Results for "Gerry Mulligan"

National Jazz Ensemble: Featuring Gerry Mulligan

by Jack Bowers
February 10, 2016

Any new CD whose cover proclaims “Featuring Gerry Mulligan" is guaranteed to turn heads, raise antennae and whip up interest. This one, on which Mulligan performs with the then-three-year-old National Jazz Ensemble, was recorded February 19, 1977, in a sold-out auditorium at the New School in New York City. In his liner notes, trumpeter David Berger ...

The Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble: Circulation: The Music of Gary McFarland

by Angelo Leonardi
January 28, 2016

Chi si ricorda di Gary McFarland? Ha attraversato gli anni sessanta come una meteora fino a spegnersi a soli 38 anni, il 2 novembre 1971. Fu un significativo compositore, orchestratore e leader che iniziò a suonare il vibrafono a 23 anni, bruciando le tappe: nel 1960, appena diplomato al Berklee College (dove studiò composizione), ...

John Scofield: Live

by John Kelman
January 20, 2016

John Scofield LiveEnja Records1977 After a lengthy hiatus, Rediscovery returns with an album that may not have represented the first time I'd heard John Scofield...but it was certainly the album that cemented my already firm impression that this was a guitarist on whom I'd have to keep a close watch. Nearly ...

Clark Gibson + Orchestra: Bird with Strings: The Lost Arrangements

by Jack Bowers
January 17, 2016

The story behind Bird with Strings: The Lost Arrangements is a long one and far too elaborate to dwell on here. Suffice to say that a handful of these arrangements for alto saxophone and small string orchestra, written originally for the incomparable Charlie Parker, have been heard before (albeit by rather small audiences) while most of ...

AA.VV.: Jazz from America on Disques Vogue

by Maurizio Zerbo
January 11, 2016

La Sony ha pubblicato un cofanetto che l'appassionato di jazz farebbe bene a non lasciarsi sfuggire. Articolato in venti CD, il cofanetto racchiude ben quarantuno dischi originali della Vogue Records. Fondata nel 1947 dal critico Charles Delaunay, la label francese si distinse per una lungimirante progettualità rivolta sia a far incidere i grandi jazzisti ...

Dot Time Records' Legends' Series Release: The National Jazz Ensemble Featuring Gerry Mulligan

January 8, 2016

Dot Time Records is pleased to announce the second release in its “Legends" series entitled National Jazz Ensemble featuring Gerry Mulligan. The album is scheduled for worldwide release on February 20th, 2016. This release is the first of a series of recordings by Chuck Israels and the National Jazz Ensemble (NJE) in the “Legends" Series. This ...

Larry Dickson Jazz Quartet: Second Springtime

by Jack Bowers
December 3, 2015

On Second Springtime, baritone saxophonist Larry Dickson, a mainstay for more than three decades with Cincinnati's renowned Blue Wisp Big Band, leads a quartet sans piano, much like Gerry Mulligan's groundbreaking ensemble from the early '50s. Unlike Mulligan's storied quartet, however, Dickson shares the front line not with a trumpeter (Chet Baker) but a tenor saxophonist ...

Mundell Lowe / Lloyd Wells / Jim Ferguson: Poor Butterfly

by Mark Sullivan
December 3, 2015

Mainstream jazz guitar doesn't get much better than this. Guitarist Mundell Lowe's long career includes sideman stints with Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, André Previn, and many others; he has composed film and TV scores as well. Co-guitarist Lloyd Wells also grew up in Laurel, Mississippi, giving the pair a hometown connection. The two previously collaborated on ...

Ron Carter and the WDR Big Band: My Personal Songbook

by Angelo Leonardi
November 25, 2015

Ron Carter non è solo un protagonista indiscusso nella storia del contrabbasso ma anche un eccellente compositore che, a dispetto dei 3000 album registrati, non ne ha mai dedicato uno per intero ai suoi brani. Erano anni che il produttore Lucas Schmid voleva realizzare questo progetto ma solo nel novembre 2013, dopo una lunga ...

Gerry Mulligan: Bern, 1990

November 25, 2015