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Something Cool - June Christy
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Christy had no musical training, and was unable to read music. She sang by instinct and natural ability. If she was unaware of her technical...
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SONNY ROLLINS PLAYS THE BLUES by Simon Spillett
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.These days it seems, insert notes are often a rather perfunctory affair, if they are included at all, in the release of new music in...
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Joe Morello - An Interview with Les Tomkins
© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Any good Jazz musician has developed from hard work and hard thought, a personal conception. When he improvises successfully on the stand...
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“Gerry Mulligan: My Approach to the Orchestra,” Les Tomkins 1985
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.The tone and tenor of Les Tomkins’ later-in-career-interview with Gerry Mulligan which was published in the June/July 1985 issue of...
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Hank Mobley in the Down Beat Hall of Fame - 2019
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.It’s hard to think of any other Jazz musician whose recorded work was as consistently pleasing as that of tenor saxophonist Hank...
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Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.How this for a subtitle?“THE TUNES, THE TANTRUMS, THE LICKS, THE SPATS, THE CATS, THE TRAGEDIES, THE GREATS, THE NOT-SO-GREATS AND...
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Sam Woodyard: A Real Swinger
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Woodyard is a temperamental musician, but at his best is one of the greatest Jazz drummers. His work with Ellington was frequently of the...
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Jim Heath [1926-2020] R.I.P. - A Little Heat from Jimmy Heath - [From the...
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.Jimmy Heath [b.10/25/1926] died on January 19, 2020 and the editorial staff at JazzProfiles is re-posting this earlier piece as a tribute to...
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Jim Hall - "Unalloyed Beauty"
© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.“Every Jim Hall solo is a masterpiece of construction, each phrase evolving logically from its predecessor, his rhythmic sense always in...
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Hank Mobley Links to JazzProfiles Blog Postings
© Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.In his booklet notes to the Mosaic Records The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions, 1963-1970 boxed set [MD8-268], Bob...
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