Time Out Ten
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Love In New Orleans
For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.
We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.
Perhaps the best known Gerry Mulligan Quartet recordings are the pianoless quartets with Chet Baker - Mulligan's baritone saxophone worked well with Baker's trumpet. It was narcotics charges in mid-1953 that brought the collaboration to an end.
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Mulligan continued the quartet format with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer replacing Baker, and the result is a very distinctive sound from the core members - other musicians would join from time to time. In 1960, Gerry formed a Concert Big Band, but two years later he returned to the Quartet format and recorded an album with Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax), Bob Brookmeyer (valve trombone), Bill Crow (bass) and Gus Johnson (drums). Here they are with the track Love In New Orleans from the album
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10.2024