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Stan Kenton by Bill Gottlieb
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.Stan Kenton and Marion "Buddy" Childers photographed through a fractured mirror to suggest the shattering effect of the Kenton hand's...
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Slide Hampton: An Interview with Barbara Gardner
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.“LOCKSLEY WELLINGTON HAMPTON WAS 27 YEARS OLD when, in the autumn of 1959, he left Maynard Ferguson's orchestra where he had made his...
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The "Collectable" Todd Coolman
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved.I have never met him, but Francois Zalacain of Sunnyside Records holds a special place in my Pantheon of Jazz Record Producers, mainly...
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Art Tatum - Genius in Prospect and Retrospect [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Genius is an overworked word in this era of thunderous hyperbolic press agency. Still, when one considers Arthur Tatum, there is no other...
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Barney Kessel: An Interview With Gene Lees
© - Steven A. Cerra - copyright protected; all rights reserved."The important things for a musician to be concerned with are (1) whether you are able to play what you sincerely think, and (2) to have...
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Paul Horn: A 1961 Interview With John Tynan
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."... you don't learn jazz in school. You don't learn it; you have to do it. You have to go out and learn jazz by playing. Jazz is a way of...
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"Stan Levey, Jazz Heavyweight: The Authorized Biography"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Stan Levey is without a doubt one of the greatest drummers ever and one of the founding fathers of modern music. Along with Klook, Max, and...
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Thinking in Jazz - "Seeing Out A Bit"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“It all goes from imitation to assimilation to innovation. You move from the imitation stage to the assimilation stage when you take little...
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A Salute to Ed Leimbacher and Erroll Garner
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Sixty years! Hard to believe for this Garner fan, who grabbed the LP when it was "hot off the press" - to coin a phrase. And what a treat it...
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Denny Zeitlin - A Mid-Career Interview with Ben Sidran
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Jazz musicians are their music. Absent that, they're just people making a living, eating meals, paying bills — no different from cops or...
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Jazz Archaeology: "1,000 hours of Early Jazz Music Released Online"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jim Eigo of Jazz Promo Services brought this site to my attention and I thought I would bring it to yours, not only for its historical value,...
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Jazz Life: A Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following story cannot be written today. It can only be told. You couldn’t complete this trek; there’s nothing like it to be seen, anymore....
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Hendrik Meurkens - "Harmonicus Rex"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The harmonica would seem to have promise as a jazz instrument: it is a free-reed instrument capable of producing a wide range of voice-like...
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Lost Chords - Revisited By Richard M. Sudhalter
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Sudhalter's monumental contribution to the complex story of American music is without precedent. Let no one search Lost Chords for revisionist...
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Stan Levey and "Chrisdee"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.One of the great things about Frank Hayde and Charlie Watts new biography of Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight from Santa Monica Press is the way...
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The Accidental Birth of the Modern Jazz Quartet
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Louis Armstrong played trumpet, but he also sang - frequently. Another trumpeter, Arturo Sandoval, plays piano during his sets. Many big bands...
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Stan Kenton by George T. Simon
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Few leaders have been accorded as much love and respect as Kenton achieved, not only because of his dedication and his talent, but also...
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Duo Taufic and Barbara Casini
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.April 1 2016 sees the release of Terras, Duo Taufic’s first album with Barbara Casini, produced by Jando Music and Via Veneto Jazz (VVJ 107–...
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Jazz West Coast - Robert Gordon [From the Archives]
Here's another JazzProfiles editorial staff effort to bring separate postings, in this case, the eleven chapters of Bob Gordon's fine book on the subject of Jazz on the West Coast, into a single...
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Goings on At Pops' House
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Obviously, the following notification falls more favorably to those who live in New York City or have easy access to The Big Apple, but Jim...
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