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Mulliganesque An All Star Tribute to and His Musical Legacy

18 Concerts, rare films & special presentations Featuring • Scott Robinson • Bobby Shew • Scott Whitfield Michael Berkowitz • Andy Martin • Roger Neumann • Adam Schroeder Carl Saunders • Bob Efford • Doug Webb • Pinky Winters • Ron Stout & many more! October 27-30, 2017 Tickets 562-200-5477 Four Points by Sheraton at LAX 9750 Airport Boulevard www.lajazzinstitute.org Los Angeles, California 90045 $20 plays ctober 27 ctober e O 1-2pm • 1-2pm $30 nc e riday, riday, rrangements v F A

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A M history of wit and define to approach masterpieces, PRESENTATION Friday, October 27 • 2:30-3:30pm • $10 CONCERT Friday, October 27 • 9 -10pm • $20 San San Diego Room California Ballroom 1 Disc Jockey Jump 4 Gerry Mulligan & The Gene Krupa Orchestra Mullenium Presented by Michael Berkowitz After fine-tuning his craft with Elliot Lawrence, Mulligan became an arranger and Themes Written for some time saxophonist for Gene Krupa. It was with Krupa that he first started to gain national prominence with his of and his the Gerry Mulligan Tentet original Disc Jockey Jump. Michael Berkowitz, leader of the current Gene Krupa After the , Gerry formed a mid size ensemble of his own. Orchestra, discusses Gerry Mulligans time with the band and his musical contributions. They used to rehearse in Central Park until would run them off. The ensemble made one album for Prestige in 1951.

CONCERT Friday, October 27 • 4-5pm • $20 California Ballroom Saturday, October 28

2 FILM Saturday, October 28 • 10:30-11:30am • $10 Godchild San Diego Room Gerry Mulligan’s for 2 Swinghouse The Claude Thornhill Orchestra Rare Films from the Los Angeles Jazz Institute Archive including Gerry Mulligan in a variety of settings including an All Star Big Band appearance on Camera 3, The Timex Jazz Show, , After Krupa, Gerry Mulligan joined Claude Thornhill’s arranging The , an appearance in Rome, and more. staff which included . Evans became an important mentor and Gerry contributed many arrangements to the CONCERT Saturday, October 28 • 1-2pm • $20 Thornhill book. Unfortunately not many were recorded but this California Ballroom concert will feature a wide variety of the Mulligan-Thornhill charts including such titles as Jeru, Joost at the Roost, Brew’s Tune, Broadway, Elevation and many more. Another unique 5 Youngblood concert not to be missed. Gerry Mulligan’s Compositions and Arrangements for The Orchestra CONCERT Friday, October 27 • 7:30-8:30pm • $20 All-Star Big Band featuring Stan Kenton Alumni California Ballroom Directed by Carl Saunders In late 1951 Gerry Mulligan hitchhiked from New York to Los 3 Angeles with the promise of work writing for Stan Kenton. Once in Jeru L.A. Kenton commissioned a number of dance arrangements as well as a few originals. This concert features all the music that Gerry The Original Arrangements wrote for Kenton including classics such as Swinghouse, from the legendary Youngblood, Limelight, Walking Shoes, and more. Birth of the Cool PRESENTATION Saturday, October 28 • 2:30-3:30pm • $10 Featuring Bobby Shew San Diego Room Gerry Mulligan was one of several young arrangers that began hanging out at Gil Evans apartment in New York. Together they conceived of an ensemble 2 Gerry Mulligan on the West Coast approach modeled after the Thornhill Orchestra. was part of the group and became the Presented by Ken Poston lead voice of the ensemble. Gil Evans, Once in Los Angeles Gerry Mulligan started sitting in on as many jam and Johnny Carisi all contributed but Gerry wrote sessions as possible including The Showtime, The Lighthouse, The the bulk of the arrangements that were premiered at a two week engagement at The . The Tradewinds, and . Ken Poston traces Gerry’s time in Los Angeles Mulligan arrangements are presented here in their entirety. including photos, memorabilia and rare unheard recordings. Saturday, October 28 • 4-5:30pm • $20 CONCERT California Ballroom Sunday, October 29 6 FILM Sunday, October 29 • 9-10am • $10 Walking Shoes San Diego Room Music of the Gerry Mulligan 3 News from Blueport -less Quartet with Rare Films from the Los Angeles Jazz Institute Archive including clips of Gerry Mulligan’s Sextet, Concert Jazz Band The Doug Webb-Ron Stout Quartet and appearances on feature films and various televisions programs. The jam sessions at The Haig led to an offer to work the off night with his own group. The Haig was so small that the piano was put in storage while ’s Trio headlined. This led to the CONCERT Sunday, October 29 • 10:30am -1pm formation of the piano-less quartet which introduced Chet Baker California Ballroom and created one of the most important jazz groups of all time. The Pacific Jazz record company was formed to record the group and Optional Sunday Brunch (not included in full registration) was born. 9 $100 concerts with Brunch • $75 concerts only CONCERT Saturday, October 28 • 7:30-8:30pm • $20 Musical Tributes to Gerry Mulligan by two of his California Ballroom closest friends and collaborators The Bill Holman Band performing 7 “The Missing Man” Plus Westwood The L.A. Jazz Orchestra performing Walk Bob ’s “Celebration” Music of Gerry Mulligan’s Brookmeyer and Holman both wrote extended works in tribute to Gerry Mulligan. Brookmeyer’s piece “Celebration” was actually written for Gerry as a featured West Coast Tentet soloist while Holman’s work was commissioned as a tribute after Featuring Bob Efford and Bobby Shew Mulligan’s death. Hearing both works back to back promises to be a very Gerry wanted to continue exploring the concepts that had special musical event.

been created with the Birth of the Cool Ensemble. The Sapsed Gordon Photo: Tentet did one live performance and one record date. Bob Efford and Bobby Shew headline an all-star tenet to PRESENTATION Sunday, October 29 • 1:30-2:30pm • $10 perform the original charts. San Diego Room CONCERT Saturday, October 28 3 Bill Holman Remembers Gerry Mulligan 9-10pm • $20 Bill Holman with Kirk Silsbee California Ballroom 8 CONCERT Sunday, October 29 • 3-4pm • $20 California Ballroom Open Country 10 Western eunion Music of the Gerry MulliganR Sextet The Gerry Mulligan- Collaborations Featuring Scott Robinson, Bobby Shew, Featuring The Scott Whitfield Quartet Andy Martin, and Roger Neumann After Gerry and Chet went their separate ways, Gerry went back to the east coast and formed a In the mid Gerry Mulligan decided he wanted a four horn new quartet with Bob Brookmeyer replacing Chet. Brookmeyer and Mulligan also had a great front line and formed a sextet which became another of his classic groups. musical rapport and remained close musical companions from that point on. This concert features Mulligan and Brookmeyer both wrote for the group with others such as Gil Evans also contributing. music from the Mulligan-Brookmeyer Quartet. This concert features many of the original sextet arrangements. CONCERT Sunday, October 29 • 4:30-5:30pm • $20 CONCERT Monday, October 30 • 11am-12noon • $10 California Ballroom California Ballroom 11 Four 13 Suite for and One Baritone Saxophone More and Orchestra The Gerry Mulligan Songbook CSULB Concert Jazz Orchestra Featuring The Roger Neumann Octet The orchestra will perform rarely heard Gerry Mulligan big band works The music that will be presented at this concert was done including music from a 1957 uncompleted Columbia date as well as for a recording date in 1958. The concept was to feature a Suite for Bari Sax and Orchestra, a collaboration by Gerry Mulligan and saxophone section playing arrangements of well know Bill Holman written for Stan Kenton’s Neophonic Orchestra. Mulligan songs. Bill Holman did the arrangements making this one of their earliest collaborations.

CONCERT Monday, October 30 CONCERT Sunday, October 29 • 7:30-10pm • $45 1:30-2:30pm • $20 12 California Ballroom 14 California Ballroom Summer’s Over The Songs of Gerry Mulligan and Featuring Pinky Winters Gerry Mulligan and Judy Holliday collaborated on a number of songs that have rarely been heard. This is a very special concert featuring Pinky Winters singing the Holliday-Mulligan Songbook. on Day, ctober 30 M O PRESENTATION Monday, October 30 • 2:45-3:45pm • $10 FILM Monday, October 30 San Diego Room 9:30-10:30am • $10 San Diego Room 4 Gerry Mulligan’s Influence 4 Little Big Horn Panelists: Scott Robinson, Adam Schroeder, Bob Efford Rare Films from the Los Angeles Jazz Institute Archive Moderator: including Gerry Mulligan in a Sanford Josephson, variety of film appearances author of Jeru’s Journey ranging from the early 1960s through the 1990s. CONCERT Monday, October 30 • 4-5pm • $20 California Ballroom Order Form 15 Individual Tickets The Age If you are not attending all four days, you may purchase tickets for individual events below. Thursday • October 26, 2017 Sunday • October 29, 2017 of Steam Film 3 New from Blueport $10.00_____ Pre-Festival Event: I Want to Live $30.00_____ Featuring Adam Schroeder Sunday Brunch Holman-Brookmeyer Friday • October 27, 2017 Concert 9 with Sunday Brunch $100.00____ After five years of keeping a low profile Gerry Mulligan Concert 9 Concerts Only $75.00_____ made a comeback of sorts with the 1971 album The Age Film 1 How High the Moon $10.00_____ Presentation 3 Bill Holman $10.00_____ of Steam. It features a number of newly written Mulligan Concert 1 Elliot Lawrence $20.00_____ originals including K-4 Pacific. Concert 10 Western Reunion $20.00_____ Presentation 1 Disc Jockey Jump $10.00_____ Concert 11 Four and One More $20.00_____ CONCERT Monday, October 30 • 7-8pm • $20 Concert 2 Claude Thornhill $20.00_____ Concert 12 Concert Jazz Band $45.00_____ Concert 3 Birth of the Cool $20.00_____ California Ballroom Monday • October 30, 2017 6 Concert 4 East Coast Tentet $20.00_____ Film 4 Little Big Horn $10.00_____ 1 Concert 13 CSULB $10.00_____ Walk on the Water Saturday • October 28, 2017 Concert 14 Summers Over $20.00_____ Film 2 Swinghouse $10.00_____ The Gerry Mulligan Presentation 4 Mulligan Influence $10.00_____ Big Band of the 1980s Concert 5 Stan Kenton $20.00_____ Concert 15 Age of Steam $20.00_____ Featuring Scott Robinson Presentation 2 California Concerts $10.00_____ Concert 16 Walk on the Water $20.00_____ At the beginning of the decade Gerry unveiled Concert 6 Piano-less Quartet $20.00_____ Concert 17 Baritone Summit $20.00_____ his updated Concert Jazz Band that toured extensively and recorded one album. Whereas Concert 7 West Coast Tentet $20.00_____ Platinum Registration $475.00_____ the original Concert Jazz Band didn’t feature Concert 8 Mulligan-Brookmeyer $20.00_____ Gold Registration $450.00_____ many Mulligan arrangements, this new version was mostly Mulligan originals. Service Fee $3.00_____ GRAND TOTAL $______CONCERT Monday, October 30 • 8:30pm • $20 California Ballroom MAIL COMPLETED FORMS TO: Or use your credit card to order by phone at 1-562-200-5477. LOS ANGELES JAZZ INSTITUTE 17 P.O BOX 8038 LONG BEACH, CA 90808-0038

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Phone (area code) Email Address Baritone Summit o o o o Scott Robinson, Adam Schroeder, Doug Webb, & Bob Efford Throughout Gerry’s career he loved sitting in with other musicians. Gerry was infamous for Card # exp. date walking on stage at jazz festivals and sitting in with musicians from all eras of jazz. Mulliganesque concludes appropriately with several of the worlds elite baritone saxophonists coming together in tribute to a true jazz giant. Signature PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE • NO REFUNDS Photo of Bob Efford: Gordon Sapsed Gordon Photo of Bob Efford: