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The Concert Jazz Band is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan featuring performances recorded in 1960 which were released on the Verve label. [2] [3] [4]
Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard is a live album by jazz saxophonist and bandleader Gerry Mulligan featuring performances recorded at the Village Vanguard in late 1960 which were released on the Verve label.
Sep 7, 2021 · A year later Mulligan shocked the jazz world and his own extensive fan base by deciding to form a big band. The big-band era was a distant memory by then, having ended at least a decade earlier, but it represented a return to his musical roots.
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Mulligan formed his first "Concert Jazz Band" in the spring of 1960. Partly an attempt to revisit big band music in a smaller setting, the band varied in size and personnel, with the core group being six brass, five reeds (including Mulligan) and a pianoless two-piece rhythm section (though as in the earlier quartets Mulligan or Brookmeyer ...
Aug 28, 2019 · The Concert Jazz Band was the culmination of Gerry Mulligan’s fascination with the idea of bands that were were not-quite small and not-quite big. It began in 1949-50 with the nine-piece group under Miles Davis’s name, now known as “Birth of the Cool” .
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Sep 7, 2021 · The band performed at 6 pm and midnight at the Paris Olympia Theatre in November 1960. Gambit Records 69249 has already released the entire second concert together with the 1962 quartet titles heard here on CD3.
