Mulligan Plays Mulligan

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These 1951 recordings were Gerry Mulligan's first as a leader, and they're testimony to his skills as both a composer and an improvising soloist. Five charts for a nine-piece group expand on the kind of work Mulligan had done on the Birth of the Cool sessions two years earlier, though here he develops some darker ensemble textures with the use of two baritone saxophones. As a composer, Mulligan was already a master of subtle voicings, and he coupled them with tunes that could generate an easy swing. The concluding "Mulligan's Too" is a 17-minute blowing tune with strong solos by Mulligan and Allen Eager, the latter making positive use of the influence of Lester Young on the era's younger tenor players. --Stuart Broomer

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Average customer rating: A Swingin' 50's Big Band Session

Elliot Lawrence Band Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements Elliot Lawrence Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Swings Cohn & Kahn The Dynamic Sound Patterns Jazz á la Bohemia Jawbreakers The Other Side of Benny Golson ASIN: B000000Y6V Release Date: 1996-07-16

Tracks:

1. The Rocker
2. Bye Bye Blackbird
3. Happy Hooligan
4. Mullenium
5. My Silent Love
6. Bweebida Bwobbida
7. Strike Up The Band
8. Apple Core
9. Elegy For Two Clarinets
10. The Swinging Door
11. But Not For Me
12. Mr. President

Customer Reviews:

A Swingin' 50's Big Band Session.......2000-12-17

If you like the kind of big band orchestration that grew out of the 1950's west coast jazz scene - like the arrangements by Bill Holman, Marty Paich, Pete Rugolo etc. - then I think you'll like this disc. Lawrence's band is essentially a first rate studio ensemble that works through a book of arrangements by Gerry Mulligan. 12 charts in all including a few Mulligan originals and a few standards. Not the best of the genre, but certainly worth the price of admission.

Average customer rating: Triple Bari Awesomeness! Buy this CD Some of Mulligan's greatest Great CD for Mulligan Fans!

Plays Mulligan Three Baritone Saxophone Band Manufacturer: Dreyfus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: On a Different Level Flight of the Eagle A Proper Introduction to Serge Chaloff: The Baritone Sax Master Hidden Treasures Blue Serge ASIN: B000001ZTK Release Date: 1998-02-17

Tracks:

1. Line For Lyons
2. Blue Port
3. I Want To Live
4. Walkin' Shoes
5. Elevation
6. Black Nightgown
7. Bernie's Tune
8. Festive Minor
9. Theme For Jobim
10. Five Brothers
11. Lonesome Boulevard
12. Waltz For Geraldus

Customer Reviews:

Triple Bari Awesomeness!.......2006-07-29

This CD is great! As a bari player, this is one of the best CDs I've ever listened to. The three bari Mulligan arrangements are really well done. It's great to hear so many awesome bari players play together. Get this CD!

Buy this CD.......2001-05-14

I have owned this CD for at least 2 years, and I just listened to it again today, first time in about 2 months. It always sounds fresh and makes me laugh out loud with joy at about 4 minutes and 40 seconds of Black Nightgown when the boys bring the tune home.

You would not really have to be a Mulligan fan to get a charge out of this CD, just the playing is enough; for example listen to the bass solos on Festive Minor and Walkin' Shoes, and the bari sound at the beginning of Waltz For Geraldus.

I wish the group would have a go at another CD. Are you listening Ronnie Cuber?

Some of Mulligan's greatest.......1998-10-30

Songs in this CD are great, though a few of them lack the spunk I expected. Overall a great CD and well worth the buy.

Great CD for Mulligan Fans!.......1998-07-02

This CD is a masterpiece for every Gerry Mulligan fan on Earth! Cuber makes the music magic, and also does a very good job arranging the music for THREE Baritone saxohponists! This is a Great CD for anyone who ever listened to Mulligan!

Average customer rating: Krupa goes modern

Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements Gene Krupa Manufacturer: Verve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Verve | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Modern Touch Blues Caravan Sittin' In Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bob Brookmeyer Sweets ASIN: B0007KVAZ2 Release Date: 2005-04-26

Tracks:

1. Bird House
2. Margie
3. Mulligan Stew
4. Begin the Beguine
5. Sugar
6. Way of All Flesh
7. Disc Jockey Jump
8. Birds of a Feather
9. Sometimes I'm Happy
10. How High the Moon
11. If You Were the Only Girl
12. Yardbird Suite

Customer Reviews:

Krupa goes modern.......2005-08-04

These arrangements were written by Gerry Mulligan when he was with the Krupa band at age 19 playing tenor and alto. This album of his early arrangements was recorded 12 years later when Mulligan returned to conduct the band at age 31. Krupa had recorded Disc Jockey Jump many years earlier and it became something of a hit. It's hard to understand why he waited all those years to record the balance of the arrangements. The album is one of the early stereo efforts, saxaphones left, trumpets right, a little too much ping pong effect but cleanly recorded (why wasn't this corrected in the remix?) But this is an excellent album, for Krupa a different, more modern sound compared to the Roy Eldridge/Anita O'Day band of Yesteryear.

Average customer rating: Mulligan's Magic

Mulligan Plays Mulligan Gerry Mulligan Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Like Basie Encounter! The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady ASIN: B000000XZW Release Date: 1993-09-28

Tracks:

1. Funhouse
2. Ide's Side
3. Roundhouse
4. Kaper
5. Bweebida Bobbida
6. Mullenium
7. Mulligan's Too

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These 1951 recordings were Gerry Mulligan's first as a leader, and they're testimony to his skills as both a composer and an improvising soloist. Five charts for a nine-piece group expand on the kind of work Mulligan had done on the Birth of the Cool sessions two years earlier, though here he develops some darker ensemble textures with the use of two baritone saxophones. As a composer, Mulligan was already a master of subtle voicings, and he coupled them with tunes that could generate an easy swing. The concluding "Mulligan's Too" is a 17-minute blowing tune with strong solos by Mulligan and Allen Eager, the latter making positive use of the influence of Lester Young on the era's younger tenor players. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

Mulligan's Magic.......2006-01-29

Composer, arranger and one of the absolute masters of the unwieldy baritone saxophone, Gerry Mulligan was already a noted figure in the world of modern jazz when he recorded this, his first session as a leader, in 1951. Coming in between Mulligan's groundbreaking work with Miles Davis' BIRTH OF THE COOL nonet and the even greater achievements he would shortly realize in his pianoless quartet with Chet Baker and Chico Hamilton, MULLIGAN PLAYS MULLIGAN catches a rising young star in full creative glory, fronting a large ensemble which more than does justice to his compositions. From the haunting intelligence of "Roundhouse" to the fiery "Mullenium," the six relatively short performances here all showcase Mulligan's gifts as both a conceptual and a performing musician, while the seventeen-minute workout "Mulligan's Too" is as impressive in its way as any of the taut, snappy three-minute masterpieces which would soon make his reputation. It's hard to imagine Gerry Mulligan having made anything less than an excellent album at this point in his career, and he didn't.
A few months after this session, Mulligan would leave New York and big bands behind to record his most important and innovative works on the west coast. MULLIGAN PLAYS MULLIGAN is an effective summation of how much he had already achieved, at the tender age of twenty-four, back home in the Big Apple.

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