Gerry Mulligan - Mulligan Plays Mulligan (1956)

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Title: Mulligan Plays Mulligan
Year Of Release: 1989
Label: OJC[OJCCD-003-2]
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Cool
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 38:12
Total Size: 195 MB(+3%) | 91 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01 - Funhouse
02 - Ide's Side
03 - Roundhouse
04 - Kaper
05 - Bweebida Bobbida
06 - Mullenium
07 - Mulligan's Too
Gerry Mulligan - Mulligan Plays Mulligan (1956)

personnel :

Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone
Allen Eager - tenor saxophone
Max McElroy - baritone saxophone
Jerry Hurwitz - trumpet
Nick Travis - trumpet
Ollie Wilson - trombone
George Wallington - piano
Phil Leshin - bass
Walter Bolden - drums
Gail Madden - maracas

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on August 27, 1951.
Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1982, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).

Gerry Mulligan's first session as a leader and one of the first to showcase his baritone was recorded in New York shortly before he relocated to Los Angeles and formed his famous pianoless quartet with Chet Baker. There is a piano on this set (George Wallington) but Mulligan's writing (all seven selections are his) for a two-baritone nonet that also features trumpeter Nick Travis and tenor-saxophonist Allan Eager is already in his influential "cool style"; best-known among the originals is "Bweebida Bwobbida." Two numbers on the CD reissue feature a smaller unit out of the group with "Mulligan's Too" being an extended workout for the leader and Eager. ~ Scott Yanow