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Gerry Mulligan

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Gerry Mulligan – The Age of Steam CD & DVD

This extraordinary CD/DVD set features a standard audio CD of the original A&M recording of “The Age of Steam” mixed in Dolby Digital stereo and surround sound. The DVD with over four hours of content includes: the documentary “Listen: Gerry Mulligan”The Gerry Mulligan Jazz Master Class and interviews with several participants in that recording (Bob Brookmeyer, Roger Kellaway, Tom Scott and Stephan Goldman). The DVD also includes the sheet music for each composition on the recording, including the parts for each instrument, which can be printed out from a PC.

Inventory # HL 00320473
ISBN: 0634093274
UPC: 73999204735
Width: 5″
Length: 8″

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Gerry Mulligan Play-Along Songbook

Supervised by Mulligan himself, this package consists of leadsheets, text, a discography, and a play-along CD of Gerry’s brilliant rhythm section (Ted Rosenthal – Piano, Dean Johnson – Bass, Ron Vincent – Drums).

Songs included: Bark for Barksdale — Dragonfly — Elevation — I Heard the Shadows Dancing — Idol Gossip — Jeru — K-4 Pacific — The Lonely Night (Night Lights) — Noblesse — Rocker (Rock Salt) — Theme for Jobim — Wallflower — Wood on Wood

9×12 inches, 44 pages

Version Inventory HL# ISBN
C Instruments 00841258 0793587468
Bass Clef Instruments 00841261 0793587514
B-flat Instruments 00841259 0793587492
E-flat Instruments 00841260 0793587506

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Gerry Mulligan Workshop Video

Legendary composer/arranger/baritone and soprano saxophonist Gerry Mulligan presents a jazz master class in this video presentation. He discusses the musicians and big bands who influenced him, the ‘Birth of the Cool’ ensemble, his groundbreaking piano-less quartet and Concert Jazz Band, and his candid views on the music scene today. He also discusses and demonstrates his ideas on improvisation. As an added bonus, there are two previously unavailable performances of Mulligan in concert: one with his quartet and another with his Concert Jazz Band.

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Inventory # HL 00320072
ISBN: 0793577667
UPC: 73999722123
Width: 4.70
Length: 88 min.

Books Written on Gerry Mulligan:

  • Gerry Mulligan. Raymond Horricks, Apollo Press Ltd., London 1986
  • Listen: Gerry Mulligan: an aural narrative in jazz. Jerome Klinkowitz, Schirmer Books, New York 1991
  • Gerry Mulligan’s Ark. Raymond Horricks, The Owlet Press, Isle of Wight, England 2003

Selected Bibliography:

  • Jazz Masters of the 50′s. Joe Goldberg, The Macmillan Company, New York 1965
  • Judy Holliday. A biography by Will Holtzman, G.P. Putnam & Sons, New York 1982
  • Jazz A History. Frank Tirro, W.W. Norton Company, Inc., New York 1993 & 1977
  • West Coast Jazz, Modern Jazz in California 1945-1960. Ted Gioia, University of California Press, Los Angeles 1998
  • Visions of Jazz: The First Century. Gary Giddins, Oxford University Press, New York 1998
  • Performing Arts Motion Pictures: Editor, Iris Newsom and Publisher, W. Ralph Eubanks, Library of Congress 1998.
  • Arranging the Score, Portraits of the Great Arrangers. Gene Lees, Cassell, New York 2000