Word: mulligans
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...Jazz Age of the '20s, social critics heard the trumps of doom amid the saxophones, and Poet Hart Crane was tortured by "the phonographs of hades in the brain." The phonographs of 1954 sound far less like hades. Jazz as played by Brubeck and other modernists (Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers) is neither chaotic nor abandoned. It evokes neither swinging hips nor hip flasks. It goes to the head and the heart more than to the feet. Spokesmen for various jazz cliques have claimed that it doesn't swing (or swings like crazy), is cool...
Bengt Hallberg (Pacific Jazz EP).Lars Gullin's baritone sax sounds something like Gerry Mulligan's, Hallberg's piano is light and feathery, and the progressive counterpoint eked out by the eight-man ensemble adds up to some fine modern jazz. Imported from Sweden...
...reels that will make up 80% of the new season's film entertainment. Best of the new crop may be Medic, which takes a microscopic view of such medical problems as the birth of a baby and the operational cure of a cleft palate, and Hey, Mulligan, a new series starring Mickey Rooney as an NBC page...
When Pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio gave a fast-fingered version of Tenderly sprinkled with suave dissonances, the modernist crowd was ready to call it the high point of the festival. But the younger set shrieked louder when hollow-cheeked Gerry Mulligan bellowed and coaxed The Lady Is a Tramp through his big baritone sax. The concert finally ended after midnight with a 20-man jam session that sent the strangest sounds ever heard in Newport floating up to the stars...
None of the three men who now play with Mulligan were with him on the Coast. Gone is Chet Baker, a trumpeter who got too good to play second fiddle. Together, Baker and Mulligan worked perfectly--the easy, sliver-like sounds of Baker's horn a perfect complement to the fullness of the baritone sax. Not until last night have I heard Brookmeyer do as well with Mulligan as Baker...