Complete Studio Recording [Import]

Gerry Mulligan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Lone Hill Jazz
• ASIN: B000BYAD20
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,502 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Butterfly with Hiccups

2. Old Devil Moon

3. The Ant Hill

4. Crazy Day

5. Night Lights

6. Manha de Carnaval [Black Orpheus Theme]

7. Wee Small Hours

8. Prelude in E Minor

9. Festive Minor

10. Tell Me When

11. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

12. Theme for Jobim

13. Blues for Lynda

14. Line for Lyons

15. The Lonely Nights (Night Lights) [*]

Editorial Reviews

This release features the complete studio sessions of Mulligan's outstanding sextet with Farmer, Brookmeyer, Jim Hall, Bill Crow and Dave Bailey recorded during September and October, 1963 and released on Phillips' Night Lights album and Limelight's exceptional Butterfly With Hiccups LP. Also included here as bonus tracks is the complete quartet session featuring Brookmeyer, Crow and Bailey recorded on June 25, 1964 and released on Limelight's Butterfly With Hiccups LP. Disconfrome. 2005.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really cool, July 11, 2006

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George H. Soule (Edwardsville, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Studio Recording (Audio CD)

These Mulligan Sextet studio recordings feature 1962's Limelight recording, "Butterfly with Hiccups" and "Night Lights" a 1963 Verve recording. As on the Mulligan Quartet studio compilation that complements this reissue disc, Mulligan's baritone saxophone is accompanied by Bob Brookmeyer's valve trombone. These two are augmented by Art Farmer on trumpet and flugelhorn and Jim Hall on guitar. As with the quartet, Bill Crow on bass and Dave Bailey on drums round out the rhythm section with Mulligan playing piano when he thinks it's needed. The songs are mostly Mulligan originals like "Line for Lyons," "Butterfly with Hiccups," and "Festive Minor." There are some standards--"Old Devil Moon," and "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" and a delightful rendition of "Manha de Carnaval" from "Black Orpheus." The disc features a good balance of ballads and up-tempo numbers. And always there is that delicate interplay and lyricism that characterizes Jim Hall's playing with everyone. Brookmeyer, Farmer, Mulligan, and Hall do play fine music together with ample counterpoint to make the ensembles interesting and adequate solo space for all the players. And you get to hear some of that Mulligan piano---more than competent---on ""Theme for Jobim" and "Blues for Lynda." If you don't know this West Coast jazz, you owe it to yourself to listen to some--and this disc is a great place to start.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Been searching for decades, May 1, 2011

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Jet - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Studio Recording (Audio CD)

I have loved this recording since I first heard it 35 years ago. A friend had it on vinyl (how I heard it) but gave his copy away years ago. An all-star group with JIM HALL to boot! I am so excited about the prospect of hearing this extraordinary album again. If you love this era of be-bop / cool jazz, BUY IT TODAY! You won't be sorry.