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The Singers Unlimited - Part 4
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Our revels now are ended. These our actors. As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air.... We are such stuff as...
View ArticleBob Cooper, 1925-1993: A Tribute
Tenor saxophonist Bob Cooper performing his original composition "Jubilation" with Conte Candoli, trumpet, Frank Rosolino, trombone, Victor Feldman, piano, Howard Rumsey, bass and Stan Levey, drums.
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Peter Welding - Booklet Notes to The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The following is excerpted from Peter Welding’s booklet Notes to The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol Recordings of the Gerry...
View ArticleWoody Herman & His Orchestra - Crying Sands.-
From 1944 with Ben Webster playing tenor sax on Woody's Band and an arrangement by Ralph Burns.
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AL COHN AND ZOOT SIMS: TWO FUNKY PEOPLE 1952-1961 - by Simon Spillett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“[Al and Zoot's] musical philosophy...[is] unpretentious, straight-ahead, hard-swinging, happy-go-lucky, irresistibly infectious...
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Michael Bourne, "Gerry Mulligan, Singing a Song of Mulligan."
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing...
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Loren Schoenberg Introduction/Interview from The Mosaic Complete Columbia...
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.With the recent arrival of the Mosaic Records boxed set The Complete Woody Herman Decca, Mars and MGM Sessions (1943-1954) [MD7-267]...
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Quincy Jones's Morning Orange Juice - "Kind of Blue"
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Kind of Blue has been on my mind a lot recently. Whatever the nature of the neurological or sensory impulse, occasionally I find the music...
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Shelly Manne and Victor Feldman at The Black Hawk
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."During my years of labor at KGO-TV in San Francisco, I never passed the parking lot a block away at Turk and Hyde without regretting the...
View ArticleBlue Mitchell - "Chick's Tune"
Pianist Chick Corea wrote "his" tune based on the chord changes to "You Stepped Out of a Dream." This version features him on piano with Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor sax, and a...
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Gerry Mulligan: Born Again On the Little Bighorn by Brian Morton
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“ … perhaps Mulligan’s most significant single contribution to modern Jazz has been, until recently, poorly recognised and largely...
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Les Brown and His Band of Renown - Part 1
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."I'll look in books and see almost no mention of Les. I don't think it's fair. Or right."- Frank Comstock, composer-arranger"Throughout...
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Les Brown and His Band of Renown - Part 2
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved."Most of the bands were folding at the time[1947]. We were lucky: we had Bob Hope to keep us warm. You have to be lucky in this business....
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Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis: Tough Tenor Saxophonist
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Davis straddles bop and swing in his phrasing; if anything, with his swallowed notes, sandpapery tone and sudden shrieks, he’s already a...
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