";s:4:"text";s:8450:"The album Little Big Horn found Mulligan in a different musical environment, supported by performer, composer, and arranger Dave Grusin.”There’s a fraternity among arrangers,” said Mulligan, describing his friendship with Grusin. He made the following statement on the music of Gerry Mulligan: “Music is important to our lives, and can have a positive or negative effect, depending on our motivation, and the action of our mind. In 1991 the Concordia Orchestra premiered Momo's Clock, a work for orchestra (without saxophone solo) that was inspired by a book by German author Michael Ende. 1997 also saw the release of, among other recordings, Gerry Mulligan Quartet Zurich 1962, as part of the Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series, released by TCB Music, SA, and Gerry Mulligan: The Quartets, from the late fifties and early sixties, featuring Bob Brookmeyer and Art Farmer, released by Hindsight Records, Inc. His music was also featured in the films L.A. The film was sponsored by the Library of Congress via a grant from the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Fund and was produced by Gerry Mulligan Productions. Gerry was the youngest of four sons with George, Phil and Don preceding him. Photo by Milt Hinton.
In 1957, Mulligan and his wife, Arlyne Brown Mulligan (daughter of composer Lew Brown), had a son, Reed Brown Mulligan. Gerry’s autobiography, recorded on tape in 1995, will eventually be published in audio and book form. Miles was very enthusiastic and said to let him know when it was going to be. Publicity Listings “When you’re young and you have a vision, you have an incredible amount of guts,” Gerry explained, realizing that Warrington must have been amused by the high school kid’s display of determination.
In September 1951, Mulligan recorded the first album under his own name, Mulligan Plays Mulligan.
Gerry wrote beautiful music, very pure, which is a lasting and precious gift to the people of the world.”. Gerry’s last concerts were on board the SS Norway’s Caribbean cruise with his Quartet, on November 4 and 9, 1995. Photo by Caspri De Geus 1992. Information on the permanent exhibit of The Gerry Mulligan Collection can be found at the Library of Congress website. Bock along with Roy Harte would soon after, start the Pacific Jazz label and release Mulligan's records. The first recording of one of Mulligan’s appearances with a symphony orchestra occurred early in 1987.
Recognized as an important 20th century composer, arranger, saxophonist, and conductor, he has played a vital role in the history of modern jazz and contemporary music.
The quartet played at the third Paris Jazz Fair in 1954, with Red Mitchell on bass and Frank Isola on drums.
The permanent exhibit of the Gerry Mulligan Collection is open to the public. In addition to his three marriages, Mulligan was the long-term lover of actress Judy Holliday, an affair which began in 1958 and ended with her death. In 1987, Mulligan adapted K-4 Pacific (from his 1971 Age of Steam big band recording) for quartet with orchestra and performed it beside Entente with the Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv with Zubin Mehta conducting. It never hurts to have someone like him give you a shove when you’re young.”, Gerry outside of a TV studio in New York, 1957. Mulligan moved to New York City in January 1946 and joined the arranging staff on Gene Krupa's bebop-tinged band. Franca R. Mulligan, President of Mulligan Publishing Co., Inc., with the assistance of Cathie Phillips, who has been with the Mulligans for more than twenty years, will continue to manage the legacy of Gerry Mulligan’s music.
Our group would open the show, and after our bows, Gerry and I would return to the stage alone. In 1995, the Hal Leonard Corporation released the video tape The Gerry Mulligan Workshop – A Master Class on Jazz and Its Legendary Players. Official Sites. The band toured and recorded extensively through the end of 1964, ultimately producing five albums for Verve Records. Partly an attempt to revisit big band music in a smaller setting, the band varied in size and personnel, with the core group being six brass, five reeds (including Mulligan) and a pianoless two-piece rhythm section (though as in the earlier quartets Mulligan or Brookmeyer sometimes doubled on piano). The family's moves continued with stops in southern New Jersey (where Mulligan lived with his maternal grandmother), Chicago, Illinois, and Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Mulligan lived for three years and attended Catholic school. In 1987, Gerry Mulligan performed Entente in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Maestro Mehta and K-4 Pacific, his composition featuring the quartet with the orchestra. Throughout Mulligan's orchestral work and until the end of his life, Mulligan maintained an active career performing and recording jazz – usually with a quartet that included a piano. - IMDb Mini Biography By: d-mari@tc.umn.edu Spouse (3) The quartet, which featured Chet Baker on trumpet, Carson Smith on bass, and Chico Hamilton on drums, became a focal point of the West Coast Jazz movement, even though Mulligan had always maintained headquarters on the East Coast. Arrangements of Mulligan's work with Krupa include "Birdhouse", "Disc Jockey Jump" and an arrangement of "How High the Moon", quoting Charlie Parker's "Ornithology" as a countermelody. Thus when upon his release Mulligan attempted to rehire Baker, the trumpeter declined the offer for financial reasons. He was also (with Davis, Konitz and Barber) one of only four musicians who played on all the recordings. In 1951, he headed west in search of better opportunities, hitchhiking and playing his way across the United States. In November of 1984, Mulligan was awarded the prestigious Viotti Prize at a special presentation ceremony in Vercelli, Italy. Black musicians sometimes came through town, and because many motels would not take them, they often had to stay at homes within the black community. Later in 1994, Mulligan focused his attention on activities designed to further jazz education. From 1968 to 1972, Mulligan toured frequently with Dave Brubeck and appeared as a soloist on the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Brubeck’s oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness. | Contact, Prizewinners of the 2020 Gerry’s Jazz Challenge Announced. Mulligan was again the winner of the Downbeat International Critics and Readers Poll: Baritone Saxophonist of the Year, 1995.
Mulligan also performed as a soloist or sideman (often in festival settings) with a variety of late-1950s jazz artists: Paul Desmond, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Witherspoon, André Previn, Billie Holiday, Marian McPartland, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Manny Albam, Quincy Jones, Kai Winding, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck. Gerry Mulligan wrote and/or arranged six of the eleven tunes on the album. With his quartet, Mulligan often toured with Duke Ellington, whom he names as his favorite composer, and with whom he shared a passion for trains and railroads. Mulligan was the second jazz composer ever to be honored by the festival since it began over twenty years ago. Also in 1993, as in every year, Mulligan made several tours of Europe and appearances at Carnegie Hall. | Privacy
Other television appearances include a cable special with the Quartet for Jazz America, an appearance for the same producers with Dizzy Gillespie’s “Dream Band,” a program with Mel Torme for CBS, and a guest appearance on a Buddy Rich show. In the last week in December 1995, in Stamford, Connecticut, the project commenced with a number of demo singers and a film crew. Mulligan eventually began living with Evans, at the time that Evans' apartment on West 55th Street became a regular hangout for a number of jazz musicians working on creating a new jazz idiom. Little Big Horn was released in Italy in conjunction with the performance of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet at the Manzoni Theater in Milan. Mulligan resumed work with small groups in 1962 and appeared with other groups sporadically (notably in festival situations). While Tucker did not need an additional reedman, he was looking for an arranger and Mulligan was hired at $100 a week to do two or three arrangements a week (including all copying).