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Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's...
“The Counce quintet is one of the great neglected jazz bands of the 1950s. The reasons for this neglect are difficult to pinpoint.” Ted Gioia, West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz In California [New York:...
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Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's...
As someone who in his teenage years was allowed to play Jazz clubs on the condition that he would spend the breaks between sets outside the club, I had very little first-hand information of the drug...
View ArticleNew Cool Collective Live at the Festival Jazz International Rotterdam 2005
New Cool Collective performing "Son of Chacha" featuring David Rockefeller on trumpet, Benjamin Herman, alto sax, Anton Goudsmit, guitar, Willem Friede, keyboards, Leslie Lopez, bass, Joost Kroon,...
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Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's...
During his many years in the restaurant business, one of my father’s closest friends was a rather prominent disc jockey whose daily radio program was featured on KMPC-710, a very powerful Hollywood AM...
View Article"Azure" - Phil Woods Quintet
Phil Woods featured on clarinet performs Duke Ellington's "Azure" with Tom Harrell, trumpet, Hal Galper, piano, Steve Gilmore, bass and Bill Goodwin, drums.
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Some Thoughts On Simon Spillett's Biography of Tubby Hayes
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Tubby Hayes' work beyond 1956 is outside the scope of this retrospective and the story of triumphant years ahead, the Jazz...
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William Claxton: Eye on Cool [From the Archives]
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The editorial staff at JazzProfiles is re-posting this feature to memorialize its author, Scott Timberg, who died on December 10, 2019.Ted...
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Enrico Pieranunzi: Part 1 - The Early Years
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“The much-discussed “globalization” of jazz is not always apparent down here on the ground. Take Italy, for instance. It boasts arguably the...
View ArticleGerry Mulligan - K-4 Pacific.wmv
"K-4 Pacific" went through so many iterations after Gerry Mulligan composed it in 1971 - Octet [1974 reunion concert with Chet Baker], quartet with pianist Bill Mays, Bill Charlap, and Ted Rosenthal,...
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Enrico Pieranunzi: Part 2 - The Trios & Instrumental Groups [From the Archives]
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Writing words and composing music have something intangible in common: shaping a sentence is not so far from tracing the outline of a melody....
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Enrico Pieranunzi: Part 3 – Solo Piano & The Italian Film Composers [From the...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Pieranunzi is not an extravagant virtuoso; his self-effacing manner recalls something of Hancock, but he uses all the ground-breaking modern...
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Sonny Berman by Gordon Jack
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Trumpet player Saul "Sonny" Berman's jazz life could be likened to that of a meteor, for it burned brightly and dazzled for a brief...
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Gerry Mulligan and Judy Holliday as Told By Gene Lees
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following is excerpted from Gene Lees’ essay The Last Days of Junior’s in his Meet Me at Jim and Andy: Jazz Musicians and Their...
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The Fabulous Gerry Mulligan Sextet [Fresh Sound CD 418-419] - Alun Morgan
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Born in Wales in 1928, the esteemed British author and critic Alun Morgan [d. 2018] became a Jazz fan as a teenager and was an early...
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