Search results for "Gerry Mulligan"

Gerry Mulligan: A Ballad (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

As chief arranger and co-principal soloist, Gerry Mulligan helped deliver Miles Davis's obstetric triumph Birth of th...

Gerry Mulligan-Ben Webster: Tell Me When (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 06, 09

The Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster album is best known for its exquisite version of Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Brid...

Gerry Mulligan: Lady Chatterley's Mother (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 09, 08

Gerry Mulligan's early '60s Concert Jazz Band was one of the most musically influential big bands of its time. That i...

Gerry Mulligan: Jeru (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

Gerry Mulligan's immense talent as a performer, composer and arranger were so significantly impressive throughout the...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond: Battle Hymn of the Republican (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

Who else but frustrated Democrat Paul Desmond could come up with a title as witty as this? Besides being Dave Brubeck...

Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker: Bernie's Tune (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

In Los Angeles during the summer of 1952, transplanted New Yorker Gerry Mulligan inaugurated a new era of West Coast ...

Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band: Weep (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

After Gary McFarland arrived in New York City in the fall of 1960, he met Bob Brookmeyer, who invited him to a rehear...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND

Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...

Gerry Mulligan (featuring Zoot Sims): Come Rain or Come Shine (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Tenor sax ballads typically feature the lineup most conducive to intimacy, a single horn with rhythm section. Yet her...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

Producer Orrin Keepnews always did a brilliant job of putting his star musicians into interesting settings that tende...

Gerry Mulligan with Marian McPartland: C Jam Blues (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 25, 08

At this stage of his career, Gerry Mulligan was best known for leading a quartet without a piano. Yet here he is at t...

Lee Konitz & The Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Too Marvelous For Words (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 08, 08

The highly original alto saxophonist Lee Konitz came to prominence with small groups led by cool jazz pioneer Lennie ...

Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan: That Old Feeling – as heard in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992) and Celebrity (1998) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

In the 1950s, owning a mere record player was not enough. Audiophiles grew so obsessed with turntables, cartridges, s...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan: Scrapple From The Apple (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

Recently reissued in a spanking fresh, restored digital recording, the inevitable summit meeting between the formidab...

Elliott Lawrence: Elevation (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Within every fat person is a thin one longing to get out. We're reminded of this dubious adage by Gerry Mulligan's yo...

Gene Krupa: Disc Jockey Jump (1958) (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

The first thing one notices in comparing this remake with Krupa's 1947 original is the much-improved sound. Stereo! W...

Gene Krupa: Disc Jockey Jump (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Gerry Mulligan was 19 when jazz superstar Gene Krupa waxed the lanky kid arranger's "Disc Jockey Jump." Like many pan...

Gene Krupa: How High the Moon (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

By mid-1946, when Gene Krupa recorded 19-year-old arranger Gerry Mulligan's arrangement of "How High the Moon," the 1...

Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Easy Living Medley (Easy Living/Everything Happens to Me/Moon Dreams) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

For my last choice I'm going to offer something that 99% of you will not have heard, because it seems not to have bee...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Gerry Mulligan: You Took Advantage of Me (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

In 1960, when Gerry Mulligan and his former longtime sideman Bob Brookmeyer assembled a 13-piece band, economics rend...

Gerry Mulligan: La plus que lente (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

During the mid-1950s, Gerry Mulligan expanded his famous pianoless quartet to a pianoless sextet, allowing a return t...

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