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Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music is an intimate chronicle of Gerry Mulligan's life and career, told in his own words. This personal narrative reveals great insight into the musician's complex personality. He speaks freely about the important milestones in both his personal and professional life, bringing a new understanding to the man behind the music.
Gerry Mulligan was one of the most important figures in the history of jazz. He was extremely influential as both a composer/arranger and as an instrumentalist. His career spanned an amazing six decades, beginning in the 1940s and continuing up to his death in 1996. Within that time, he worked with almost every major jazz figure, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as his own illustrious groups that featured the likes of Chet Baker, Bob Brookmeyer, Art Farmer, and Chico Hamilton.
As a composer, his music was distinct and original. His melodies were masterpieces, logically structured and filled with wit and humor. As an arranger, his linear approach and clever use of counterpoint helped define a new standard for modern jazz orchestration. As an instrumentalist, he is the most significant baritone saxophonist in the history of jazz. Gerry Mulligan single-handedly established the baritone saxophone as a solo voice. As one of the great jazz innovators, his writing and playing influenced entire stylistic movements, including cool jazz and bossa nova. This is his story, the way he wanted it told.
Gerry Mulligan was one of the most important figures in the history of jazz. He was extremely influential as both a composer/arranger and as an instrumentalist. His career spanned an amazing six decades, beginning in the 1940s and continuing up to his death in 1996. Within that time, he worked with almost every major jazz figure, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as his own illustrious groups that featured the likes of Chet Baker, Bob Brookmeyer, Art Farmer, and Chico Hamilton.
As a composer, his music was distinct and original. His melodies were masterpieces, logically structured and filled with wit and humor. As an arranger, his linear approach and clever use of counterpoint helped define a new standard for modern jazz orchestration. As an instrumentalist, he is the most significant baritone saxophonist in the history of jazz. Gerry Mulligan single-handedly established the baritone saxophone as a solo voice. As one of the great jazz innovators, his writing and playing influenced entire stylistic movements, including cool jazz and bossa nova. This is his story, the way he wanted it told.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Preface
- 1 One to Ten in Ohio
- 2 Ohio Traveler
- 3 On the Road with Tommy Tucker
- 4 On the Air with Elliot Lawrence
- 5 âDisc Jockey Jumpâ
- 6 Claude and Gil
- 7 The Birth of the Cool
- 8 Utter Chaos: Heroin and Turmoil
- 9 Gail Madden and Creative Research
- 10 Leavinâ Town: New York to Los Angeles
- 11 âYoung Bloodâ: Writing for Stan Kenton
- 12 The Pianoless Quartet
- 13 Adventures on the West Coast
- 14 The Tentet: Further Explorations with the Birth of the Cool
- 15 The Sheriffâs Honor Farm and Goodbye Chet
- 16 âWalking Shoesâ: Leaving Hollywood
- 17 Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
- 18 Addiction and Treatment
- 19 1957â1959: A Hectic Schedule
- 20 Alec Wilder and the Algonquin Hotel
- 21 Subterranean Blues: Back to Hollywood
- 22 The Concert Jazz Band
- 23 Theme for Jobim
- 24 Holliday with Mulligan
- 25 Song for an Unfinished Woman
- 26 Itâs Sandy at the Beach
- 27 Social and Political Changes in the 1960s
- 28 Compadres: The Saxophonist Who Came to Dinner
- 29 The Age of Steam and Meeting Franca
- 30 Happy Birthday 1974
- 31 Reunion with Chet, La Menace, and Goodbye Charlie
- 32 Ătude for Franca
- 33 âEntente for Baritone Saxophone and Orchestraâ
- 34 âBright Angel Fallsâ
- 35 Music, Freedom, and Race
- 36 The Quartet