GERRY MULLIGAN

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Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer and arranger.

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.

Gerry Mulligan's first notable recorded work on baritone was with Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool nonet (1948-50) but once again his arrangements ("Godchild," "Darn That Dream" and three of his originals "Jeru," "Rocker" and "Venus de Milo") were
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GERRY MULLIGAN Discography

GERRY MULLIGAN albums / top albums

GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan and his Ten-Tette album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan and his Ten-Tette
Cool Jazz 1953
GERRY MULLIGAN Mulligan's Too album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mulligan's Too
Cool Jazz 1953
GERRY MULLIGAN Gene Norman Presents The Gerry Mulligan Quartet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gene Norman Presents The Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Cool Jazz 1954
GERRY MULLIGAN Mainstream Of Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mainstream Of Jazz
Cool Jazz 1956
GERRY MULLIGAN Modern Sounds album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Modern Sounds
Cool Jazz 1956
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz
Cool Jazz 1957
GERRY MULLIGAN The Jazz Combo From 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Jazz Combo From "I Want To Live!"
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1958
GERRY MULLIGAN Play Phil Sunkel`s Jazz Concerto Grosso album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Play Phil Sunkel`s Jazz Concerto Grosso
Cool Jazz 1958
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan Quartet : Reunion With Chet Baker album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan Quartet : Reunion With Chet Baker
Cool Jazz 1958
GERRY MULLIGAN The Gerry Mulligan Songbook Volume 1 album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
The Gerry Mulligan Songbook Volume 1
Cool Jazz 1958
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan And His Orchestra : Profil album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan And His Orchestra : Profil
Cool Jazz 1958
GERRY MULLIGAN A Profile Of Gerry Mulligan album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Profile Of Gerry Mulligan
Cool Jazz 1959
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
Bop 1960
GERRY MULLIGAN Meets Johnny Hodges album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Meets Johnny Hodges
Cool Jazz 1961
GERRY MULLIGAN The Gerry Mulligan Quartet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Cool Jazz 1962
GERRY MULLIGAN Spring Is Sprung (aka Four For Three aka Saxy!) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spring Is Sprung (aka Four For Three aka Saxy!)
Cool Jazz 1963
GERRY MULLIGAN Night Lights (aka Gerry Mulligan/Amiga) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Night Lights (aka Gerry Mulligan/Amiga)
Cool Jazz 1963
GERRY MULLIGAN Jeru album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jeru
Cool Jazz 1963
GERRY MULLIGAN The Great Gerry Mulligan album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
The Great Gerry Mulligan
Cool Jazz 1963
GERRY MULLIGAN Butterfly With Hiccups (aka Line For Lyons ) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Butterfly With Hiccups (aka Line For Lyons )
Cool Jazz 1964
GERRY MULLIGAN Line For Lyons album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Line For Lyons
Cool Jazz 1964
GERRY MULLIGAN If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em!
Cool Jazz 1965
GERRY MULLIGAN Feelin' Good album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Feelin' Good
Cool Jazz 1965
GERRY MULLIGAN Something Borrowed - Something Blue album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Something Borrowed - Something Blue
Cool Jazz 1966
GERRY MULLIGAN Love Walked In album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Love Walked In
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1968
GERRY MULLIGAN The Age of Steam album cover 4.50 | 2 ratings
The Age of Steam
Cool Jazz 1972
GERRY MULLIGAN Idol Gossip album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Idol Gossip
Cool Jazz 1976
GERRY MULLIGAN Original Soundtrack For La Menace album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Original Soundtrack For La Menace
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1977
GERRY MULLIGAN Walk on the Water album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Walk on the Water
Cool Jazz 1980
GERRY MULLIGAN Little Big Horn album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Little Big Horn
Cool Jazz 1983
GERRY MULLIGAN Mainstream Of Jazz Vol. 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mainstream Of Jazz Vol. 2
Cool Jazz 1984
GERRY MULLIGAN Mainstream Of Jazz Vol. 3 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mainstream Of Jazz Vol. 3
Cool Jazz 1984
GERRY MULLIGAN Lonesome Boulevard album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Lonesome Boulevard
Cool Jazz 1990
GERRY MULLIGAN Re-Birth of the Cool album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Re-Birth of the Cool
Cool Jazz 1992
GERRY MULLIGAN Paraíso (with Jane Duboc) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Paraíso (with Jane Duboc)
Cool Jazz 1993
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan Quartet ‎: Dream A Little Dream album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan Quartet ‎: Dream A Little Dream
Cool Jazz 1994
GERRY MULLIGAN Dragonfly album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
Dragonfly
Cool Jazz 1995
GERRY MULLIGAN The Art of Gerry Mulligan : The Final Recordings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Art of Gerry Mulligan : The Final Recordings
Cool Jazz 2000

GERRY MULLIGAN EPs & splits

GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan Quartet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Cool Jazz 1953
GERRY MULLIGAN The Gerry Mulligan Quartet Vol. 3 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet Vol. 3
Cool Jazz 1956
GERRY MULLIGAN Mulligan And Baker! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mulligan And Baker!
Cool Jazz 1957
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan / Chet Baker ‎: Timeless album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan / Chet Baker ‎: Timeless
Cool Jazz 1963
GERRY MULLIGAN The Arranger album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Arranger
Big Band 1977
GERRY MULLIGAN Mulligan In The Main album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mulligan In The Main
Cool Jazz 1992

GERRY MULLIGAN live albums

GERRY MULLIGAN 3me Salon Du Jazz - Salle Pleyel, Juin 1954 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
3me Salon Du Jazz - Salle Pleyel, Juin 1954
Cool Jazz 1954
GERRY MULLIGAN Recorded In Boston At Storyville album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Recorded In Boston At Storyville
Cool Jazz 1957
GERRY MULLIGAN The Concert Jazz Band album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Concert Jazz Band
Cool Jazz 1960
GERRY MULLIGAN At The Village Vanguard album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
At The Village Vanguard
Cool Jazz 1961
GERRY MULLIGAN A Concert In Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Concert In Jazz
Cool Jazz 1961
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan And The Concert Jazz Band On Tour album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan And The Concert Jazz Band On Tour
Cool Jazz 1962
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan Inedit album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan Inedit
Cool Jazz 1962
GERRY MULLIGAN '63: The Concert Jazz Band album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
'63: The Concert Jazz Band
Cool Jazz 1963
GERRY MULLIGAN Symphonic Dreams album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Symphonic Dreams
Third Stream 1987
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan 1959 : Live In Konserthuset album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan 1959 : Live In Konserthuset
Cool Jazz 1989
GERRY MULLIGAN A Night In Rome Vol. 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Night In Rome Vol. 1
Cool Jazz 1990
GERRY MULLIGAN A Night In Rome Vol. 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Night In Rome Vol. 2
Cool Jazz 1990
GERRY MULLIGAN Jam Session! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jam Session!
Cool Jazz 1990
GERRY MULLIGAN Concert In The Rain album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Concert In The Rain
Big Band 1996
GERRY MULLIGAN 1960 Zurich album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
1960 Zurich
Cool Jazz 1999
GERRY MULLIGAN The Gerry Mulligan Quartets In Concert album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Gerry Mulligan Quartets In Concert
Cool Jazz 2001
GERRY MULLIGAN Midas Touch: Live in Berlin album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Midas Touch: Live in Berlin
Cool Jazz 2003
GERRY MULLIGAN Spring In Stockholm Live At Konserthuset, 1959 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spring In Stockholm Live At Konserthuset, 1959
Cool Jazz 2024
GERRY MULLIGAN Nocturne album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nocturne
Cool Jazz 2025

GERRY MULLIGAN demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

GERRY MULLIGAN re-issues & compilations

GERRY MULLIGAN The Gerry Mulligan Quartet Plus Lee Konitz, Vol. 3 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet Plus Lee Konitz, Vol. 3
Cool Jazz 1953
GERRY MULLIGAN Modern Jazz Spectacular album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Modern Jazz Spectacular
Bop 1955
GERRY MULLIGAN The Genius Of Gerry Mulligan album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Genius Of Gerry Mulligan
Cool Jazz 1960
GERRY MULLIGAN Nightwatch album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nightwatch
Cool Jazz 1961
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan And Annie Ross album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan And Annie Ross
Cool Jazz 1963
GERRY MULLIGAN Relax! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Relax!
Cool Jazz 1964
GERRY MULLIGAN Concert Days album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Concert Days
Cool Jazz 1966
GERRY MULLIGAN The Fabulous Gerry Mulligan Quartet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Fabulous Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Cool Jazz 1971
GERRY MULLIGAN Felicitas album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Felicitas
Cool Jazz 1974
GERRY MULLIGAN Jazz Legacy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Legacy
Cool Jazz 1980
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan Meets the Saxophonists album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan Meets the Saxophonists
Cool Jazz 1985
GERRY MULLIGAN The Gerry Mulligan Quartet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Cool Jazz 1986
GERRY MULLIGAN California Concerts, Volume 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
California Concerts, Volume 2
Cool Jazz 1987
GERRY MULLIGAN California Concerts • Volume 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
California Concerts • Volume 1
Cool Jazz 1988
GERRY MULLIGAN Verve Jazz Masters 36 album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Verve Jazz Masters 36
Cool Jazz 1994
GERRY MULLIGAN This Is Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
This Is Jazz
Cool Jazz 1996
GERRY MULLIGAN Mullenium album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mullenium
Cool Jazz 1998
GERRY MULLIGAN The Original Quartet With Chet Baker album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Original Quartet With Chet Baker
Cool Jazz 1998
GERRY MULLIGAN Greatest Hits album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Greatest Hits
Cool Jazz 1998
GERRY MULLIGAN Modern Jazz Archive album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Modern Jazz Archive
Cool Jazz 2004
GERRY MULLIGAN Complete Live In Rome Concert album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Complete Live In Rome Concert
Cool Jazz 2004
GERRY MULLIGAN Midnite Jazz & Blues: My Funny Valentine album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Midnite Jazz & Blues: My Funny Valentine
Cool Jazz 2005
GERRY MULLIGAN Gerry Mulligan Quartet : Complete Studio Recordings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerry Mulligan Quartet : Complete Studio Recordings
Cool Jazz 2005
GERRY MULLIGAN Live In California! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live In California!
Cool Jazz 2006
GERRY MULLIGAN The Jazz Soundtracks album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
The Jazz Soundtracks
Cool Jazz 2006
GERRY MULLIGAN The Pacific Jazz Collection album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Pacific Jazz Collection
Cool Jazz 2017

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In Sweden
Cool Jazz 2008

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GERRY MULLIGAN The Great Gerry Mulligan

Album · 1963 · Cool Jazz
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There’s a lot of mystery surrounding the 1963 LP, “The Great Gerry Mulligan”, you can‘t find information about it anywhere, meanwhile, there are people on the internet trying to pass it off as a valuable rarity, which is surprising since it came out on the Crown label. Crown was a very cheap budget label that often re-packaged old by-passed recording sessions in flimsy album jackets that were known to fall apart. In true Crown style, the credits on this album jacket itself are a source of wrong information. The cover lists five musician’s names, but there are clearly only four on the record. Apparently tenor saxophonist Bill Robinson appears on the album cover, but is nowhere to be found on the record itself. Also, a ‘’Bob Gibson’, who is supposedly the drummer, does not show on any other jazz records anywhere and was probably a drummer who could not use his real name, either for contractual reasons or just plain shame. Since Crown is apt to use older recording sessions, I searched high and low to see if these musicians had ever worked together on another recording and only came up with a big band date featuring trumpeter Dick Hurwitz with Bill Robinson, but then Bill doesn’t really play on this record so that was no help, ha. The fact that this is not the usual crowd that Mulligan normally worked with just adds to the dubious mystery of this LP.

So what about the music? Things start off strong with the up-tempo bop of opening track “Turnstile”, one of the few songs on the album to feature much in the way of chord changes and arrangement. Mulligan and Hurvitz play with the melody and intertwine like Bird and Diz making you think you have scored a really cool LP. Follow up cut “Side Track” continues in a similar vein, but then comes the downhill slide into mediocrity. The next two cuts are based on children’s folk songs of the variety that were used to force young people to sing in US public schools in the 50s and 60s. The rest of the album is comprised of blues based jams, probably improvised on the spot, as well as one more children’s song. To the musician’s credit, every song on the album is handled with wit and creativity, but the choice of material is of the variety that arises when you are hastily throwing something together. The 'jokey' song titles such as "Shoe Enough" and "Yknuf" only make this more apparent.

Certainly the great Gerry Mulligan has much better records out there than “The Great Gerry Mulligan”, but this LP isn’t that bad either. In a lot of ways this record sounds like an afternoon jam session at a club with the musicians getting a bit silly here and there with the cheezy folk songs, but is this a “valuable rarity”, I wouldn’t think so. I found my copy in a thrift store for a buck, that seems like a reasonable price. On the plus side, for a Crown release, the sound quality is quite good, featuring a very bold upfront analog sound with no gimmicks or additives.

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snobb wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Thanks - added all three
4theboids wrote:
more than 2 years ago
There's a great live album that needs to be here, "Carnegie Hall concert" where Gerry and Chet Baker played together again for the first time in over 20 years, also featured a young up and coming John Scofield on guitar. "Age of Steam" needs to be here too, overlooked classic in the Mulligan canon.

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