6 kwietnia 1927 w Nowym Jorku, zm. Gerald Joseph Mulligan (ur. And Miles was brilliant on those things, Miles and Lee both.“There are some words that have been lost from modern usage that I like to bring to my music and have striven all my life to do, beauty, grace, nobility, these are the things that music can bring to us as human beings and I think that it is well that we who make music keep that in our consciousness.”Gerry Mulligan. Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress. From the album, 'Birth of the Cool.' 1963 Portrait of Howard McGhee, Brick Fleagle, and Miles Davis, New York, N.Y., ca.
In Jon Eardley, Bob Brookmeyer and Zoot Sims, Mulligan found soloists with the same high degree of invention and melodic development that he possessed.– Gerry Mulligan. The 1955-56 Gerry Mulligan Sextet was an outstanding ensemble on several levels. Gerry Mulligan The Emarcy Sextet Recordings BOX 5LP. Karier muzyczn rozpocz w zespole Milesa Davisa w Gerry Mulligan The Emarcy Sextet Recordings BOX 5LP.
I hasten to add that whereas I am my brother’s keeper it is not my place to tell my brother what to do. In other words, I am my brother’s keeper. I would like to be in the position of the gods and sit up on top of a cloud and watch the people, then I would like to change the music of the people and watch the people change accordingly.”“This in a way has happened because music has become a big industry grinding out product as they call it in great quantities, with no sense of responsibility to the time and place, or the audience that they are playing to.”“This in a way is I think very important that we understand that freedom without responsibility produces ultimately chaos for the world. Nedzelas full, broad, yet razor-sharp sound combines the warmth of Gerry Mulligan.“We tend to define people by what they do, and that’s an oversimplification because, how I would define myself is a human being and what I am really concerned with are human values, primarily.”“I somewhere read a long time ago a description by one of the Greek philosophers who said I would like to be in the position of the gods.
I also prefer getting an even sound and a matching sound in all registers.The mouthpiece I use is a hard rubber Gale. It feels like you are losing some brilliance of sound to do that, but I prefer having an accurate intonation all over the horn. I often find it necessary to have the upper side keys closed a little bit to keep them from going sharp. It’s always a temptation to tune from the top notes because they usually speak so easily. One always has to be careful with baritones to take the intonation from the center of the horn, not from the top notes. An Interview in Verona, Italy – MaOn Mouthpieces“My experience with the Martin baritone is very limited, but as I recall from trying them years ago, they are nice horns and play pretty much in tune.
I looked a long time before I found this mouthpiece which suits my needs for most occasions.My mouthpiece was accidentally damaged recently and I was fortunate that there is a craftsman at Van Doren in Paris who not only was able to repair the damage, but has been able to work up some new mouthpieces based on their mold, that are quite presentable. I am very fortunate because whoever worked on it really knew what he was doing. I say approximately because it had obviously been worked on by somebody before I acquired it. This is of course a matter of personal preference and is a question of how responsive any given mouthpiece is to your requirements.My mouthpiece opening is approximately a five. I’ve always founds the Berg Larsen mouthpieces to be somewhat harsh in tone, especially the metal.
Using a stiffer reed eliminates a lot of the buzz from the sound, which I find very unattractive.”– Letter to Gerry Buckley. I find I can get a more even sound all over the horn by using a less open mouthpiece (especially the tip) and using a stiffer reed. My mouthpiece has a very long vamp that opens gradually to the tip, which is not very open at all. I see that most manufacturers are putting out mouthpieces with wide-open tips with a relatively short opening for the vamp. I hope that this comes to pass since I get many enquiries from saxophone players about my mouthpiece and since it’s such an obscure manufacturer and so old, I’m not really able to be of much help.As it happens, the opening of my mouthpiece is very unusual by today’s standards.
But either way can be just as creative.”Are you aware that in Italy many schools of jazz players, arrangers and singers are booming? Do you think this music can be taught in a conservatory? If yes, in which way?“I didn’t know there were many schools to teach jazz in Italy. In a way it’s more confining because there isn’t the piano to float on. I was about 17 when I got my first baritone.”Nowadays many saxophonists play without piano (you already did that 40 years ago): is this a way to feel more free, that’s to say to concentrate oneself more on the creative side?“I’m not sure you necessarily feel more free without a piano. Neal Hefti and Dizzy himself, were the fore-runners of this approach.”Did you start playing piano or baritone sax?“I started with a little training (very little!) on piano at age 7, then clarinet at 12, alto sax at 14. What I was trying to do was to combine the elements of the styles that appealed to me: Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, etc., and the big band idiom.
In my opinion nowadays a lot of values connected to this expression of art, such as spontaneity, creativity and excitement, are gradually losing ground. What is your opinion?“I agree with Duke Ellington about most everything!”Excluding jazz, what’s your favourite kind of music?“19 th and 20 th century orchestral music.”By the way, among your records and compositions, which ones do you prefer?“The Mulligan Meets Webster album The Age of Steam Summit with Astor Piazzolla Lonesome Boulevard, and Walk on the Water.”It has been almost half a century that I’ve been enjoying listening to jazz. The record companies at the moment seem only interested in the youngest players – they’ve developed an appetite for prodigies!”Duke Ellington said that there is no jazz without swing. The pressure on young players today is to achieve instant success. It’s not easy for young players to have the opportunities to play next to experienced older players. These qualities are quite separate and beyond the mechanics of music.
Gerry Mulligan Setup Plus Three Recording
Over the years I’ve played with a number of your finest players, including Gianni Basso, Tullio De Piscopo, and Mario Rusca. What’s your impression of its environment in general, and more specifically, talking about music, do you consider that it is possible to cooperate together with other Italian jazz players?“As you know, I like Italy very much, and I enjoy spending time in Milan. This has become a more and more materialistic time and we can only hope that there will be a renaissance of idealism and that this renaissance will lead to cultural wisdom and the survival, maybe even the triumph of the higher human values.”Which are your today’s project, intentions? What do you intend to create in the near future?“I’m writing new music (as always), my quartet is booked for two concert tours this spring and summer, probably Brazil in the fall, plus three recording projects underway.”You’ve got an Italian wife and a flat in the centre of Milan.
Everybody influenced everybody and Bird was influencer No. With all the great bands that were around then, big and little, it was an exciting time musically and everyone seemed to gravitate to Gil’s place. I’d been on the road a couple of years with various bands by that time, but with Gil’s encouragement, I decided to stay in New York. MaNotes on Miles’s Capital Band“I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time to be part of Miles’ Band. It’s a great environment for me I’m usually able to write very well there.”– Gerry Mulligan.
Wrote a couple of fine, interesting charts for Claude’s band that I suppose there’s no trace of now.John Benson Brookes our dreamer of impossible dreams.Dave Lambert our itinerant practical Yankee.Billy Exiner drummer with Thornhill and our home philosopher with his beautiful attitude toward life and music.Joe Shulman (Bassist with Thornhill) he believed Count Basie had the only rhythm section.Barry Galbraith the Freddy Greene of the Thornhill rhythm section and an altogether beautiful musician.Specs Goldberg blithe spirit. Anyone who writes a piece like “Israel” can’t be all bad, right?George Russell our resident innovator. Some of the more or less regulars at Gil’s that I remember are:John Carisi almost as hotheaded in an argument (discussion) as I am. Actually it was behind a Chinese Laundry and had all the pipes for the building as well as a sink, a bed, a piano, a hotplate, and no heat.
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