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Red Garland: Graceful and Bluesy
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It seemed to be over so fast for William “Red” Garland.One minute he’s making all those great Prestige and Columbia records as the pianist with...
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Mulligan Stews - Gerry Mulligan - Blindfold Test, November 14, 1957
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In our research into the music and career of Gerry Mulligan, it appears that this was the first of three “Blindfold Tests” that...
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Stan Getz Plays the Blues - booklet notes by Simon Spillett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“In Getz's case, it's ironic that the very thing that was (and has remained) his most talked of virtue – his sound – has done more...
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"MULLIGAN MAKES A MOVIE - The Saxist Discusses A Feature Film And Short...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Some of Gerry Mulligan’s remarks in the following piece which appeared in the November, 1958 Down Beat about Jazz, and movies and...
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LALO = BRILLIANCE By GENE LEES
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Thanks to his work as a Jazz composer, movie score writer for many of Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry films and writer of a series of TV themes...
View ArticleJimmy Giuffre - Scintilla Parts I-IV
Jimmy Giuffre reeds, Jack Sheldon, trumpet, Ralph Pena bass and Artie Anton, drums performing "Scintilla I-IV."
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Rare interview with Bill Evans recounts the story of Miles Davis and Kind of...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Bill Evans often remarked about the relatively slow pace of his development as a Jazz artist and what resulted from it. Here’s one...
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Gerry Mulligan Cool Charts, Bearish Tone by Richard Brown
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Most of the lengthy answers Mulligan gives are about things that disturb him, and reveal him to be a middle aged orphan in the...
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The Singers Unlimited - Part 1
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“... when … [The Singers Unlimited] came into being [in 1967], it numbered four singers, Bonnie Herman at the top of the harmony, Len Dresslar...
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The Singers Unlimited - Part 2
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Through overdubbing, they could have as many voices as they wanted, in effect a large choral group with the four of them singing multiple...
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The Singers Unlimited - Part 3
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.How do you turn a fantasy into a reality?How do you take a multi-talented vocal Jazz group and produce fourteen [14] state of the art...
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