GERRY MULLIGAN/PACIFIC JAZZ 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
During the summer of 1952, Gerry Mulligan brought worldwide attention to the Los Angeles jazz scene with the creation of his "pianoless" Quartet. The group's success at The Haig opened doors for many west coast musicians and was also responsible for the birth of Pacific Jazz Records. In addition to the Quartet, Mulligan also wrote a number of compositions and arrangements for Stan Kenton's Orchestra as well as his own Tentette.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, Ken Poston, Director of The Los Angeles Jazz Institute is pleased to announce a very exclusive 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF GERRY MULLIGAN'S WEST COAST YEARS taking place July 31 at the Hermosa Playhouse , 710 Pier Ave. in Hermosa Beach with a special pre-concert dinner party at the legendary Lighthouse Cafe.
UNHEARD GERRY MULLIGAN ARRANGEMENTS FOR STAN KENTON
For this very special evening at the Playhouse, Bill Holman will be leading his All-Star Big Band performing Mulligan's arrangements written for the Stan Kenton Orchestra and the Gerry Mulligan Tentette. Kenton only recorded a handful of Mulligan's arrangements but we will be featuring many of the "unheard" Mulligan pieces. In addition to his work for Kenton, Mulligan also did some further explorations with a "Birth of the Cool" type ensemble which became The Gerry Mulligan Tentette. The opening set at The Playhouse will feature these Gerry Mulligan classics.
PIANOLESS QUARTET AT THE LIGHTHOUSE
The pre-concert dinner party at the Lighthouse will feature a special performance of Mulligan's "pianoless" Quartet music with Jack Sheldon, Stacy Rowles, Bill Perkins, Bob Efford, Putter Smith and more. There will also be a number of special guests including William Claxton, Bob Whitlock, Roy Harte, Howard Rumsey and Dotty Woodward who will be present to share their remembrances of Mulligan, Chet Baker and the birth of the Pacific Jazz label.
VIP tickets which include the pre-concert party at the Lighthouse Cafe and preferred seating at The Hermosa Playhouse are $100
There are only 100 VIP tickets available on a first come first serve basis.
The Lighthouse party begins at 5:30pm. The Hermosa Playhouse concert begins at 8:30pm.
Reserved seat tickets for the Hermosa Playhouse concert only are $30
The Hermosa Playhouse only seats 500 so please get your tickets early.
To order tickets by phone with Visa, MC, Discover or American Express call
(909)599-2912 or you can send a check or money order to:
The Los Angeles Jazz Institute
P.O. Box 8038
Long Beach, CA 90808-0038
GERRY MULLIGAN COLLECTION AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The Library of Congress negotiated the donation of music manuscripts with Franca and Gerry Mulligan before he died. The entire collection consists of 64,477 pages of music.
The Library of Congress opened the permanent exhibit of The Gerry Mulligan Collection in April 1999 which is housed next to the Music Reading Room, and consists of some 700 items including Mr. Mulligan's favorite baritone saxophone, lead sheets, arrangements for his Tentet and his famous Concert Jazz Band, photographs, etc., all donated by Franca R. Mulligan.
Information about these recordings are now available on the Library of Congress web site by this way:
Firstly go to : HTTP://catalog.loc.gov
On the right of the page you'll select :
"start searching" of the SONIC catalog
You're now on the SONIC MAIN MENU
On the left of this new page you select :
NAME
You're now on the Name search page
You write GERRY MULLIGAN in the space "Name"
then
Select "personnal name" from the given choice in the "Name type" space
Press search
You're now of the SONIC Brief results page. You can read more informations
of one of the 257 results in select "Full description"
The Hits 1-18 are about discs used by the US Army
After these hits you have a lot of information about unissued recordings
(concerts, studio sessions, outtakes.....).
I select and present only some of the highlights of this incredible collection. They are very new for me. I classified them in :
1) Newport Jazz Festival recordings :
1955 07 16 Newport with Wild Bill Davidson Ref 129
1955 07 17 Newport with Kai Winding Ref 134
1961 07 02 CJB NEWPORT Ref 167
1962 07 06 with C Hawkins NEWPORT Ref 175
2) Studio sessions or rehearsals
1957 04 19 Columbia studio sessions (alternate takes) Ref 143
1959 11 00 Rehearsal with Ben Webster Ref 20
1961 04 00 Judy HOLLIDAY (alt takes) Various references
1962 00 00 Quartet with Paul Desmond (alt takes) Various references
1971 02 00 Age of Steam Orch NEW SONGS Various references
1971 04 09 WILDER WINDS Rehearsal Ref 199
3) Concerts recordings, TV shows:
1957 03 24 NYC various combos Ref 142
1957 05 20 Quartet PARIS Ref 30
1958 10 04 Quartet MONTEREY Ref 154
1960 00 00 CJB HUNTER COLLEGE Ref 29 & 46
1960 04 03 CJB RED HILL INN Ref 158
1960 05 03 MOSCOW !!!!!!!!!! Ref 157
1960 12 15 CJB and Judy Holliday Ref 161
1962 04 27 CJB BIRDLAND Ref 173
1965 05 17 Tonight TV Show with Woody Allen playing baritone saxophone too !!!! ) Ref 180
1970 04 15 GRACE CATHEDRAL, SAN FRANCISCO Ref 191
1972 03 25 Brubeck quintet NEW PALTZ Ref 204
1972 06 15 Brubeck Quintet DELAWARE Ref 204 & 205
1973 04 08 Baritone saxophone Concerto of F PROTO !!!!!! Ref 213
1975 12 20 Sextet CHICAGO Ref 228 & 229
The reading of this list of Mulligan recordings is really fabulous. To imagine Gerry Mulligan at Moscow, to see the unusual meeting of Jeru with Woody Allen, to share the listening the F Proto's baritone saxophone concerto, are my dreams !!!!
The Music division team realized a work of Titan in listening and copying (saving) to all these tapes. We can access at all the information obtained from these tapes. Unhappily some of them are incomplete, many themes being unknown.
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I don't wish to say more about this marvellous and instructive pages dedicated to Jeru, please visit it and go for an incredible travel.
GERRY MULLIGAN RECORDINGS
1. More information about the Miramar CD "JAZZ SPECIAL, Blue Night Special"
Among the song listed there is "Walking Shoes" (6mn00s)
The collective personnal can give two rhythm sections at Gerry Mulligan.
What is the real one ? 1) Gordon Beck (p), Ron Mathewson (b), Daniel Humair (d), 2) Mike Renzi (p), Jay Leonhart (b), Grady Tate (d).
Our friend Wendell Norman got this CD. In reality, this song is "Line for Lyons" and was previously issued on the Daniel Humair's Flat and Sharp CD 239228 called "Surrounded". So the good rhythm section is the first one, with Gordon Beck. The quartet was recorded during the Chateauvallon Jazz Festival, the 26th of august 1971
2. Newport 1979
Joe Williams - Anita O'Day - Buddy Rich, announcer : Gerry Mulligan
NYC
Private recording or commercial video issue, TV broadcast ??
Gerry Mulligan is featured many times as announcer. There is also a part of "Satin Doll" played by the Gerry Mulligan New Concert Jazz Band.
Joe Williams sang : "I'll take you just the way you are" and "Everything must change"
Anita O'Day : "It don't mean a thing"
Buddy Rich : 10 min drum solo !
3. June 30, 1984 Gerry Mulligan with the Filarmonica Veneta
CastelFranco Veneto
Private recording
During this concert, Gerry Mulligan played the world premiere of his composition "Entente". Rico Saccani was the conductor of the Filarmonica Veneta. The concert was shared between the symphonic part and the quartet one. "Please don't talk about me when I'm gone" is from the "Feeling Good" songbook. Gerry liked very much this song and played it regularly during his symphonic performances. Then in our recording we find four Mulligan's songs that Gerry Mulligan played very regularly at this period; among them the unissued theme on commercial CD "Around Sundown".
At last, "Entente" in a different form than the Houston concert in February 1987. For the first "Entente" performances in 1984, there was a long introduction by the philhamonic orchestra.
A. Please don't talk about me When I'm gone (2mn51s)
B. For an Unfinished Woman (8mn10s)
C. Walk on the Water (6mn13s)
D. Around Sundown (6mn33s) (incomplete)
E. Sun on Stairs (5mn41s)
F. Entente (13mn26s) /
A, F are played with the Filarmonica Veneta
B & E are quartet performances /
4. ORNELLA VANONI
"Sheherazade"
CGD EAST WEST CD 13889 (issued in 1998)
Gerry Mulligan is featured on the song S.O.S. At the end of June 1995 for Gerry participated as a guest soloist on the Ornella Vanoni album - "Sheherazade"
SOS (4mn09s) is a song of M.Martin, O Vanoni and G. Di Michele and was arranged by Mike Mani. The musicians are, Giovanni Zucchi (programmation), Alfredo Golino (d), Furio Di Castri (b), Nguyen Le (elg) and of course Gerry Mulligan (bs). Gerry played a nice counter point.
This CD was previously issued on ALEX CD 5676 in 1996.
5. GERRY MULLIGAN, ORNELLA VANONI AND THE TIBETAN MONKS
Milano, Teatro Nazionale, October 9, 1995
On October 9th, 1995 at the Teatro Nazionale in Milano, Italy, Mulligan performed at the benefit concert Concerto Per Essere Liberi with the Tibetan Monks of the Sera Je Monastery in India, and Ornella Vanoni. The concert was organized by Franca Mulligan with the Rabten Ghe-Pel-Ling Centre for Tibetan Studies in Milano. At this extraordinary concert, Gerry improvised with thirteen monks who played on their traditional instruments.
OTHER MUSICIANS PLAY GERRY MULLIGAN ORIGINALS :
1. Carol Fredette sings Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough
Brownstone 9903 "Everything I need"
I received this CD. This is an excellent one.
Carol Fredette sang with various combos. She features Bob Dorough on the song "Never in a single year", and Dave Frishberg on the excellent "I got to get me some ZZZ".
The exact composition of the combo which played the Jack Daney's arrangement of "Zoot Walks In" is : Carol Fredette (vcl), Steve Kuhn (p), Rufus Reid (b), Billy Drummond (d), Lew Soloff (tp), Wayne Andre (tb), Lee Konitz (as), Chris Potter (ts), Ronnie Cuber (bs).
This song starts by a duet between the tenor saxophonist Chris Potter and Carol Fredette, they played the theme slowly and bluesy. Following the lyrics, then the wind section plays with swing. The order of the soli is Chris Potter, Ronnie Cuber, Steve kuhn. At last Lew Soloff plays the theme.
This combo played the following songs "Never in a single year" and "Wouldn't You ?" which is based on "Woody 'n' you"
The review gives the following information : Lee Konitz, Ronnie Cuber (vocals) !! Is this true ? My answer is no
2.Sherri Roberts "Dreamsville" Brownstone 9811
I've got this CD. This new take of Dave Frishberg "Zoot Walks In" (4mn00s) is played on a higher tempo and swinger than the Carol Fredette version. Chris Potter takes the tenor solo. Sherry Roberts is assisted by pianist Mark Soskin, bassist Harvie Swartz, drummer Danny Gottlieb
3. East Down Septet "Channel Surfing", HEP CD 2069
I've got this CD directly from HEP records. This septet is a very nice one and is composed by two members of the 29th street saxophone quartet, Rich Rothenberg (ts) and Jim Hartog (bs) and also Tom Varner (french horn), Ron Horton (tp), Pete McCann (elg, g, banjo), Bill Moring (b), Rich Rosenzweig (d, orchestra bells). The arrangement is from the Jim Hartog's pen. This is a marvellous and unique reprise of "Tell me when". Jim Hartog played the theme very softly, following by Tom Varner (the French horn sound being so near of the valve trombone one), the trumpet player, the tenor saxophonist took nice soli.
On this CD you also find an excellent suite based on the "Once Upon a Time in the West" music.
You can also find in Hep Records the second East Down Septet CD "Out of Gridlock". Please, search these two records, they are great !!
4. Ygor Mamoushev "While the night is leaving", ROSTOK Records CD 148
Igor Mamoushev is an ukrenian pianist. His play sounds very classic and he offers us nice piano solo interpretations of standards (Misty, Autumn Leaves, Tea For Two, Soul Eyes).
He performs "Line For Lyons" in a medium tempo, he shows a nice control of the swing.
Line for Lyons (3mn50s). This CD was issued in 2001.
To contact ROSTOK Records : rostok@records.kiev.ua , http//www.rostokrecords.kiev.ua
5. Don Menza Quintet, Hamburg 1987
Broadcasted by SWF, Jazz in the Night, a large programme between midnight and 6 a.m !
Chuck Findley (tp, flh), Don Menza (ts), Frank Strazzieri (p), Frank De la Rosa (b), Jimmy Smith (d)
Line for Lyons (11mn23s).
A very nice version of "Line for Lyons". The Frank Strazzieri introduction is in a beautiful samba feeling, then the wind players takes their soli, firstly the trumpet player Chuck Findley and then Don Menza, followed by a four bars exchange (ts, d, tp, d).
6. STAN KENTON ORCHESTRA : Stompin' at Newport
Pablo PACD-5312-2
The Opener, Artistry in Rhythm, Stompin' at the Savoy, Yesterdays, Intermission Riff, 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West, Everything Happens to Me, The Peanut Vendor, The End of a Love Affair, Young Blood, La Suerte de Los Tontos (Fortune of Fools), The Big Chase
with Ed Leddy, Sam Noto, Lee Katzman, Phil Gilbert, Bill Catalano, Kent Larsen, Archie LeCoque, Don Reed, Jim Amlotte, Kenny Shroyer, Lennie Niehaus, Bill Perkins, Wayne Dunstan, Steve Perlo, Bill Robinson, Red Kelly, Jerry McKenzie
Recorded in performance July 5, 1957. http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/kenton_s_cat.html
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
1. GERRY MULLIGAN IN SPAIN 1962-1963
I try to get information about Gerry Mulligan in Spain during the 60s. Very
hard to find !!!
I noted a photography of Gerry Mulligan in the WHISKY JAZZ club of Madrid,
probably dated in 1962-1965 (to be confirmed) on the web page
www.margencero.com/regoli/regoli2.htm
I got more information about the spanish tenor saxophonist Pedro Iturralde
(born 1929). The page
http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=iturralde informed us
that Pedro Iturralde played in the "Whisky Jazz Club" with such guest jazz
artists as Don Byas, Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan during the beginning of
the 60s
2. NPR JAZZ PROFILES : GERRY MULLIGAN
I received a home made CD about the Jazz Profiles : Gerry
Mulligan, with the information "Recorded in 2002".
In reality this programme was already broadcasted in 1996, April 29 and I
got it in summer 1996. So this is only a new broadcast and not a new
programme. This one includes an interesting Gerry Mulligan' s interview.
3. GERRY MULLIGAN IN MOSCOW USSR
I've found the following information about Gerry Mulligan in USSR in the Gerry Mulligan collection of the Library of Congress .
March 3, 1960 Gerry Mulligan Quintet
MOSCOW, Cafe Molodjoznoye
Gerry Mulligan (as), Vladimir Sermakhashev (ts), Vagif Sadyhov (p), Andrey Yegorev (b), Vladimir Amatuni (d)
A. Lester leaps in
-RGA 2676 of LOC (duration : 001500)
Such a date is very surprising !
Gerry Mulligan was alone and he played alto saxophone. We were able to believe that this was Moscow (Idaho), but the Molodiojnoie cafe is really in Moscow.
Searching on the net, we note that Gerry Mulligan played with I A Shirokov at the Molodiojnoje Cafe in Moscow in 1972 !!! Was this during the Dave Brubeck Quintet tour in October-november 1972 ?
Here the informations collected about Shirokov :
1949 : Igor Anatolievich SHIROKOV was born in Novosibirsk.
1958-62 : Training in trumpet play at Music School in Novosibirsk
1972 : Living in Moscow. Steady gig at the Molodiojnoje Cafe playing with visitors Gerry Mulligan and Charles Lloyd
4. THE VOICE OF AMERICA HOUR, NOVEMBER 23, 1956
http://www.tonyscott.it/1956_voice_of_america.htm
You'll find in this Tony Scott web site a discussion for Voice of America
with Tony Scott, Quincy Jones, Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan... about the
hungarian jazz music.should play jazz."
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