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Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk

Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk: Mulligan Meets Monk

by Francis Lo Kee
September 17, 2005

Mulligan and Monk: what is their common ground? Certainly not the “Cool School West Coast pianoless groups of Mulligan and Baker. Nor do you think of the Lester Young-influenced Mulligan in the same sphere (pun intended) as some of Monk's preeminent sax players, like Johnny Griffin or John Coltrane.Perhaps it is their mutual love ...

Mulligan Meets Monk

By Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. 'Round Midnight 2. Rhythm-A-Ning 3. Sweet and Lovely 4. Decidedly 5. Straight, No Chaser 6. I Mean You 7. Decidedly (alt. take) 8. Straight, No Chaser (alt. take) 9. I Mean You (alt. take) 10. I Mean You (alt. take).

Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk: Mulligan Meets Monk

by David Rickert
December 11, 2003

Mulligan Meets Monk captures one of the most improbable encounters in jazz, one artist the standard bearer for the conservative cool school, the other a peddler of a more liberal style of jazz. Both were mavericks in their own way, and there’s an interesting symmetry in their approaches: Mulligan exploring the freedom available without a piano, ...