The Essential Collection gets seriously cool with our latest set of jazz releases!
We take a look at the cool West Coast sound of ace Baritone Sax man Gerry Mulligan.
An integral part, both as writer and player, of the Miles Davis nonet that created the legendary and hugely influential Birth Of The Cool album in 1948, Mulligan was truly a jazz giant in his own right.
Here we find Mulligan performing with, amongst many fine players, fellow cool school hipsters Chet Baker and Lee Konitz, Larry Bunker, Chico Hamilton and Bud Shank.
Featured in both small group setting and in a Birth of the Cool style tentette, this remarkable music sounds as fresh today as it was when it was made over fifty years ago.
CD1
GERRY MULLIGAN QUARTET
1. Bernies Tune
2. Lullaby Of The Leaves
3. Line For Lyons
4. Carioca
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Bark For Barksdale
7. Nights At The Turntable
8. Frenesi
9. Freeway
10. Soft Shoe
11. Walkin Shoes
12. Arent You Glad Youre You?
13. Limelight
14. The Lady Is A Tramp
15. Turnstile
16. Moonlight In Vermont
GERRY MULLIGAN QUARTET WITH LEE KONITZ
17. Too Marvelous For Words
18. Lover Man
19. I’ll Remember April
20. These Foolish Things
21. All The Things You Are
22. Almost Like Being In Love
23. Sextet
24. Broadway
25. I Cant Believe That Your In Love With Me
CD2
GERRY MULLIGAN TENTRETTE
1. Ballad
2. Westwood Walk
3. Walkin Shoes
4. Rocker
5. Taking A Chance On Me
6. Flash
7. Simbah
8. Ontet
GERRY MULLIGAN QUARTET
9. Carson City Stage
10. Cherry
11. Motel
12. Makin Whoopee
13. My Old Flame
14. Swing House
15. Jeru
16. Darn That Dream
17. I May Be Wrong
18. Im Beginning To See The Light
19. The Nearness Of You
20. Tea For Two
21. Half Nelson
22. Lady Bird
23. Speak Low
24. Varsity Drag
25. Love Me Or Leave Me
26. Swing House
