondness for: [1] Dizzy Gillespie’s Big Band in all its...
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Gary Smulyan - "Alternative Contrafacts"
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In its simplest form, a contrafact is a musical composition consisting of a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure.Put...
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“Tom Talbert: A Different Voice”
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The music of Tom Talbert is the essence of creative Jazz composition. Like all great artists, Talbert gains inspiration from his surroundings,...
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"These Rooms" - Jim Hall Trio Featuring Tom Harrell
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It seems like Herb Wong, the late Jazz author, education, record and concert producer and all-around good friend of Jazz was everywhere in the...
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Gerry Mulligan - Jazz Masters of the 1950s - Joe Goldberg
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Joe Goldberg has the essential skills ol a writer of profiles he keeps the personalities of his subject alive and glowing And since...
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Benny Golson: “Soul Me”
“Although he has contributed several staple pieces to the hard-bop repertoire, Benny’s playing style owes more to such swing masters as Coleman Hawkins and Lucky Thompson; a big crusty tone and a...
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“There is a secret emotional center in jazz which has sustained the music since it outgrew its early melodic and rhythmic gaucheries, in the late twenties. This center, a kind of aural elixir, reveals...
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Bill Charlap: The Natural by Whitney Balliett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."He always leaves something to remember him by."This is a reprise of one of the earliest postings to the blog and it has a special...
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Tony Fruscella: THE NAMES OF THE FORGOTTEN - John Dunton
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jazz history is full of enfant terribles, mythical characters, maudits, legendary figures who seem to have been born in order to become...
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Johnny Mandel - The Dr. Larry Fischer Interview
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.An Interview with Johnny Mandel, Concerning his Compositions and Arrangements for Hollywood Films, Television and Recordings“It...
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Some Reasons for the Success of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I came across the following in Matthew Ruddick, Funny Valentine The Story of Chet Baker. Melrose Books [2014], Kindle Edition, while working on...
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Victor Feldman Plays Everything In Sight
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Many multi-instrumentalists had fun with over-dubbing and or multi-tracking when the long-playing record and audio tape first became a...
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Phil Woods: My Life in E-Flat - "Goodbye, Mr. Woods"
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.[For those of you who may not be familiar with Phil's original compositions, when the pianist Bill Evans died in 1981, Phil wrote a...
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Roy DeCarava - In Sublime Photographs, Harlem’s Past Remembered
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.By Thomas GebremedhinWith Sherry Turner DeCarava Wall Street Journal Sept. 2, 2019“The photographer Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) was...
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"Zutty Singleton: The Pioneer That Jazz Forgot" by Martin Williams
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.As long as Martin Williams was around, a man that Gary Giddins has called “... the most influential Jazz critic of his generation,” there would...
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Gary McFarland: New Writer in Town by Martin Williams
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following essay appeared in the March 1, 1962 edition of Down Beat and was written by the distinguished Jazz critic and author Martin...
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Drummer Walter Perkins' MJT+3 performing Booker Little's "Sweet Silver" with Willie Thomas, trumpet, Frank Strozier, alto sax, Harold Mabern, piano and Bob Cranshaw on bass.
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