Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
1955 studio album by Gerry Mulligan
Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet Released 1955 Recorded September 21, and October 22 & 31, 1955New York City Genre Jazz Length 44 :18 Label EmArcy
Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet album led by American jazz baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan featuring tracks recorded in 1955 and released on the EmArcy label.[ 1]
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, calling it "Fun swinging music that is still quite accessible".[ 2]
Track listing
All compositions by Gerry Mulligan except as indicated
"Mud Bug" (Jerry Lloyd) - 5:03
"Sweet and Lovely " (Gus Arnheim , Harry Tobias , Jules LeMare ) - 2:40
"Apple Core" - 5:23
"Nights on the Turntable" - 4:33
"Broadway" (Billy Byrd, Teddy McRae , Henri Woode ) - 6:31
"Everything Happens to Me " (Matt Dennis , Tom Adair ) - 5:18
"The Lady Is a Tramp " (Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ) - 5:00
"Bernie's Tune" (Bernie Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller ) - 6:37 Recorded in New York City on September 21, (tracks 1 & 8), October 22 (tracks 2 & 3) and October 31 (tracks 4-7), 1955
Personnel
References
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release. Some of the titles have been shortened.
Albums
Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet Paris Concert Bob Brookmeyer , 1954)California Concerts Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet Mainstream of Jazz At Storyville The Teddy Wilson Trio & Jazz Giants '58 Harry Edison , Stan Getz , 1958)Mulligan Meets Monk Thelonious Monk , 1957)Blues in Time Paul Desmond , 1957)Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz Jazz Concerto Grosso The Gerry Mulligan Songbook Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan! What Is There to Say? Meets Johnny Hodges Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster The Concert Jazz Band The Concert Jazz Band on Tour The Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard Holliday with Mulligan Judy Holliday , 1961)Presents a Concert in Jazz The Gerry Mulligan Quartet Jeru Two of a Mind Spring Is Sprung Gerry Mulligan '63 Night Lights Butterfly with Hiccups If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! Feelin' Good Something Borrowed - Something Blue Summit Astor Piazzolla , 1974)Walk on the Water WithChet WithDave With Soundtracks
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As
The Brothers Stan Getz , 1949–52)Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims Tonite's Music Today Bob Brookmeyer , 1956)Whooeeee Zoot! Locking Horns Joe Newman , 1957)Stretching Out Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note Phil Woods , 1959)Down Home Two Jims and Zoot Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall , 1964)Inter-Action Sonny Stitt , 1965)Waiting Game The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World Nirvana Bucky Pizzarelli , Buddy Rich , 1974)Basie & Zoot Count Basie , 1975)The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975)Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , 1975)Soprano Sax Hawthorne Nights If I'm Lucky Jimmy Rowles , 1977)For Lady Day Warm Tenor Jimmy Rowles , 1979)The Sweetest Sounds Rune Gustafsson , 1979)Just Friends Harry Edison , 1980)Art 'n' Zoot Art Pepper , 1981) RecordingsAl Cohn
From A to...Z The Sax Section Tenor Conclave Hank Mobley , John Coltrane , 1957)The Four Brothers... Together Again! Herbie Steward , Serge Chaloff , 1957)Al and Zoot Blues and Haikus Jack Kerouac , 1959)SteveIreneo! Irene Kral , Steve Allen , 1959)Son of Drum Suite You 'n' Me Either Way Jazz Mission to Moscow Body and Soul Motoring Along WithQuincy WithGerry With
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus Encounter! Pepper Adams , 1968)Trigger Happy! East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott , 1956)Chet Baker & Strings Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe The Bosses "Big Joe" Turner , 1973)Louis Bellson Quintet The Genius of Ray Charles Jazz Is Universal Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961)Chris Connor The Book Cooks Booker Ervin , 1960)Loose Blues Bill Evans , 1962)The Aztec Suite Art Farmer , 1959)South American Cookin' Curtis Fuller , 1961)Creole Cookin' Bobby Hackett , 1967)The Hawk in Hi Fi Coleman Hawkins , 1956)Portraits on Standards Stan Kenton , 1953)The Kenton Era The Manhattan Transfer Profiles Gary McFarland , 1966)Something to Swing About Carmen McRae , 1959)Ms. Jazz Metronome All-Stars 1956 The Complete Town Hall Concert Charles Mingus , 1962)Arranged by Montrose Jack Montrose , 1954)Encyclopedia of Jazz Oliver Nelson , 1966)The Sound of Feeling Jazzhattan Suite All the Sad Young Men Anita O'Day , 1962)Transition Lionel Hampton , 1974)Shorty Rogers Courts the Count Samba Para Dos Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)Moonlight in Vermont Johnny Smith , 1952)Phoebe Snow Broadway Soul Sonny Stitt , 1965)Vaughan and Violins Sarah Vaughan , 1958)The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More The Jazz Guitarist At Newport '63 Joe Williams , 1963)
