Brookmeyer's "Open Country"

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 24, 2009
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"Open Country" is one of Bob Brookmeyer's notable compositions from the 1950s. Here, he plays it with Gerry Mulligan in Mulligan's quartet. Wyatt “Bull" Ruther is the bassist, Gus Johnson the drummer.

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