"Jeru" is a nickname Miles Davis came up with for baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan in the late 1940s when they were rehearsing the Miles Davis Nonet. The recordings they made between 1949 and 1950 would eventually wind up on a Capitol compilation album entitled Birth of the Cool.
Jeru is also the title of an album that Mulligan recorded for Columbia in June 1962. Here's the personnel: Gerry Mulligan (bar), Tommy Flanagan (p), Ben Tucker (b), Dave Bailey (d) and Alec Dorsey (cga).
The tracks are...
Here's Gerry Mulligan's Jeru, without the interruption of ads...
Jeru is also the title of an album that Mulligan recorded for Columbia in June 1962. Here's the personnel: Gerry Mulligan (bar), Tommy Flanagan (p), Ben Tucker (b), Dave Bailey (d) and Alec Dorsey (cga).
The tracks are...
- Capricious (Billy Taylor)
- Here I'll Stay (Kurt Weill, Alan Jay Lerner)
- Inside Impromptu (Taylor)
- You've Come Home (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)
- Get Out of Town (Cole Porter)
- Blue Boy (Gerry Mulligan)
- Lonely Town (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green)
Here's Gerry Mulligan's Jeru, without the interruption of ads...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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