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With the holiday season upon us, I hope you will consider making a gift of A Jazz West Coast Volume 1 to the Jazz fans among your family and friends.
It is available exclusively through Amazon.com and it offers 46 chapters plus an Introduction, Prologue and Epilogue each of which is full of information about the West Coast Jazz Masters including Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, Shelly Manne and Howard Rumsey and the Lighthouse All-Stars.
I have priced it very reasonably at $24.99 for the paperback and $9.99 for an eBook.
To give you some idea of the breadth and depth of the writings on offer in this 347 page anthology, some of which are extremely rare, I am posting the book’s Table of Contents for you to look over.
Also, please keep in mind that I am sharing 50% of the profits from the sale of the book to the local school district for use toward the purchase of musical instruments for individual students.
Happy Holidays to you and yours from The Cerra Family.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Jazz West Coast Style of Music by Steven A. Cerra, pp. 6-9
Prologue – West Coast Sounds by John Dutton, pp. 10-16
Chapter 1. Central Avenue Sounds by Bob Gordon, 17-32
Chapter 2. Shorty Rogers and His Giants – by Bob Gordon, 33-44
Chapter 3. Shorty Rogers and the Development of the West Coast Style of Jazz by John Graas, pp. 45-48
Chapter 4. Shorty Rogers – The Gentle Giant by Howard Lucraft, pp. 49-53
Chapter 5. Shorty Rogers The Steve Voce Interview, pp. 54-58
Chapter 6. Shelly Manne – The Lighthouse and Shorty Rogers – Steven A. Cerra, pp. 59-73
Chapter 7. The Lighthouse Café as an Incubator for West Coast Jazz by Steven A. Cerra, pp. 74-77
Chapter 8. Jim Giuffre Musician by Nat Hentoff – Jim Giuffre Composer As Told to Downbeat [John Tynan], pp. 78-81
Chapter 9. The Passionate Conviction: An Interview with Jimmy Giuffre by Lorin Stephens, pp. 82-90.
Chapter 10. Jimmy Giuffre in the Jazz Literature : Jordi Pujol, Will McFarland and Francis Davis, pp. 91-101
Chapter 11. Jimmy Giuffre – The Pastoral Man by Ed Michel, pp. 102-112
Chapter 12. Peter Welding – Booklet Notes to The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Tentette with Chet Baker [Mosaic MR 5-102], pp. 113-118
Chapter 13. Gerry Mulligan: The Gordon Jack Interview, pp. 119-125
Chapter 14. The West Coast School Of White Musicians And Its Soloists – from “Modern Jazz” by Morgan and Horricks, pp. 126-134
Chapter 15. The Composers of the West Coast School – from “Modern Jazz” by Morgan and Horricks, pp. 135-142
Chapter 16. Shelly Redux – More Thoughts From and About The Manne by Steven A. Cerra, pp. 143-153
Chapter 17. Shelly Manne & His Men at The Blackhawk: A Review of the Jazz Literature by Steven A. Cerra, pp. 154-169
Chapter 18. Shelly Manne and His Men Play Peter Gunn by Lester Koenig, pp. 170-172
Chapter 19. Hank Mancini – Jazz Musician by Steven A. Cerra, pp. 173-175
Chapter 20. Stan Getz – East of the Sun: The West Coast Sessions – The Ted Gioia Notes, pp. 176-181
Chapter 21. STAN AND GERRY – Occasional Collaborators” by Gordon Jack, pp. 182-185
Chapter 22. Shelly Manne: “Portrait of a Jazz Success” by John Tynan, pp.186-193
Chapter 23. Art Pepper – “The Whiteness of the Wail” by Gary Giddins, pp. 194-197
Chapter 24. Art Pepper-Marty Paich Inc. by Alun Morgan, pp. 198-203
Chapter 25. Art Pepper Plus Eleven by Marty Paich, pp. 204-207
Chapter 26. “Straight Life – The Story of Art Pepper” by Gary Giddins, pp. 208-212
Chapter 27. Art Pepper by Larry Kart, pp. 213-217
Chapter 28. Stan Levey – The Alun Morgan Interview, pp.218-222
Chapter 29. Stan Levey: From Left to Right – The JazzProfiles Interview by Steven A. Cerra, pp. 223-231
Chapter 30. Stan Levey – The Gordon Jack Interview, pp. 232-236
Chapter 31. Mel Lewis in the Jazz Literature – Steven A. Cerra, Ed.. pp. 237-247
Chapter 32. Mel Lewis – Life in Los Angeles – Chris Smith, pp. 248-253
Chapter 33. Mel Lewis, Terry Gibbs and The Dream Band by Terry Gibbs and Chris Smith, pp. 254-258
Chapter 34. Larry Bunker – Portrait of a Jazz Drummer and Studio Musician – The Gordon Jack Interview, pp. 259-263
Chapter 35. Larry Bunker – Modern Drummer Interview with David Levine and the Steve Voce Obituary for the Independent, pp. 264-269
Chapter 36. Whatever Happened to Larry Bunker? by Mal Sands, pp. 270-277
Chapter 37. JazzLife – Hollywood and Los Angeles by William Claxton, pp. 278-284
Chapter 38. Dave Pell by Gordon Jack, pp. 285-288
Chapter 39. Dave Pell – The Complete Trend and Kapp Recordings 1953-1956 by Steven A. Cerra and Jordi Pujol, pp. 289-296
Chapter 40. The Case for Dave Pell – The Octets and Beyond by Steven A. Cerra, pp. 297-302
Chapter 41. Chico Hamilton Quintet – The Robert Gordon/Mosaic Records Notes, pp. 303-307
Chapter 42. The Chico Hamilton Quintet by Gordon Jack, pp. 308-312
Chapter 43. Terry Gibbs’ Big Band – “Vamp ‘Till Ready” by John Tynan, pp. 313-318
Chapter 44. Part 1 – The Terry Gibbs Dream Band from “Terry Gibbs Good Vibes – A Life in Jazz,” pp. 319-326
Chapter 45. Part 2 -The Terry Gibbs Dream Band from “Terry Gibbs Good Vibes – A Life in Jazz,” pp. 327-334
Chapter 46. Part 3 -The Terry Gibbs Dream Band from “Terry Gibbs Good Vibes – A Life in Jazz,” pp. 335-344
Epilogue: Jazz on the West Coast – “Preface” by Robert Gordon, pp. 345-347