1. Butterfly With Hiccups
2. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
3. Theme For Jobim
4. Old Devil Moon
5. The Ant Hill
6. Blues For Lynda
7. Line For Lyons
8. Crazy Day

 LINER NOTES

Being an owner of a Purple Tasmanian Owl and a Chameleon of varying hues, a butterfly with hiccups is nothing out of the ordinary to me. However, the fact that he flies with his wing a little lower than the right indicates that he had stopped off at a flower and sipped of its nectar. Also, if you will notice, his flight pattern is exclusively pre-occupied with purple flower touchdowns and an occasional foray into the dark blues. The dark blues is where he meets an orange and chartreuse bee who introduces him to a rather large neon-green praying mantis who immediately throws a scare into our butterfly thereby curing his hiccups but who turns out to be a harmless and even good-natured guy who besides happens to know a few guitar chords. As you can hear, the rest of the story concerns itself with an animated conversation between the three and after a very short debate on whether to or not, they are last seen heading back in the general direction of Frabjous's.**

*frabjous: distillate of the Frab.
**Frabjous's: the place where frab juice Is dispensed.

you'd be so nice to
come home to

Home is so nice to come to
Home is swingin'
Swingin' is home

Home is "Home-cookin"
"Home-cookin;" is blowin'
Blowin' is joy

Joy is sound
Sound is nice
Nice is paradise

Paradise is love
Love is you
You'd be so nice
to come home to...
and love.

theme for jobim

Jobim creates and inspires.
Jobim influences and affects.
Jobim is a trend, a fancy,
a reality.
The tributes begin.
This one is simple in statement.

I felt a tenderness and
compassion for this man,
recognizing at the same time
a simplicity of nature and a
free spirit. This is what the
theme conveyed to me
and if it is not honest,
then forsooth, Gerroo
pulleth our leg.

old devil moon

New incantations with burnished horns.
It's over four minutes of smooth
Deviled moon - but who's counting?
Interlacing galore, fun and games, nips
and tucks and the witching is happy.

I don't want to short-change you in
describing my feelings about the tone
but it's hard to give a first impression
on a tune which you're so familiar
and it's so pure Mulligan that my
primary, secondary and tertiary
feelings about it had to do with
Mulligan's handling, molding and
coddling of a tune that you know he
so well loves. But on the outside
assumption that some of you have
received some impression or picture
while listening, I would be most
happy to hear from you.

the ant hill

The Ant Hill is an
uncomplicated bit of
musical construction
inspired no doubt by a
group of ants known
personally by Gerry
Mulligan. Aside from
that, no further light
can be shed on this.

blues for lynda

In Blues For Lynda, Lynda turns
out to be a medium blues waltz with a
light-hearted spritely feeling that
gets everyone including the bass dancing. There's a child-like quality to these
blues that approaches an Alice In
Wonderland fantasy. No great causes
here, just sweets. It 'tastetes' good!

line for lyons

Line For Lyons, written several years ago for
Jimmy Lyons who in addition to being one of the
country's great jazz jockeys is also creator
and director of the Monterey Jazz Festival.
As with the person, there are many different attitudes and moods surrounding the music, this particular
"Line . . ." showing the gentle and soft-spoken
side of Lyons. As a matter of fact, to quote
Jimmy Lyons about "Line For Lyons," "It's a kinda
delightful tune that sorta makes you feel as if
you'd kinda like to hear that pleasant sound.
To tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind
hearing it again myself."

And as a matter of fact, I think you'll kinda
listen to it sorta more yourself kinda.

crazy day

The dexterity of Mulligan's arranging talent
and the fertility of the Brookmeyer imagination
are evident throughout the rest of the album
as well as in Crazy Day which has a bitterswee
quality. "C.D." is a fast-swinging bongo-infected
version of the standard with voices employed
most effectively. s you know, the tune which is
usually handled as a fuzzy soft kind of adult lullaby
is here given a sharp, bright, explosive treatment
with humor, spirit and a solid rhythm sound .
The funky touches are just pure gravy and the
sardonic bluesy licks are thrown in for freesies.*

*The foregoing description of Crazy Day is a lark on my part for those of you who have felt these liner notes should include a bit of the great American leveler known as Pop Art, Pop Jazz and our personal now dimension, Pop Liner Notes. The banal meatiness of the proceeding seems to satisfy the gnawing hunger of the liner-reader's eyeballs for the same old tired descriptive words, however, don't got me wrong, I love Hollywood and Crazy Day Is, after all, the essence of Mulligan's creed: "When you got the volume together, you need to have men who think alike, feel alike; each has to be prepared to play an individual part, a melody of his own that may be pulsating or may not be and that will compensate the other part."

Al Collins