Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond Quartet Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond Quartet (Vinyl, Verve Records, 1957) ****
Genre: Jazz
Places I remember: The Little Red Bookshop (Hastings)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Line For Lyons
Gear costume: Fallout
Active compensatory factors: This is a great mix of two different sax styles. Isn't it amazing - same instrument but wildly different tones and sounds.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Line For Lyons
Gear costume: Fallout
Active compensatory factors: This is a great mix of two different sax styles. Isn't it amazing - same instrument but wildly different tones and sounds.
Thanks to Dave Brubeck, I am much more aware of Paul Desmond than I am Gerry Mulligan. Desmond has that ultra smooth sound that he perfected inside the Dave Brubeck classic quartet, Mulligan is harsher by comparison, yet still well inside the cool school.
Sidebar: I am unashameably anti smoking and it really pisses me off how many jazz album covers feature the protagonist in various poses holding, or smoking a cigarette. Not smart. Not clever Gerry. I don't like it.
Where do they all belong? A stand alone album in the jazz section.
Where do they all belong? A stand alone album in the jazz section.
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