Gerry Mulligan

Gerry Mulligan – Gerry Mulligan Sextet – Stuttgart 1977 (1977/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:11 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
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Together with Gil Evans and Miles Davis, the 20 year old Gerry Mulligan conceived the revolutionary nonet music for Birth of the Cool. In Stuttgart, at age 50, he was already looking back on a career spanning almost thirty years and was much in demand. The fact that he wrote fascinating film scores and won Grammys for them in the ‘70s, not to mention his burgeoning interest in jazz-rock fusions, once again highlighted this extraordinary musician’s exceptional openness and creative potential. These recordings were previously released as “Liederhalle Stuttgart November 22, 1977”.

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Gerry Mulligan – Mulligan Meets Monk (1957/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:39 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Mulligan Meets Monk is a studio album by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, originally released on Riverside Records in 1957. It has been reissued numerous times. It was remastered for CD in 1987 (on Fantasy’s Original Jazz Classics) with three additional alternative takes from the original session.

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Gerry Mulligan – Body And Soul (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:45 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Blues
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Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan’s pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. “There are some words that have been kind of lost from modern usage that I would like to bring to my music and have striven all my life to do, BEAUTY, GRACE, NOBILITY, these are the things that music can bring to us, as human beings. I think it is well that we who make music keep that in our consciousness.” -GERRY MULLIGAN

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Gerry Mulligan – All that Jazz, Vol. 147: Mullenium! (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:21:45 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The most famous and probably greatest jazz baritonist of all time, Gerry Mulligan was a giant. A flexible soloist who was always ready to jam with anyone from Dixielanders to the most advanced boppers, Mulligan brought a somewhat revolutionary light sound to his potentially awkward and brutal horn and played with the speed and dexterity of an altoist.

Mulligan started on the piano before learning clarinet and the various saxophones. His initial reputation was as an arranger. In 1944 he wrote charts for Johnny Warrington’s radio band and soon was making contributions to the books of Tommy Tucker and George Paxton. He moved to New York in 1946 and joined Gene Krupa’s Orchestra as a staff arranger; his most notable chart was “Disc Jockey Jump.” The rare times he played with Krupa’s band was on alto and the same situation existed when he was with Claude Thornhill in 1948.

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