Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulliganwas an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth6 April 1927
CountryUnited States of America
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
But it's been kind of a sequence of events you know those sorts of things: you meet people and things happen, without thinking about it.
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
New York is still where I live most of the time.
I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
I've appeared on some other people's albums.