Gerry Mulligan ‎– The Concert Jazz Band At Newport 1960

• LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR’S ITEM

• INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

This release presents a complete rarely heard live performance by the extraordinary Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band. Taped with excellent sound quality at the July 1960 Newport Jazz Festival while the band was recording their first studio sessions, it features such important names as Bob Brookmayer, Conte Candoli, Gene Quill, Mel Lewis, and of course Mulligan himself. As a bonus, the only surviving song from a Berlin concert by the band that took place the following November and a sextet number recorded in Newport a few years later. The 1960 Newport concert is the ideal complement to the CD box set of the Concert Jazz Band issued by Mosaic, which doesn’t include the performance among its contents.

PERSONNEL:

• [1-11] Gerry Mulligan & The Concert Jazz Band:
• Gerry Mulligan – (baritone sax, conductor) plus:

• Don Ferrara, Conte Candoli, Phil Sunkel – (trumpet)
• Bob Brookmeyer – (valve trombone)
• Wayne Andre – (trombone)
• Alan Raph – (bass trombone)
• Gene Quill – (clarinet & alto sax)
• Jim Reider – (tenor sax)
• Dick Meldonian – (alto sax)
• Gene Allen – (baritone sax, bass clarinet)
• Buddy Clark – (bass)
• Mel Lewis – (drums)

Recorded live at Newport Jazz festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 1, 1960.

• BONUS TRACKS:

• (12) Same personnel as 1-11 except
• Nick Travis replaces Sunkel
• Willie Dennis – (trombone, replaces Andre)
• Bob Donovan – (alto sax, replaces Meldonian
• Zoot Sims – (tenor sax, added)
• Berlin. Germany, November 4, 1960.

• (13) GERRY MULLIGAN SEXTET
• Gerry Mulligan – (baritone sax)
• Bob Brookmeyer – (valve trombone)
• Art Farmer – (flugelhorn)
• Jim Hall – (guitar)
• Bill Crow – (bass)
• Dave Bailey – (drums)
• Newport jazz festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 5, 1963.

TRACKS:

• 01. Announcement / Utter Chaos
• 02. Broadway
• 03. Theme from «I Want To Live»
• 04. Out Of This World
• 05. Manoir de Mes Reves
• 06. Carrots For Rabbit
• 07. Walkin’ Shoes
• 08. Sweet and Slow
• 09. I’m Gonna Go Fishin’
• 10. Blueport
• 11. Utter Chaos (closing theme)
• 12. Theme from «I Want To Live»
• 13. The Any Hill

• Total time: 72:05