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The Nearness Of You by Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker
Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker
Artist Biography For Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker
American Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan And Trumpet Player Chet Baker Have Collaborated To Produce Several Albums Together. A Charismatic And Talented Prince Of Cool Jazz Baker Represented A Seductive Form Of Passive Rebellion. If He Was The Romantic Ballad-Singer Who Was Irresistible To Women And The Trumpet Lyricist Who Played By Ear Then He Was Also The Shambolic Alienated Junkie Who Would Eventually Be Found Dead On An Amsterdam Street At The Age Of 58. Back In The Early 1950s However Baker Was A Rising Star Who Had Been Recruited By Charlie Parker To Inherit The Mantle Previously Worn By Dizzy Gillespie And Miles Davis. Parker Once Described Baker As The Boy From California Who Would "eat Him Up". He Then Went On To Join Baritone Saxophonist And Composer Gerry Mulligan A Key Contributor To Davis's Groundbreaking Birth Of The Cool Album. Mulligan Played The Cumbersome Baritone Sax As If It Were A Tenor Or Even An Alto Preserving Its Gruff And Rugged Sound But Giving It A Melodic Agility That Resembled The Fluency Of Lester Young. But He Was Also A Composer And Arranger Of Harmonic Sophistication And Theme-Weaving Contrapuntal Skill Who Could Write Illuminatingly For Big Bands He Was A Staff Arranger For Stan Kenton And Make Small Bands Sound Bigger Than They Were. Mulligan Played The Haig On Wiltshire Boulevard In Los Angeles In 1952. The Young Chet Baker Began Sitting In. Because The Vibraphonist Red Norvo A Mainstay At The Club Took A Keyboard-Player's Role The Establishment Had Disposed Of Its Piano. So Mulligan And Baker Began Thinking Of How To Work Without One. An Elegant Intertwining Low-Key And Ambiguously Chord-Free The Heyday Of This Quartet Mulligan And Baker Plus Bass And Drums Was In 1952-53 After Which Mulligan Was Sent To Prison On Narcotics Charges And Baker Became A Solo Star. But At That Time The "pianoless Quartet" Became One Of The Most Distinctive Sounds In Jazz The Quintessence Of The Cool Style And A Model For Innumerable Ensembles To This Day. Here's One Of Their All-Time Classics Mulligan's Composition Walking Shoes.
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Biography - Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker
American Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan And Trumpet Player Chet Baker Have Collaborated To Produce Several Albums Together. A Charismatic And Talented Prince Of Cool Jazz Baker Represented A Seductive Form Of Passive Rebellion. If He Was The Romantic Ballad-Singer Who Was Irresistible To Women And The Trumpet Lyricist Who Played By Ear Then He Was Also The Shambolic Alienated Junkie Who Would Eventually Be Found Dead On An Amsterdam Street At The Age Of 58. Back In The Early 1950s However Baker Was A Rising Star Who Had Been Recruited By Charlie Parker To Inherit The Mantle Previously Worn By Dizzy Gillespie And Miles Davis. Parker Once Described Baker As The Boy From California Who Would "eat Him Up". He Then Went On To Join Baritone Saxophonist And Composer Gerry Mulligan A Key Contributor To Davis's Groundbreaking Birth Of The Cool Album. Mulligan Played The Cumbersome Baritone Sax As If It Were A Tenor Or Even An Alto Preserving Its Gruff And Rugged Sound But Giving It A Melodic Agility That Resembled The Fluency Of Lester Young. But He Was Also A Composer And Arranger Of Harmonic Sophistication And Theme-Weaving Contrapuntal Skill Who Could Write Illuminatingly For Big Bands He Was A Staff Arranger For Stan Kenton And Make Small Bands Sound Bigger Than They Were. Mulligan Played The Haig On Wiltshire Boulevard In Los Angeles In 1952. The Young Chet Baker Began Sitting In. Because The Vibraphonist Red Norvo A Mainstay At The Club Took A Keyboard-Player's Role The Establishment Had Disposed Of Its Piano. So Mulligan And Baker Began Thinking Of How To Work Without One. An Elegant Intertwining Low-Key And Ambiguously Chord-Free The Heyday Of This Quartet Mulligan And Baker Plus Bass And Drums Was In 1952-53 After Which Mulligan Was Sent To Prison On Narcotics Charges And Baker Became A Solo Star. But At That Time The "pianoless Quartet" Became One Of The Most Distinctive Sounds In Jazz The Quintessence Of The Cool Style And A Model For Innumerable Ensembles To This Day. Here's One Of Their All-Time Classics Mulligan's Composition Walking Shoes.
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