Walkman Jazz

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  1. Bernie's Tune - Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
  2. Festive Minor notes - Night Lights
  3. The Lady Is A Tramp notes - Presenting Sextet
  4. Blue At The Roots - Mainstream
  5. Sweet And Lovely - Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
  6. Line For Lyons - Butterfly With Hiccups
  7. Demanton - Profile of Gerry Mulligan
  8. Spring Is Sprung - Something Borrowed, Something Blue
  9. Theme For Jobim - Butterfly With Hiccups
  10. Makin' Whoopee - Profile of Gerry Mulligan
  11. Westwood Walk - Profile of Gerry Mulligan
  12. Night Lights - Night Lights
Bob Brookmeyer, Dave Bailey, Jon Eardley, Peck Morrison, Zoot Sims

1, 5, 7, 11 = September 22, 1955
3 = September 21, 1955

Dave Bailey, Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Crow, Art Farmer, Jim Hall

2 & 12 = September, 1963
6 = June 25, 1964

4 & 10 = Dave Bailey, Bob Brookmeyer, Don Ferrara Peck Morrison, Zoot Sims

September 26, 1955

8 = Dave Bailey, Warren Bernhardt, Eddie Gomez

July 19, 1966

9 = Dave Bailey, Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Crow

June 25, 1964

 LINER NOTES

Although his former colleague Miles Davis is widely acknowledged to be the restless pathfinder of the post-Bird era, Gerry Mulligan (b. 1927) has explored various musical avenues with consistently intriguing results. For 35 years Mulligan's keen musical intelligence has informed ensembles small, medium, and large. A perennial poll winner on baritone saxophone, he is also an accomplished alto saxist and pianist (he is heard on both, in addition to baritone, in this collection); he is equally at home on clarinet and soprano sax. But for all his abilities as a soloist, Mulligan's greatest gifts are as a composer-arranger. There is the cool counterpoint of "Line For Lyons" (one of the most attractive tunes to emerge from West Coast Jazz, of which Mulligan was a prime mover); the airy swing of 'Bernie's Tune' and 'The Lady Is A Tramp" two of seven superb tracks by Mulligan's 1955 sextet, one of the best - and most underrated of all jazz groups); and the muted, after hours moods of 'Festive Minor", 'Theme For Jobim", and "Night Lights'. The simpatico supporting cast includes Bob Brookmeyer, Zoot Sims, Art Farmer, and Jim Hall. James Isaacs