The Gerry Mulligan Collection

(Artist Transcriptions). 14 signature songs for bari sax, including: Bernie's Tune * Chelsea Bridge * Five Brothers * Line for Lyons * My Funny Valentine * Out of Nowhere * Song for Strayhorn * Walkin' Shoes * and more. Includes a bio and discography on Mulligan.

The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a piano or guitar. Using original scores and detailed transcriptions of Mulligan's early work, The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets offers an intimate look at Mulligan's musical development from his teenage years to adulthood, analyzing the ways in which his compositions and arrangements evolved through collaborations with Elliot Lawrence, Gene Krupa, and Claude Thornhill, culminating with Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool nonet. Featuring original interviews with Mulligan's associates, author Alyn Shipton presents a fresh take on Mulligan's harmonic creativity, in the process tracing the ups and downs of Mulligan's personal life, heroin addiction, imprisonment, and eventual sobriety.

Supervised by Mulligan himself, this package consists of leadsheets, text, a discography, and a play-along CD of Gerry's brilliant rhythm section (Ted Rosenthal - Piano, Dean Johnson - Bass, Ron Vincent - Drums). Selections include: Festive Minor * A Gift For Dizzy * Line For Lyons * Sun on the Stairs * Walkin' Shoes * and more. Perfect for the student and professional alike.

(Instrumental Folio). This huge collection offers instrumentalists the chance to play 101 classical themes, including: Ave Maria (J.S. Bach/C. Gounod) * Ave Maria (Schubert) * Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) (Stozel) * Canon in D (Pachelbel) * Clair de Lune (Debussy) * Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky) * 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky) * Eine Kleine Nachtmusik ("Serenade") (Mozart) * The Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov) * Funeral March of a Marionette (Gounod) * Fur Elise (Beethoven) * Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie) * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S. Bach) * Lullaby (Brahms) * Minuet in G (Bach) * Ode to Joy (Beethoven) * Piano Sonata in C Major (Mozart) * Pie Jesu (Faure) * Rondeau (Mouret) * Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) * Wedding March (Mendelssohn) * William Tell Overture (Rossini) * and many more.

Supervised by Mulligan himself, these great book/CD packs consist of leadsheets, text, a discography, and a play-along CD of Gerry's brilliant rhythm section (Ted Rosenthal - Piano, Dean Johnson - Bass, Ron Vincent - Drums). Selections include: Festive Minor * A Gift for Dizzy * Line for Lyons * Sun on the Stairs * Walkin' Shoes * and more. Perfect for students and professionals alike!

Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music is an intimate chronicle of Gerry Mulligan’s life and career, told in his own words. This personal narrative reveals great insight into the musician’s complex personality. He speaks freely about the important milestones in both his personal and professional life, bringing a new understanding to the man behind the music. Gerry Mulligan was one of the most important figures in the history of jazz. He was extremely influential as both a composer/arranger and as an instrumentalist. His career spanned an amazing six decades, beginning in the 1940s and continuing up to his death in 1996. Within that time, he worked with almost every major jazz figure, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as his own illustrious groups that featured the likes of Chet Baker, Bob Brookmeyer, Art Farmer, and Chico Hamilton. As a composer, his music was distinct and original. His melodies were masterpieces, logically structured and filled with wit and humor. As an arranger, his linear approach and clever use of counterpoint helped define a new standard for modern jazz orchestration. As an instrumentalist, he is the most significant baritone saxophonist in the history of jazz. Gerry Mulligan single-handedly established the baritone saxophone as a solo voice. As one of the great jazz innovators, his writing and playing influenced entire stylistic movements, including cool jazz and bossa nova. This is his story, the way he wanted it told.

Supervised by Mulligan himself, this package consists of leadsheets, text, a discography, and a play-along CD of Gerry's brilliant rhythm section (Ted Rosenthal - Piano, Dean Johnson - Bass, Ron Vincent - Drums). Selections include: Festive Minor * A Gift For Dizzy * Line For Lyons * Sun on the Stairs * Walkin' Shoes * and more. Perfect for the student and professional alike.

JERU'S JOURNEY: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF GERRY MULLIGAN

(Book). In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Gerry Mulligan was revered and recognized as a groundbreaking composer, arranger, bandleader, and baritone saxophonist. His legacy comes to life in this biography, which chronicles his immense contributions to American music, far beyond the world of jazz. Mulligan's own observations are drawn from his oral autobiography, recorded in 1995. These are intermingled with comments and recollections from those who knew him, played with him, or were influenced by him, as well as from the author, who interviewed him in 1981. Jeru's Journey The Life & Music of Gerry Mulligan vividly recounts all the major milestones and complications in Mulligan's extraordinary life and career, ranging from his early days of arranging for big bands in the 1940s to his chance 1974 meeting with Countess Franca Rota, who would have a major impact on the last two decades of his life. In between were his battles with drugs; his significant contributions to the historic 1949 Birth of the Cool recording; the introduction of an enormously popular piano-less quartet in the early 1950s; the creation of his innovative concert jazz band in the early '60s; his collaboration personal and professional with actress Judy Holliday; his breakthrough into classical music; and his love of and respect for the American Songbook.