Nights at Turntable [Import]

Gerry Mulligan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Back Up
• ASIN: B0000TAPB0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #980,561 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nights At The Turntable

2. Bernies Tune

3. Soft Shoe

4. Freeway

5. Walkin Shoes

6. Arent You Glad Youre You

7. Makin Whoopee

8. My Old Flame

9. Swinghouse

10. Carson City Stage

11. Love Me Or Leave Me

12. My Funny Valentine

13. Im Beginning To See The Light

14. Darn That Dream

15. Jeru

Editorial Reviews

This CD charts the early career of jazz giant Gerry Mulligan, from his days as a struggling hot-headed & distinctive voice in New York s musical community to his popular success with his own quartet formed in Los Angeles with Chet Baker on trumpet. This group not only secured both Mulligan & Baker s future but made the baritone Saxophonist the most prominent & respected figure upon his instrument in the jazz world Included are many of Mulligans famous compositions such as Walkin Shoes , Line for Lyons and Bark for Barksdale as well as the Quartets two big hits Bernies Tune and the version of Rogers & Hart s My Funny Valentine that established Baker as one of jazz most lyrical improvisers. Compiled & Annotated by Simon Spillett, with full discography included in an informative 12 page booklet. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.