[Dixielandjazz] uiRe: Gerry Mulligan on clarinet (was Paul Desmond / Frankie Trumbauer / Dixieland)

[Ken Mathieson]

Hi Bill (honorary Paisley Buddy),

My curiosity is aroused! I'm going to have to seek out the tracks of him on 
clarinet and alto. I've got a bit of a curio involving Mulligan: he was on 
an Atlantic LP of the soundtrack music from a biopic about Brasilian soccer 
star Pele along with the band of Sergio Mendes. Pele wrote and sang 2 of the 
songs and I think it's a safe bet that he was a bit better at soccer than he 
was as a singer/songwriter. It could also be a great question for a pub 
Trivia Quiz: When did soccer star Pele and jazz star Gerry Mulligan play on 
the same side?

Mulligan's soprano playing is warm, fluent and very melodic with an 
attractive tone - one of the more appealing soprano players. He loved 
Brasilian music and made a fine CD with Brasilian singer Jane Duboc. I 
haven't heard it in years, but I think he played baritone and piano on it, 
and not soprano. I'll have to check out the YouTube link supplied by Steve: 
the prospect of Mulligan playing clarinet with Jobim sounds pretty good to 
me. Robert Calder kindly sent me a couple of mp3s of the 1963 Mulligan 
Concert Jazz Band on which he plays clarinet with a warm, slightly woolly 
tone and laid-back, but very melodic approach to phrasing which wouldn't be 
out place in a good Dixieland band. What a marvellously versatile musician 
he was!

Regards from a Paisley Buddy,

Ken Mathieson
www.classicjazzorchestra.org.uk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
To: "Ken Mathieson" <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 12:24 AM
Subject: Gerry Mulligan on clarinet (was Paul Desmond / Frankie Trumbauer /
Dixieland)


> Ken Mathieson wrote [in part]:
>> I'd have loved to hear Mulligan playing clarinet in a jam
>> session........ This is where Bill Haesler will probably list
>> umpteen recordings of Mulligan playing clarinet!
>
> Dear Ken,
> This is all I could find.
> And no, I do not have them.
> Kind regards,
> Bill
>
> "Feelin' Good". Gerry Mulligan Quintet & Strings.
> Gerry Mulligan (bar/cl-1) Pete Jolly (p/celeste) John Gray (g-1) or
> Jimmy Helms (g) Jimmy Bond (b) Hal Blaine (d) + 10 piece string
> section , Harry Bluestone (ldr,concertmaster) Julian Lee (arr,cond).
> Hollywood, CA, October 20, 21 & 22, 1965.
>     Love walked in (strings out, 1)
>     The lonely night [Night lights] (+, 1)
>     Not mine (1)
>  Limelight LM82030, LS86030, Trip Jazz TLP5593, Mercury (E)LML4020,
> Mercury MFY134518, (Eu)220.024LMY, Limelight (Jap)32JD-133 [CD]
>
> He also plays alto on:
> "Newport Jazz Festival All Stars July 1966".
> Ruby Braff (c) Bud Freeman (ts) Gerry Mulligan (as/bar) George Wein
> (p) Jack Lesberg (b) Buddy Rich (d)
> Live "Newport Jazz Festival", Newport, Rhode Island, July 1, 1966.
>     I can't give you anything but love
>     Yesterdays
>     Out of nowhere [Jeru] (rb,bf out,*)
> Issued on quite a few LPs and CDs.
>
> Other than that it is baritone sax.
> He also plays piano on a lot of sessions and recorded on soprano sax
> in the 80s.
>
>


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