Gerry Mulligan
ALBUM
Una raccolta completa degli album di Gerry Mulligan, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.
Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan
Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Blue Note Tone Poet Series
Gerry Mulligan
The Concert Jazz Band '63
Live At Webster Hall
Gerry Mulligan
The Concert Jazz Band
Gerry Mulligan
Little Big Horn
Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Peterson Trio
Stan Getz And Gerry Mulligan/Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio
Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
Gerry Mulligan
Night Lights
Expanded EditionGerry Mulligan, Ben Webster
The Complete Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster Sessions
Gerry Mulligan
The Age Of Steam
Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan: Verve Ultimate Cool
Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond
Blues In Time
Gerry Mulligan
Presenting The Gerry Mulligan Sextet
Mel Tormé, Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing
The Classic Concert Live
Gerry Mulligan
Walkman Jazz : Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges
Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges
Gerry Mulligan
Jazz Profile: Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond Quartet
Gerry Mulligan - Paul Desmond Quartet / Blues In Time
Expanded EditionGerry Mulligan
Jazz Masters 36: Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
Re-Birth Of The Cool
Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker
Best Of Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker
Gerry Mulligan
California Concerts
Volume 2
Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker
Reunion With Chet Baker
BIOGRAFIA
No baritone saxophonist even achieved such a high degree of visibility—nor played that cumbersome horn with as much grace—as did Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996). Born in New York City and raised in Philadelphia, Mulligan made his initial marks in the jazz world as an arranger, for the Gene Krupa, Elliott Lawrence, and Claude Thornhill orchestras, as well as Miles Davis’s legendary Birth of the Cool sessions, on which the saxophonist also soloed.
Wide fame came to Mulligan for his 1952-1953 quartet featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and its recordings on the Pacific Jazz and Fantasy labels, of which “My Funny Valentine” on Fantasy was an especially strong seller. The group epitomized the then-emerging “cool” sound associated with the West Coast and was unique because it contained no pianist. The idea of not having a piano was, Mulligan recalled, “a happy accident” that occurred because he found the 66-key mini-piano at a Los Angeles club where he’d been booked to be unsuitable. “It worked because Chet was such a lyrical player,” the saxophonist explained. “I played counter lines on the baritone, and it gave the illusion of an ensemble.”
Sidemen in later editions of Mulligan’s combo included valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, and trumpeters Jon Eardley and Art Farmer. Between 1960 and ’63, the no-piano small-group concept was expanded into a unit of 13-15 musicians known as the Concert Jazz Band, though he or Brookmeyer played piano on some selections. The baritone titan made a number of albums on which he was co-billed with other jazz greats, including Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Johnny Hodges, Thelonious Monk, and Ben Webster, and from 1968 to ’72 was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Bio courtesy of Concord Music Group
