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| + artist ....... Gerry Mulligan |
| + album ........ The Best Of The Gerry Mulligan Quartet With Chet Baker|
| + label ........ Blue Note |
| + cat .......... 95481 |
| + year ......... 1991 |
| + genre ........ Jazz |
| + source ....... CDDA |
| + quality ...... VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo |
| + release date . 10.02.2004 |
| + size ......... 47,9 MB |
| + link ......... http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=9675 |
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| 01.Bernie's Tune 02:53 |
| 02.Nights At The Turntable 02:54 |
| 03.Freeway 02:47 |
| 04.Soft Shoe 02:40 |
| 05.Walkin' Shoes 03:13 |
| 06.Makin' Whoopee 03:29 |
| 07.Carson City Stage 02:32 |
| 08.My Old Flame 03:15 |
| 09.Love Me Or Leave Me 02:45 |
| 10.Swinghouse 02:57 |
| 11.Jeru 02:32 |
| 12.Darn That Dream 03:51 |
| 13.I'm Beginning To See The Light 03:38 |
| 14.My Funny Valentine 05:20 |
| 15.Festive Minor 04:10 |
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| (t!) total 48:56 min |
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| The Best of Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker |
| Gerry Mulligan / Chet Baker | Blue Note Records |
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| If you only invest in one Mulligan/Baker album . . . |
| . . . this is THE one. |
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| Frankly, its hard to imagine a partnership of two individuals less |
| likely to succeed: Mulligan, New York-raised, formally trained, |
| tall, fair-haired, his theoreticians instincts already refined by |
| years in several influential late-40s big bands and a successful |
| collaboration with Gil Evans/Miles Davis; Baker, on the other |
| hand, a man who would come to be termed "jazzs dark angel," |
| southwest-born and bred, largely self-taught and instinctive in |
| his approach to music, a "problem child" virtually from birth. |
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| The traits they shared were largely negative: histories of drug |
| abuse and an inability to deal with their "inner demons," lousy |
| tempers, and an incredible talent for fatally sabotaging their |
| personal relationships, intellectual impatience versus an inbred |
| inferiority complex. Even their "instrumental philosophies" were |
| at variance; Mulligan was prone to treat his baritone sax almost |
| as a tenor -- or even alto -- in his approach, while Chet Baker |
| consistently seemed to eschew the arrogant brassiness of most |
| trumpeters of his (or, for that matter, the current) era. |
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| Try to imagine these guys "hanging out" together, or -- a bold |
| leap of imagination -- at a barbecue with their families of the |
| moment. Never mind; it never happened. |
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| What did happen -- thankfully -- is that, for eleven months in the |
| early 50s, playing night after night at The Haig in L.A., Gerry |
| Mulligan and Chet Baker found common cause -- a lingua franca -- |
| in the music they made together, and in the sound they helped to |
| develop (the so-called "West Coast" or "cool jazz" school), as |
| here memorialized in a selection of remasterings from original |
| Pacific Jazz 78 rpm singles. |
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| Theres a very obvious dynamic presented in the selections herein: |
| That, whatever their relationship may have otherwise been (and by |
| all accounts it was, to say the least, rancorous), as soon as they |
| hit the bandstand -- or the recording studio -- they gave |
| themselves over to the music and found themselves uncannily on the |
| same wavelength. The pull of this common wavelength, by the way, |
| is demonstrated in this collection by the inclusion of "Festive |
| Minor," which they performed together at an abortive reunion six |
| or so years after they had gone their separate ways; nonetheless, |
| it shows that they were still capable of finding that common |
| language. And celebrating together. |
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| If youre unfamiliar with the "Gerry Mulligan Quartet Featuring |
| Chet Baker" (as they were originally billed), particularly if your |
| interest was only recently sparked by a couple of selections from |
| "L.A. Confidential" (both of which --"The Lady Is A Tramp" and |
| "Makin Whoopee" -- are featured here), this is the CD to start |
| with. Your investments minimal, the rewards will be great. PLUS . |
| . . if you never go on to pick up the other two Mulligan/Baker CDs |
| currently available (although I suspect you will), youll still |
| have a solid understanding of their collaboration and its |
| contribution to jazz. |
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| Chet Baker - Trumpet, Performer |
| Henry Grimes - Bass |
| Chico Hamilton - Drums |
| Gerry Mulligan - Sax (Baritone), Performer |
| Dave Bailey - Drums |
| Larry Bunker - Drums |
| Carson Smith - Bass |
| Bobby Whitlock - Bass |
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