Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan - COMPADRES!
Be patient as this audio-only track has a 35 second applause lead-in, but it's worth the wait. Bru and Jeru with Jack Six on bass and the irrepressible Alan Dawson on drums.
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Part 3 - The John Williams Interview with Steve Voce
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Here’s Part 3 of British journalist and music critic Steve Voce’s extended 1998 interview with pianist John Williams. Our apologies...
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Joe Morello and The Legendary Drummer Marvin Bonessa
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“At the start of 1956 Brubeck made a personal decision that proved to be a most important change in his group. After three years with the...
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The Photographs of Don Hunstein - "Keeping Time: The Unseen Archive of...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“… [In 1955, Hunstein] moved into the job of staff photographer, and there he stayed until Columbia dismantled its in-house photo...
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Didier Lockwood: Jazz and the Violin
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Not everyone likes Jazz played on a violin. For some fans, the music seems out of place when performed on this instrument. Those who...
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Gordon Beck: From Two Perspectives – Solo & Duo
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“It concerns me that, now, at the time of his passing, he won't be accorded the place he's so clearly earned. The proof is there in the...
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Pub Crawling with Jimmy Deuchar and The Lads
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“[Jimmy Deuchar] …the great Scot, whose sound sometimes seemed like a hybrid of Bunny Berigan and Fats Navarro, and who is usually...
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Scott LaFaro and the LA Bassists
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The late Scott LaFaro’s claim to fame as a bassist centers on his two year association with pianist Bill Evans and the handful of...
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“Music: A Subversive History” by Ted Gioia
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.—This essay is adapted from Mr. Gioia’s new book, Music: A Subversive History, published by Basic Books.and was printed in The Wall...
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Lou Levy: A Most Musical Pianist [From The Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.For many years, George Ziskind, a friend who resided in New York City, was one of the biggest fans of these pages. He was constantly sending me...
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The 1965 Stan Getz Quartet Tokyo Concert
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Although highly regarded as a vibraphonist and percussionist, the years 1963 - 1965 were particularly busy ones for Larry Bunker as...
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An Afternoon with Benjamin Francis Webster
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Look at those two heavyweights!.”The speaker was Jack Marshall a guitarist who was perhaps best known as a composer-arranger in Hollywood...
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Gerry Mulligan Quartet- Newport Rarities from 1957 - Gordon Jack
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journaland a very generous...
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Nat "King" Cole Trio - "Hittin' the Ramp, The Early Years (1936-1943)"
ByMartin JohnsonOct. 29, 2019 Edition of the Wall Street Journal“Suave, debonair and almost impossibly refined, Nat King Cole possessed a voice to match his looks and demeanor; it was a warm, precise...
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Conyers Jazzed Up The Capitol
The art form had no bigger booster in Congress than the long-serving Michigan representative.By John Edward HasseOct. 29, 2019 Wall Street JournalRep. John Conyers in Washington, Oct. 26, 2011. PHOTO:...
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GERRY MULLIGAN and the Concert Jazz Band by Gordon Jack
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. Gordon Jack is a frequent contributor to the Jazz Journaland a very generous...
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