18-year-old Sean McCoy of Raleigh, North Carolina was the Grand-Prize Winner in the 2024 Gerry Mulligan Jazz Challenge. The Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation sponsors the Jazz Contest each year and received entries from all …
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The Gerry and Franca Mulligan Foundation once again invites students nationwide to participate in the annual Gerry Mulligan Jazz Challenge. This is an exciting opportunity for high school musicians to perform one of Gerry’s classic …
Continue ReadingMondaino Youth Orchestra Receives Scholarship
In 2022 The Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation awarded a scholarship to the MYO Mondaino Youth Orchestra located in Rimini Italy. For the past two years the orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Michele Chiaretti, …
Continue ReadingAutobiography Wins ARSC Award
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Gerry’s autobiography: Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music has won …
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We hope you enjoy this educational video about Gerry:
Continue ReadingGerry Mulligan Autobiography Released
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield has just released Gerry’s autobiography Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music. The books is an intimate chronicle of Gerry Mulligan’s life and career, told in his own words. This personal …
Continue ReadingFoundation Receives Clint Eastwood Gift
The Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation has received an autographed poster from Clint Eastwood. Read about it here: Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation Receives Autographed Poster from Clint Eastwood
Continue ReadingNew Gerry Mulligan Documentary
We are delighted to share with you a new documentary from Italy about Gerry. It features interviews with Franca Mulligan, Luca Cerchiari, Mario Marzi, Riccardo Muti, and the Venerable Thanthog Rinpoche. Created by MeMoMI.IT – …
Continue ReadingOne Song Charlie Couldn’t Live Without
A great article about Charlie Watts by Tom Taylor for the Far Out website: Charlie Watts Interview
Continue ReadingNJ Jazz Society on Gerry’s Jazz Challenge
A New Jersey Jazz Society article on Gerry Mulligan’s 2022 Jazz Challenge Contest: NJJS Gerry’s Jazz Challenge The New Jersey Jazz Society (NJJS) is a non-profit organization of business and professional people, musicians, teachers, students and listeners …
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