Gerry Mulligan Discography
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GERRY MULLIGAN DISCOGRAPHY GERRY MULLIGAN RECORDINGS, CONCERTS AND WHEREABOUTS by Gérard Dugelay, France and Kenneth Hallqvist, Sweden January 2011 Gerry Mulligan DISCOGRAPHY - Recordings, Concerts and Whereabouts by Gérard Dugelay & Kenneth Hallqvist - page No. 1 PREFACE BY GERARD DUGELAY I fell in love when I was younger I was a young jazz fan, when I discovered the music of Gerry Mulligan through a birthday gift from my father. This album was “Gerry Mulligan & Astor Piazzolla”. But it was through “Song for Strayhorn” (Carnegie Hall concert CTI album) I fell in love with the music of Gerry Mulligan. My impressions were: “How great this man is to be able to compose so nicely!, to improvise so marvellously! and to give us such feelings!” Step by step my interest for the music increased I bought regularly his albums and I became crazy from the Concert Jazz Band LPs. Then I appreciated the pianoless Quartets with Bob Brookmeyer (The Pleyel Concerts, which are easily available in France) and with Chet Baker. Just married with Danielle, I spent some days of our honey moon at Antwerp (Belgium) and I had the chance to see the Gerry Mulligan Orchestra in concert. After the concert my wife said: “During some songs I had lost you, you were with the music of Gerry Mulligan!!!” During these 30 years of travel in the music of Jeru, I bought many bootleg albums. One was very important, because it gave me a new direction in my passion: the discographical part. This was the album “Gerry Mulligan – Vol. 2, Live in Stockholm, May 1957”. This LP was composed of the end of the Stockholm 1957 concert and also of three songs recorded live in 1966. To “respect “ the 20 years legal delay to issue this recording in Italy, they changed the date of recording in 1955!!! So Eddie Gomez was only 11 years old!!! I was shocked by this disrespect about the music of Gerry Mulligan and also with the purchasers. In the late 80’s I discovered a club of jazz fans, the “World Jazz Network”. Through this channel I contacted many great admirers of jazz and particularly of Gerry Mulligan. With their help and friendship, my Mulligan collection increased regularly with a lot of radio broadcasts and TV telecasts. Thank you so much all of my friends. In 1988, I went to Den Haag (NL) to watch for the second time the Gerry Mulligan Orchestra during the North Sea Jazz Festival. With this concert I started a long series of attending Mulligan concerts. Until the Frankfurt concert in May 1995 I experienced 14 great moments with the music of Gerry Mulligan. Each time a great story to tell!! Newsletter and discography A new and important step was my decision in 1993 to write a Newsletter about Gerry Mulligan. To share my passion and my discoveries with other Mulligan admirers was necessary. With the help of my friend Klaus G. Fisher (a specialist of the music of Dave Brubeck) I also started to write a Mulligan discography-itinerary on my computer. A work improved by my Swedish friend Kenneth Hallqvist (a specialist of the albums of Gerry Mulligan), who has put a lot of work into the discographical part!! Gerry Mulligan DISCOGRAPHY - Recordings, Concerts and Whereabouts by Gérard Dugelay & Kenneth Hallqvist - page No. 2 Gerry Mulligan was a composer, an arranger, a band leader and an appreciated soloist and his presence is on a lot of LPs and CDs!! During 40 years of Festivals (from Paris 1954 to Newport 1995) and several TV-shows Gerry Mulligan played with the greatest musicians of the history of jazz. He was unique!! Thanks To finish this presentation, I would like to thank everybody for their help and kindness: my wife, my family, my jazz friends all over the world and Franca R. Mulligan, Your friendship is the air I breathe!! My thoughts go to Gerry Mulligan. Gérard Dugelay 14 Avenue Andre Malraux F-57000 METZ France e-mail: [email protected] PREFACE BY KENNETH HALLQVIST How my love to Gerry commenced As a young Swede (at the age of 13-14, i.e. 1958-1959), I went by the ferry to the capital of Denmark - Copenhagen - and bought my first recording with Gerry Mulligan (not having the slightest idea about who he was or what type of music he played) and it was the Fontana LP # 683 255 JCL: “RELAX! - GERRY MULLIGAN”. After listening to this fantastic LP over and over again, I was hooked on the music of Gerry. At that time I was playing the clarinet and Gerry got me to change into tenor sax and thereafter I got the possibility to purchase a baritone sax. I’m still a lousy jazz musician compared with Gerry and other baritone saxophone players, which I’ve learned to appreciate. To mention another of them - Bob Gordon - who passed away far too soon. I played my Mulligan records for everybody who wanted to listen and sometimes bored some of my friends, who didn’t have the same taste of music as I, because I also wanted them to love and understand the music of Gerry. I couldn’t understand if somebody didn’t feel the same exaltation as I, listening to the wonderful music Gerry created together with his fellow musicians. Gerry Mulligan DISCOGRAPHY - Recordings, Concerts and Whereabouts by Gérard Dugelay & Kenneth Hallqvist - page No. 3 Finding a true Mulligan friend The years pass quickly and looking back I have to admit, that Gerry has had a great influence on my life and the music I love. I’m really glad to have got the contact with Gérard Dugelay in the end of the last century. We have only met twice at his home in Metz, but I feel our watches are ticking at the same pace when we meet and it’s really thanks to Gerry, his music, compositions and arrangements. I live in a small village called Asmundtorp, just outside Landskrona (a town situated between Malmö and Helsingborg, just cross the Sound - Öresund - from Copenhagen). I’m married to a lovely wife and we have a nice grown-up daughter. As you understand, my greatest interest is to acquire music recorded by Gerry and I’ve had the joy of listening to him in concert only twice. The first time was at Sparta on November 9 ,1984 and the last time during his last concert in Sweden on April 26, 1995 at Mejeriet (the Dairy) also in Lund. This was a fantastic experience for me, as I got the opportunity to meet with Gerry and Franca back-stage. Creating a Gerry Mulligan discography In the 70’s I started to make notes of recordings made by Gerry and I’ve since then tried to improve the content of my private notes. Having compared works made by Gordon Jack, Jerome Klinkowitz, Arne Astrup and many others, I’ve tried to make a discography as complete as possible. With the additions from Gérard Dugelay, I hope, that the following “Gerry Mulligan Discography - Recordings, Concerts and Whereabouts” will be of great interest. I'm thankful for all comments and corrections, which can help improve this discography. Thanks I couldn’t agree more with what Gérard has written above and moreover as my last word, saying thank you to my wife Karin, for being kind enough to love me even though I’ve spent enormously many hours completing this discography during the last three decades. Kenneth Hallqvist Nissebovaegen 54 S-261 75 ASMUNDTORP Sweden e-mail: [email protected] Gerry Mulligan DISCOGRAPHY - Recordings, Concerts and Whereabouts by Gérard Dugelay & Kenneth Hallqvist - page No. 4 IKE CARPENTER BAND Gerry Mulligan (ts), personnel unknown New Kenmore Hotel, Albany, N.Y., 1945 Information available JAM SESSION WITH CHARLIE PARKER Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Charlie Parker (as), Gerry Mulligan (ts), personnel unknown Down Beat Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1945 Information available ELLIOT LAWRENCE AND HIS ORCHESTRA Gerry Mulligan, personnel unknown Academy of music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1945 Information available Gerry Mulligan DISCOGRAPHY - Recordings, Concerts and Whereabouts by Gérard Dugelay & Kenneth Hallqvist - page No. 5 ELLIOT LAWRENCE AND HIS ORCHESTRA Red Rodney, John Dee, Paul Cope (tp), Frank Rodowitz, Joe Verrechico, Herb Collins (tb), Ernie Cantonucci, Buddy Gentiles (as), Pete Sansoni, Mike Donio (ts), Gerry Mulligan (bars, arr*), Ernie Angelucci (frh), Elliot Lawrence (p, cond), Andy Riccardi (b), Max Spector (dm) Probably from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1945 Heart To Heart ° (2:08) Private recording Lawrence Leaps * (3:02/2:58) AFRS BMLP-733(ONS 733?), Big Band Archives LP-1219 Chloe (2:55/2:50) Big Band Archives LP-1219 The Song Is You * (2:45/2:41) AFRS BMLP-460,Big Band Archives LP-1219 How High The Moon * (3:25/3:20) Issues as last Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea * (3:11/3:05) Big Band Archives LP-1219 Listen To Lawrence * (3:33/3:25) AFRS BMLP-367,Big Band Archives LP-1219 The Night Is Young And You’re So Beautiful (3:33/3:25) Issues as last March from ’Carmen’ (2:52/2:46) Issues as last Someone To Watch Over Me (2:55/2:48) AFRS BMLP-524(564?),Big Band Archives LP-1219 Hand Me Five (3:24/3:17) Issues as last If You Are But A Dream (3:53/3:46) AFRS BMLP-346,Big Band Archives LP-1219 The Old Night Owl (3:01/2:55) Issues as last Notes: Has previously been noted as a radio broadcast from 'Tune Town Ballroom', St. Louis, Missouri, but this is probably incorrect.