If all Gerry Mulligan had composed and recorded was the song Night Lights, he'd be extraordinary. The impossibly beautiful and hypnotic ballad appeared on his 1963 album of the same name. To make the track even more compelling, Mulligan plays piano, not baritone saxophone, and he was accompanied by Art Farmer (flhrn), Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb), Jim Hall (g), Bill Crow (b) and Dave Bailey (d).
Here's Gerry Mulligan's Nigh Lights; do yourself a favor and set the clip to loop, so you can hear it over and over. You do this by putting your curser over the image of the video, right clicking and choosing “loop" at the top. This way, the song will start again immediately after it ends...
Here's Gerry Mulligan's Nigh Lights; do yourself a favor and set the clip to loop, so you can hear it over and over. You do this by putting your curser over the image of the video, right clicking and choosing “loop" at the top. This way, the song will start again immediately after it ends...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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