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I recently received two tapes concerning the Kristianstadt concert of the Gerry Mulligan sextet. This performance was really exciting ; the musicians played wonderfully. Unusual songs, rare treatment of the Paul Desmond's TAKE FIVE, were the highlights of this evening.

With the quartet, the sextet was one of the favorite combos of Gerry Mulligan. From the great 1954-1956 sextet (featuring Zoot Sims, Bob Brookmeyer) to this 1976-1977 one, we find an interesting evolution of the Mulligan writing.

1. HISTORY OF THE SEXTETS

The first sextet included four horns, Jon Eardley or Don Ferrara (tp), Bob Brookmeyer (vtb), Zoot Sims (ts), and Gerry Mulligan (bs), Bill Crow (b) and Dave Bailey (d) being on tour the most regular rhythm section.

Nevertheless there were always on stage a piano and two pianists (Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer). They had their own and different styles. So during the concert the combo had various configurations and the audience was amazed by these various facets, and by the incredible and complex counter-point lines.

This sextet can be heard on various Ermarcy LPs and CDs. It also toured in Europe between February and April 1956. Happily the RAI TV recorded the sextet at Milano. The three songs selected were : Walking Shoes, Ontet (Gerry at the piano) and Bernie's Tune. This document is the unique TV recording of the sextet. There are also two audio recordings recorded live at the Basin Street Club of New York City in October and December 1955. Portions of these concerts are on the Jazz Band CD Two Times Four Plus Six.

During the summer 1956 Zoot Sims left the group to record some own studio sessions.

Gerry Mulligan continued with his pianoless quartet until Newport 1957, when Bob Brookmeyer went away.

In 1963 the sextet was reborn. This combo was a synthesis of the previous works of Gerry Mulligan . Art Farmer was the trumpet player of the 1958-1959 quartet. Bob Brookmeyer came back with Gerry in 1960 to play and arrange for the Concert Jazz Band. The more recent companion is the guitarist Jim Hall, a musician who played with Jimmy Giuffre, Sonny Rollins, Paul Desmond. The information concerning this sextet are particularly restrained at the studio sessions (September - October 1963). Two Lps were issued : "Night Lights" for Philips Records and "Butterfly with Hiccups" for Limelight records. The first one is regularly present in our record shops, the second one has not yet been issued on CD. Only one live recording was made at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1963. But this recording offers us only two songs.

The song book was very interesting with a panel of new Mulligan themes (Beaver, The Ant Hill, Butterfly with Hiccups, Blues for Linda, Theme for Jobim).

Compared at the previous sextet, the evolution is minimum : one horn minus , replaced by one chord instrument.

The late 60s and the early 70s (are) were dedicated to the Dave Brubeck - Gerry Mulligan association. Since 1952 Dave and Gerry had been friends and there were many meetings in concert (from Newport 1954 to Newport 1962).

If the first period (1968 - 1970) seemed to be only dedicated to the Dave Brubeck Trio featuring Gerry Mulligan, the second one (1971 - 1973) was more varied :

Dave Brubeck trio featuring Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan (1972 - 1973)
Dave Brubeck family with Gerry Mulligan (1973)
Gerry Mulligan "Age of Steam" Orchestra (1971)
Many quartets with pianists like Jacky Byard, Gordon Beck, Junior Mance (1971)

In 1973 a new sextet was organized, Gerry played with it at the Half Note Club of New York City. Gerry Mulligan is the only horn, the other musicians are Hank Jones (p), Joe Venuto (vib), Sam Brown (g), Chuck Israel (b) and Jim Madison (d). Some months later in 1974, a similar sextet played again in this club. Jimmy Cathcart played piano and keyboards, Skip Reed vibes and percussion, George Mraz was the bassist and Jim Madison the drummer.

In july 1974, Gerry Mulligan played at the Newport Jazz Festival . This (is) was not the sextet but a quintet, with no guitarist present. Jack Six (b) and Bill Goodwin (d). The song book is primarily the "Age of Steam" one and some rare interpretations of "Welcome Home", "My Ship", "September Song".

In late july 1974, Gerry Mulligan toured in Italy with a quintet , including Renato Sellani (p), Dodo Goya (b), Tullio De Piscopo (d), Gianni Basso (ts). This is my first information about this Italian combo being quintet or sextet. Tullio De Piscopo played with Gerry Mulligan and Astor Piazzola in September and October 1974.

The 24th of November , Gerry Mulligan performed at the Carnegie Hall Concert. This concert was given in three parts: a Chet Baker one, a Gerry Mulligan one with Chet Baker as guest and also a Stan Getz one. As seen one the cover of the CTI LP or CD, the unknown tenor saxophonist is Stan Getz. Gerry, Chet and Stan played together on one song.

Gerry Mulligan used the Chet Baker's rhythm section (Bob James (elp), Ron Carter (b), Harvey Mason (d)) and added his own touch with Dave Samuels (vib), John Scofield (g).

In April 1975 Gerry Mulligan and Astor Piazzola toured in Europe, the combo was composed by Tom Fay (p), Sergio Farina (g), Giuseppe Pino Prestipino (elb), Tullio De Pisocopo (d), One set was for Gerry Mulligan , the second was dedicated to Astor Piazzola and the last one was the reunion of Astor and Gerry and the songs of this last set were those that had been issued on the LP.

The Gerry Mulligan collection at the Library of Congress presents us a concert of the Gerry Mulligan Sextet at Rasto's club, Chicago in December 20 - 21, 1975. This the complete recording of this performance. The musician were Dave Samuels, John Scofield, Frank Luther (b), Bill Goodwin (d) and Tom Fay (p). The song book :

1. My Funny Valentine
2. Five Brothers
3. News from Blueport
4. As Catch Can
5. Night Lights
6. Song for an Unfinished woman
7. Song for Strayhorn
8. Maytag
9. Taurus moon
10. It's Sandy at the Beach
11. Golden Notebook
12. K4 Pacific
13. Walk on the Water
14. Bloomsbury Square
15. The Useless Waltz.

The programme is a survey of the Gerry Mulligan Career, including a lot of the "Age of Steam" songbook. There are also the unique take of "The Useless Waltz", and the (alone) sextet versions of "Bloomsbury Square" and "Golden Notebook".

During the summer 1976, Gerry Mulligan played regularly with his Italian friends, nevertheless some members of his American sextet came to Italy, firstly the vibes player Dave Samuels and then the pianist Tom Fay. This period is well documented by live broadcast recordings.

2. THE LAST REGULAR SEXTET 1976 - 1977

In September and October 1976, Gerry Mulligan came back to New York City to record his new sextet album. This american sextet was composed of old friends like Bobby Rosengarden, George Duvivier and also by young and talented musicians (Tom Fay, Dave Samuels and the guitarist Mike Santiago). This sextet would be unchanged until late 1977, which is also the end of the sextet story.

This recording is rich with new Mulligan originals :

"Out of the Barn" , taken in a slow tempo
"Strayhorn 2" , a variation of the famous song dedicated to Billy Strayhorn
"Waltzing Mathilda", the Australian traditional
"Idol Gossip", a theme based on "Bernie's Tune"
"North Atlantic Run", brazilian rhythms
"Just Want to Sing and Dance like Fred Astaire", a theme only issued on the CD


1975 seems to be the period of his first concerts with the soprano saxophone. At first , he probably played a curved saxophone as shown on some photographies and also seen in a german TV broadcast in January 1976. In the latter part of this month Gerry Mulligan was one of the guest stars of the Peter Herbolzeimer orchestra (with Stan Getz, Art Farmer, Toots à..). During the final "Blues", all the guests played a short solo. Stan Getz finished his one and he heard the sound of the soprano. The tenor player was very surprised ! There was no soprano saxophonist as guest ! He looked back and when he saw his friend Gerry playing soprano he was astounded !

So with a leader playing piano, soprano and baritone saxophones, with three chords instruments (p, vib, g), the Gerry Mulligan sextet had a lot of possibilities to present.

The sextet toured in Europe during November and December 1976. Italy, Germany , Belgium, Netherland and France were the countries visited by the combo.

During the Berlin and Dusseldorf concerts the sextet was honoured by the presence of Art Farmer. The tour finished with two concerts in Paris, Gerry Mulligan featured university big bands (Glassboro Big Band, Jersey Big Band). The programme was very diversified, quartet, sextet, tentet and orchestra.

Surely the sextet toured in USA during 1977, but the information and the documents are very rare (Dick Cavett TV Show / 1977, Newport Jazz Festival / June 26, 1977), happily the 1977 European tour was very well documented by complete radio broadcast and private recordings (Roma, Stuttgart, Paris, Kristianstadt).

The sextet was really at his best, each concert being extremely interesting.

When I received the two tapes covering the Kristianstadt concert, I decided to compare all of them more closely, trying to understand the organisation of the programme and also of each songs. This was a lot of work, but the result was great.

3. THE KRISTIANSTADT CONCERT

The Kristianstadt concert is sometimes dated November 29, 1976 but the real date is November 29, 1977. This date is confirmed by Swedish jazz review and also by the fact that in 1976 Gerry Mulligan had many concerts in Italia (Vercilli, 26 ; Verona, 28 ; Pescara, 30 ; Bassano Del Grappa, Dec 1). The programme is also more similar with the 1977concerts than the 1976 ones. Gerry played the following songs :

First set :
Maytag
Five Brothers
For An Unfinished woman
Take 5
Blues at the Roots
Night Lights
Idol Gossip

Second set :
Walk on the Water
Taurus Moon
Out Back of the Barn
Line for Lyons
Song for Stayhorn
Welcome Blues

Encores :
Waltzing Mathilda
Satin Doll

A lot of the themes are dedicated to the baritone saxophone, but during the concert the pianist Gerry Mulligan is always present !

The effect on the neophyte public was great, the musicians present in the concert hall appreciated the play of Gerry Mulligan, a little rough but always with fabulous harmonic developments. During this concert, Gerry played an unique medley of two of his compositions played regularly at the piano "Blues at the Roots" (1955) and "Night Light" (1963).

"Blues at the Roots" would be played some days later at Paris (December 2, 1977).

Jeru at the soprano saxophone was really a new thing for the audience of 1976-1977. He plays very nicely this difficult saxophone on "Taurus Moon", "Walk on the Water", "42nd and Broadway", themes which will become his favorite songs at the soprano. But during this time, he played rare takes of "Take Five" and "Song for Strayhorn" with this instrument.

Three sidemen got many solos along these two sets, These are Dave Samuel (vibes) (9 themes), Mike Santiago (g) (8 themes) and Tom Fay (p) (7 themes), If the bassist George Duvivier and the drummer Bobby Rosengarden have fewer solos , their playing is great.

First set :

To open his concert, Gerry Mulligan loved to grab the public with a high tempo theme. "Maytag" had these qualities. He also liked to explain the origin of the theme "Maytag", which was the label of his Mother's washing machine ! This was also the opportunity to present the members of the sextet, Dave Samuels, Mike Santiago and Tom Fay taking each two choruses, George Duvivier only one and at last there were exchanges between Bobby Rosengarden and Gerry Mulligan. Later in the 80s themes like "Wood in Wood", "The Flying Scotsman" had the same target and impact on the audience !

Gerry continued by a "walking" theme, "Five Brothers". Gerry Mulligan is very impressive with such a theme. His improvisations were very well built, his perfect technique and impressive sound control.

The concert continued by one of the best "Age of Steam" theme "For an Unfinished Woman". The rhythm beat was perfect, Gerry presented slowly the theme. Then the song was like a long crescendo. The final tension was always a highlight of a Mulligan concert.

Gerry played the song "Take Five" many many times when he toured with the Dave Brubeck Trio between 1968 and 1973. This was always with the baritone saxophone, this performance gave the first recorded version with the soprano. This version sounded like a waltz, Dave Samuel was the second soloist.

Third change of the combo, Gerry sat down at the piano and played his theme "Blue at the Roots". The chord evolution is typically "Mulliganian" or Ellingtonian. It was the orchestra side of the piano which was heard. Mike, Dave and Tom and George got their solos. Then Gerry started the second theme of this ôpianoö medley ôNight Lightö . This song written during the early 60s is a very nice Mulligan original. Gerry played it regularly as encore but only at the piano, but during a concert, he also switched at the baritone saxophone after his piano introduction. Again Mike Santiago and Dave Samuel offer us excellent solos.

Gerry Mulligan finished this first set by his new composition "Idol Gossip", a theme based on the "Bernie's Tune" chords and recently recorded on the last album of Gerry for Chiaroscuro Records. This was the first song from the new album but not the last.

Second set :

Gerry Mulligan started this set at the soprano saxophone for two recent originals (Chiaroscuro album). Firstly, he played "Walk on the Water", one of his nicest themes. A song which will be played during the 80s until Gerry ranged it in its case (around 1988) after his last big band tour. Then Jeru gave at the Swedish public a new interpretation of "Taurus Moon". The soloists were Mike, George , and Tom.

The sound of the baritone came back with the excellent blues "Out Back of the Barn". The tempo is faster than the album one. This theme, like "Five Brothers", offered each member the possibilities to engage the audience.

Then Gerry selected from his incredible songbook the old and famous "Line for Lyons"

. The concert continued with "Song for Strayhorn". Gerry, as usual, was fantastic. The sextet version of this song gave a very nice chorus played by Tom Fay and Dave Samuel. Later Mitch Forman offer us a fabulous chorus (Walk on the Water / DRG album). During the 80s when Gerry played with symphonic orchestra, he selected the Tom Fay arrangement of "Song for Strayhorn".

The last song of the second set was played rarely during this time and was never issued on LP. "Welcome Blues" presented many members of the sextet.

After a long applause, Gerry Mulligan came back to play his first encore "Waltzing Mathilda". This Australian traditional song is really perfect to show the Mulligan talent.

Gerry closed the concert with the Billy Strayhorn composition "Satin Doll". This encore will be played at each concert . This practice started probably with the sextet, as "Waltzing Mathilda", this song emphasizes Gerry Mulligan's baritone saxophone.

4. THE LAST SEXTET

The last known sextet concert is dated of December 1977. In 1978 Gerry Mulligan started to lead his CJB again. This period of intensive orchestra tour continued until 1983. I don't know dates of concert with the sextet during 1978.

During the 80s, the Gerry Mulligan career was shared between quartet tours, symphonic performances, some concerts with the big band and also a lot of appearance as guest star.

There was a unique concert at Marciac (France) that Gerry Mulligan performed with a sextet. This August 12, 1993 Gerry Mulligan invited his old friends Bob Brookmeyer and Lee Konitz to play with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet composed by Ron Vincent (d), Dean Johnson (b) and Ted Rosenthal (p). The concert was great , the rhythm section was one of the nicest that Gerry had and was associated with two jazz stars who knew the Mulligan songbook perfectly.

The quartet started the concert playing "The Flying Scotsman", "Lonesome Boulevard", "Midas Lives"; then Bob Brookmeyer joined the quartet and they played "A gift for Dizzy". When Lee Konitz arrived on the stage, the sextet performed the old songbook. A part of standard, "Bernie's Tune", "My Funny Valentine", "Lady Be Good"; and also some great Mulligan originals, "Soft Shoes", "Walking Shoes", "Line for Lyons".

The concert finished by a sextet interpretation of "Satin Doll".

5. THE SEXTETS

The sextet seems to be a perfect sized combo for Gerry Mulligan. It gives more liberty for the improvisations and the "arranger" facet of Gerry Mulligan is present. Each sextet is in reality a multitude of formations and shows the various talents of its members. Nevertheless there is an evolution of the sextet organisation during the years, from 4 horns in 1955 to only one twenty years later, but the performance stays always exciting.

1. 1969 All-star White House Tribute to DUKE ELLINGTON

Blue Note 7243 5 35249 2 Recorded in the East Room of the White House, Washington DC

The band was composed (by) of Bill Berry (tp), Clark Terry (tp, flh), Urbee Green, JJ Johnson (tb), Paul Desmond (as), Gerry Mulligan (bs), Hank Jones (p), Jim Hall (g), Milt Hinton (b), Louie Bellson (d)

The singers (are) were Mary Mayo and Joe Williams. The guest pianists were Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Earl Hines and Billy Taylor

The Band played the following songs : Take the A Train (1), Just Squeeze me (6), I let a song go out of my heart (7), Do nothing till you hear from me (8), Don't get around much anymore (9), In a mellotone (10), Prelude to a kiss (12), Ring Dem Bells (13), Warm Valley (19), Caravan (20), Mood Indigo (21), Praise God and dance (24), Come Sunday (25), Heritage (26), Jump for Joy (27).

Gerry Mulligan is also heard

during the first medley on "Sophisticated Lady" (5), he is accompanied by Hank Jones, Jim Hall, Milt Hinton, Louie Bellson
during a Brubeck-Desmond-Mulligan meeting on "Things Ain't what they used to be" (17)
The Gerry Mulligan soli with the Band are on :

In a mellotone
Prelude to a kiss
Warm Valley
Mood Indigo

During this concert, many songs (are) were played without Gerry Mulligan :

During the first medley : I got it bad, Chelsea Bridge, Satin Doll
In a sentimental mood
During the second medley : Drop me off in Harlem, All too soon, It don't mean a thing Perdido
During the third medley : Prelude to a kiss (vocal take), I didn't know about you Pat

Sophisticated Lady : With the Duke Ellington orchestra , this song has been dedicated to Harry Carney since Newport 1956. At the end of this tune, Harry used a very impressive continual breath. If Gerry doesn't use this technique, his interpretation is full of delicatess .

Warm Valley : This was a Johnny Hodges song, this is the first time I heard a baritone saxophonist playing "Warm Valley" Prelude to a kiss : This first take was arranged by Gerry Mulligan for the band.

2. Judy Holliday : "Trouble is a man"

DRG CD 91467 Judy Holliday was an actress, not a singer, but she recorded two albums of songs in 1958 and 1960. This one is the first. Judy was accompagnied by an orchestra arranged by Glenn Osser.

Fans of the actress will find this CD reissue (which has the original dozen songs plus two numbers from her 1960 album with Gerry Mulligan of interest.

The songs are : Trouble is a man (2:39), How about me ? (3:33), What I was warned about (2:34), I got lost in his arms (3:29), What'll I do ? (2:46), Lonely Town (3:43), Am I blue ? (2:59), Confession (2:02), An occasional man (2:23), A ride on a rainbow (3:41), Where have you been ? (3:19), I'm one of God's Children (3:14) Loving you (2:19), The Party's over (2:31)

Release in august 2001

3. Gerry Mulligan & the Concert Jazz Band:

Paris Jazz Concert, Olympia - November 19th, 1960 LASERLIGHT 17421 & 17422

These two CDs are reissues of the EUROPE 1 (TREMA) CDs.

On the previous CDs, three themes were mistitled (Broadway / Moten Swing, Spring is Sprung / Piano Blues, Utter Chaos / Concert End). On these CDs only Broadway is always mistitled.

4. Gerry Mulligan on DEFINITIVE Records

Two albums have been recently reissued. They cover the 1950-1952 period. The recordings made during these years aren't protected by the law. So Definitive Records is free to issue these Mulligan recordings.

a. The first CD is titled "Gerry Mulligan, complete 1950-1952 Prestige studio recordings" / Definitive Records 11227. We find on this CD, the Chubby Jackson session recorded the March 15, 1950 and also the famous Prestige album Mulligan plays Mulligan, recorded in august 1951. To complete the CD, Definitive Records has added the Gerry Mulligan Trio, recorded by Pacific Jazz in June 10, 1952.

The composition of this CD is very interesting, we find Gerry Mulligan with two medium - large orchestra. In one , he is a major player and in the second , this is the leader.

b. The second CD is titled "Chet Baker, Complete 1952 Fantasy & Pacific Jazz Sessions" / Definitive Records 11233. This CD covers the following sessions : July 9, August 16, September, October 15-16 1952.

I strongly disagree with such a title ! One of the greater Mulligan combos released under the name of his sideman. Respect the Mulligan works like the Chet Baker ones !

Definitive Records likes these wrong titles, they have recently issued a Dave Brubeck Quartet, recorded at Storyville under the Paul Desmond name !!

1. Trilogy Big Band

Sea Breeze CD 2059
Recorded in 1994, this big band album features the famous Mulligan song "Night Lights" (5mn06s)

The musicians are : Dave Aaberg (tp,flh), Bob Harvey (tp, flh), Stan Kessler (tp), Al Pearson (tp, flh), Jay Sollenberger (tp, flh), Gary Richmond (tp, flh, leader), Karl Sievers (tp) Jim Cann (tb), Earlie Braggs (tb), John Eager (tb,arranger), Bob Koester (tb, btb), Don Strom (tb) Greg Briggs (fl,English horn, oboe, as, ss), Billy Crain (ts, leader), Doug Talley (cl, as,ss), Todd Wilkinson (ts), Steve Herold (cl, bcl, bs, arranger) Tim Brewer (b), James Jeffley (b), Gerg Whitfield (b), Wayne Hawkins (p, keyb), Tom Morgan (d, perc) Don Menza, Chuck Tumlinson, Brett Zvacek (arranger)

2. In Sync : Projazz Sampler # 2

Pro Arte CDJ 599
Ronnie Cuber did not play "K4 Pacific" as I believed. This one is the Houston symphony take (7mn22s) recorded in 1987 and performed by Gerry Mulligan

3. Don Doane and the Super Senior Sextet : Live on Maine Public Radio

Invisible Music CD
Don Doane is a trombone player and leads a sextet composed by Ralph Norris, Joe Laflamme (sax), Gerry Wright (p), Al Doane (b), Paul Jensen (d).

He played "Line for Lyons" and the interpretation recalls the 1974 Mulligan / Chet Baker Carnegie Hall concert.

4. Marty & Elayne : Jazz Stars Inc

Enterprise Records CD
Marty & Elayne Roberts offers us a very nice album. The songbook is shared between standards and originals. Many songs are little pieces of 2-3 minutes. One of them is a medley based on Hali's Theme (an Elayne's theme) and Elevation (the more boppish Mulligan's composition). During Hali's Theme, the tenor saxophone solo is played by Med Flory

5.Jean-Pierre Gebler and the Belgian All Stars : Meggie

GAM Records CD
The Gotha of the Belgian Jazzmen is found on this album of the baritone saxophonist Jean-Pierre GEBLER, Steve Houben (as, fl), Gino Lattuca (tp, Flh), Fabrice Alleman (ts,ss), Phil Abraham (tb), Jacques Pirotton (g), Michel Herr (p), Sal La Rocca (b), Bruno Castellucci (d).

Jean Pierre gebler's daughter, Mat Cuppers-Gebler (p) , only 9 years old, plays piano solo on track # 11 (Ornette Coleman's "Turnaround").

This album is based on many standards. Among them there is JERU of Gerry Mulligan. There is also two Belgian originals : "Thinking of you" of Michel Herr and "MEGGIE" of Jean-Pierre Gebler.

This album was recorded in September-october 2001, and released December 2001

In the beautiful booklet are many nice photographies covering the whole career of J P Gebler. He met, Chet Baker, Paul Gonsalves, Dexter Gordon, Red Rodney.

In 1966, he met Gerry Mulligan at the Luisiana Club in Cascais, Portugal, these two baritone saxophonists played with a portugese flutist.

1. September 11th, 2002 TRIBUTE TO MULLIGAN in ROMA and CAPRI (Italy).

In Capri on Friday September 6th, Franca Mulligan met Nicola Spinosa, Cultural Minister of the Arts in Rome, director of four museums in Naples and the Certosa monastery in Capri. They spoke about the permanent exhibit of the Gerry Mulligan Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington,D.C.

Inspired that Gerry Mulligan and George Gershwin are the only two musicians who have permanent exhibits at the Library of Congress, Mr. Spinosa decided to commemorate the tragedy of September 11th with their music.

The question was, would it be possible to put something together in such a short time, and over a weekend? With CDs, photographs, and other material that Franca Mulligan could provide, he felt it could be done.

Gerry's music was played in all the museums throughout the day, along with "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin, and in addition in the main museum, Capodimonte, film clips from the CD Rom "Gerry Mulligan Legacy" were projected onto a large screen.
At noon there was a moment of silence, followed by "Oh Great Spirit", the poem written by the American Indian, Chief Yellow Lark, to which Gerry wrote the music, from the "Legacy" CD. The Italian translation of the poem was read by the actor, Fabio Cocifoglia, accompanied by the classical baritone saxophonist, Salvatore Marchese, playing Gerry's music. The audience, mainly tourists, were very moved.
Posters with Gerry's photographs, music, and lyrics from his 1996 Memorial Service in New York were displayed, including Gerry's thoughts on life from a 1990 interview in Verona.

2. MULLIGAN TRIBUTE BAND

BINGHAMPTON UNIVERSITY, State of New York, September 12, 2002

A performance of the Mulligan Tribute Band with Ron Vincent, Dean Johnson, Bill Mays and Allan Chase at the Anderson Center Concert Theater, the friday September 12, 2002 , 8.00 pm.

Allan Chase has recorded with Rashied Ali, John McNeil, Gunther Schuller and Stanley Cowell, Andrew Cyrille, John Zorn, Joanne Brackeen.

Incredible an avant-garde musician in the Mulligan place

High school and college students were invited to a free jazz clinic with the Mulligan Tribute Band at 4.00 pm

3. Artistry with everything : Stan Kenton by Steve Voce

This very interesting review appeared in Jazz Journal International in 1987. This piece was based on a discussion panel at the Kenton Symposium "Viva Kenton" in New 1987. The speakers are Kenton alumni, Bob Burgess, Charlie Mariano, Bill Perkins, Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Jiggs Whigham and John Worster. Along this 9 pages document, they sometimes spoke of the Mulligan arrangements.

Bob Burgess spoke, "The things Gerry Mulligan wrote were really a joy to play. Bill Holman and I were room mates at the time, and he used to go back home every night and to study the scores. All of a sudden the scores just started pouring from Bill. "Limelight" was one of my favourites."

Later famous tenor saxophonist Bill Perkins said : "I remember my first night very well. It was right after the bus accident that he had in '53 so it was starting cold for me. I flew out to Chicago and waddled out like a mole on the stage with the lights in my eyes, try to play a solo on "Youngblood".

Stan took drummer Frankie Capp on when Frank was 19; "I didn't have the all around experience and ability to hold that hand. Gerry Mulligan and Bill Holman charts were duck soup for me" said Frank Capp.

4. Gunnar Bergsten - Lillen Anderson Quartet : To Gerry Mulligan & Stan Getz

The 31 of January 2002 at 19.30 , a quartet lead by the baritone saxophonist Gunnar Bergsten played the music of Gerry Mulligan at the "Blue Bird Jazz Club" of Kristianstadt, Sweden. The quartet was composed by Lillen Andersson (ts), Hans Larsson (b), Uffe Flink (d).

The 5th of September 2002, this quartet performed at the Just Jazz Club at Rebro, Sweden.

Roma, Villa Celimontana
The 7-8-9 of august 2002, Enrico Rava had a white card at the Villa Celimontana, Roma. This event was a part of the "Dreams in Blues" Festival.

The August 7, Enrico Rava met great Italian pianists : Renato Sellani, Dado Moroni, and Stefano Bollani.

The August 8, Enrico invited Javier Girotto (sax), Ares Tavolazzi (b) and Fabrizio Sferra (d) to play Gerry Mulligan's music. At last, the August 9, this was the Enrico Rava Quintet concert featuring Gianluca Putrella (tb), S Bollani (p), Rosario Bonnacorso (b), Roberto Gatta (d)