Word: mulligans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Coasters include such names as Drummer Shelly Manne, 33, Trumpeter-Arranger Shorty Rogers, 29, Saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz, both 26, Pianist Dave Brubeck, 32. At the top of the list stands a skinny (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) 24-year-old ex-Army trumpeter named Chet Baker. He was voted the country's best jazz trumpeter in year-end popularity polls by both Down Beat and Metronome...
...flunked out as a junior college music major. He taught himself the trumpet in junior high school when he wanted to join the band, later played in Army bands in Berlin and San Francisco. He played with a few California combos before he made his big splash with Gerry Mulligan's quartet in 1952 (TIME...
Eyes Shut. Gerald Joseph Mulligan looks more extreme than he sounds. His hair is cut for a Jerry Lewis effect, crew-cropped on top, bangs in front. He has a sleepy face, and on the bandstand he keeps his watery-green eyes closed even when listening to Trumpeter Chet Baker, opens them only occasionally to glower at customers who are boorish enough to talk against the music...
...Mulligan is extremely serious about his music. As early as he can remember, he was inventing tunes of his own on the piano-"I hate to play other people's." In seventh grade he got a clarinet and made his first arrangement. By his senior year at Philadelphia's West Catholic High School, he was a full-fledged arranger, and his studies had fallen off lamentably. "I walked into physics class and listened to the teacher. Man, I didn't get a word of it. Right then and there, I quit...
After a long evening at the horn, Jazzman Mulligan finds he is too keyed up by 2 a.m. to sleep, so he stays up until 6 writing new tunes and arrangements. Next Mulligan objective: an enlarged band and a nationwide tour. "I've got to keep moving. I've got to grow...