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Milt Hinton: We Are Like Atlas - Part 3
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Milt Hinton’s impressive sound and his sense of time were linked with a consummate feeling for harmony. These attributes gained him a strong...
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Dave Brubeck: A Life in American Music - Part 1
Part 1Doug Ramsey is the author of Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond.Doug writes about Jazz on a daily basis for his blog Riffitides and for other publications.And nowhere are...
View ArticleDave Holland Big Band Live at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2003
Bassist Dave Holland's Big Band performing his original composition "Happy Jammy" at the 2003 Saalfelden Jazzfest.
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Dave Brubeck: A Life in American Music - Part 2
Part 2If you are looking for more of Doug Ramsey's’s Jazz writings, his current musings can be found daily on his blog – Riffitides.And should you wish to read his essay in its original form, you can...
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Dave Brubeck: A Life in American Music - Part 3
Part 3As previously mentioned in the JazzProfiles feature on Joe Dodge, the drummer in Dave Brubeck’s quartet from roughly 1954-56, I lived and worked in San Francisco for most of the decade of the...
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Doug in Holland with Marius and Eric
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.I recently reviewed new CDs by baritone saxophone greats Ronnie Cuber and Gary Smulyan on which they are accompanied by only bass...
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Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's -...
Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon’s seminal work on the Jazz styles and groups that developed primarily in Los Angeles in the 1950s has long been out-of-print and...
View ArticleANNIE ROSS sings Twisted and Everyday I Have The Blues 1959
My analyst told me (what?)That I was right out of my headThe way he described it (how?)He said I'd be better dead than liveI didn't listen to his jiveI knew all alongHe was all wrongAnd I knew that he...
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ROBERT GORDON - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the...
Today, many parts of Central Avenue largely consists of empty lots, burned-out stores, and terrible slums - the heart of the area known as South-Central L.A.Once, though, it was the vibrant center of...
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Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's -...
On the few occasions that I met Shorty Rogers over the years, I found him to be an extremely modest and very humble man. Most of these meetings took place in the 1950s and early 1960s, mainly because...
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Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's -...
Having recently run a four-part feature about Gerry Mulligan on JazzProfiles,which can be found in the blog’s archives beginning on August 27,2009 and continuing consecutively through September 16th,...
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ROBERT GORDON - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950’s...
I’ve always been grateful that my folks decided to re-locate to California in the mid-1950’s as one great benefit of the move was that I was able to experience Jazz on the West Coast first-hand. Over...
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Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's...
With his writings in this chapter and subsequently in Chapter 7, Bob Gordon convincingly makes the case for the Los Angeles-based Jazz that was overlooked when, for the most part, critics largely based...
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Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's...
As a reward for being selected the best group at the annual Lighthouse Café Intercollegiate Jazz Festival in April, 1962, our quintet was asked by Howard Rumsey to play the Sunday intermission set from...
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