Gerry Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz

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Gerry Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz
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Studio album by Gerry Mulligan
Released 1961
Recorded July 10 & 11, 1961
Webster Hall, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length33:10
Label Verve V/V6 8415
Producer Jim Davies
Gerry Mulligan chronology
Holliday with Mulligan
(1961)		Gerry Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz
(1961)		 The Gerry Mulligan Quartet
(1962)

Gerry Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist and bandleader Gerry Mulligan featuring performances recorded in 1961 which were released on the Verve label. [1] [2] [3]

Gerry Mulligan American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer

Gerald Joseph Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a significant 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 best cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions, such as "Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become jazz standards.

Verve Records American record label

Verve Records, also known as The Verve Music Group, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others. It absorbed the catalogues of Granz's earlier labels, Clef Records, founded in 1946, Norgran Records, founded in 1953, and material previously licensed to Mercury Records.

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Reception

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Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating: "Gerry Mulligan's third LP to feature his Concert Jazz Band is one of his best efforts, because the concert repertoire recorded during this pair of 1961 studio sessions was written specifically for his group". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Gerry Mulligan except as indicated

  1. "All About Rosie" (George Russell) - 9:38
  2. "Weep" (Gary McFarland) - 5:57
  3. "I Know, Don't Know How" - 5:18
  4. "Chuggin'" (McFarland) - 4:42
  5. "Summer's Over" - 4:29
  6. "Israel" (John Carisi) - 3:06

Personnel

Baritone saxophone member of the saxophone family, smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use, and uses a mouthpiece, reed, and ligature that are larger than the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.

The baritone saxophone or "bari sax" is one of the larger members of the saxophone family, only being smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use. The baritone saxophone uses a mouthpiece, reed, and ligature in order to produce sound. It is larger than the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, which are the other commonly found members of the family. The baritone saxophone is commonly used in classical music such as concert band, chamber music, military bands, jazz. It also is occasionally employed in marching bands, though less frequently than other saxophones due to its size and weight.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ Verve Records Catalog: 8400 series accessed February 29, 2016
  2. ↑ Discography of the Verve, Clef and Norgran labels accessed February 29, 2016
  3. ↑ Dugelay, G & Hallqvist, K. Gerry Mulligan Discography Archived April 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine . accessed February 29, 2016
  4. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. Presents a Concert in Jazz – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 29, 2016.
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