Guitar man planted in rock roots Oct 31, 2008
Studies at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston led to a stint with Gerry Mulligan, then an invitation to tour with jazz-fusion drummer Billy Cobham. By the early '80s Scofield was playing with Miles Davis, and his reputation as one of the most compelling and genre-crossing guitarists in the country was assured. (The Age)
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Jazz Cooks at Castle Street Cafe, as Chef Michael Ballon Issues CD of Favorite Jazz Performers Apr 12, 2008
Performers on the CD include Ted Rosenthal, a veteran of Gerry Mulligans band,; vocalists Stephanie Nakasian, Terry Roiger and Vikki True; pianists Adrian Cohen, Lee Shaw, and Armen Donelian; guitarist Jay Messer, and the band Advanced Phunk ... Many of these musicians have performed with jazz legends such as Lionel Hampton, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins, and it is a pleasure to showcase their extraordinary musical talent in Great Barrington. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
From Golden State to golden culture Mar 23, 2008
And the jazz players who came of age on Los Angeles's Central Avenue - Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Teddy Edwards, later on Ornette Coleman - made music far removed from the unemphatic, even pallid sounds of such stalwarts of West Coast jazz as Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck. The point is how culturally varied and rich California was in the '50s - and how good the state was at what we'd now call 2. (Boston Globe)
Art Review | 'Birth of the Cool': Store in a cool, fertile place: 1950s California Mar 22, 2008
Perhaps the richest manifestation of the cool was the West Coast jazz played by Gerry Mulligan (who worked with Davis on "Birth of the Cool"), Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Chet Baker and others. A section of the exhibition is devoted to the noirish photographs of these and other musicians by William Claxton, whose work adorned the covers of many record albums. (International Herald Tribune)
''Birth of the Cool'' showcases artists with designs on the future Feb 29, 2008
The elegant sounds of Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and more roll through "Birth of the Cool" as effortlessly as Pacific surf. Sinuous harmonies lightly play off paintings and photographs. (Boston Globe)
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Wyatt "Bull" Ruther Feb 26, 2008
After that a long list of top talent tapped Ruther - Garner, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Chico Hamilton, Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing, Mary Lou Williams - for tours and record dates ... To watch a video of Wyatt "Bull" Ruther performing with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, go to. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Barry Manilow brings the magic to Nassau Coliseum Dec 5, 2007
His 1984 album, "2 a.m. Paradise Caf?," featured Sarah Vaughan, Gerry Mulligan and other jazz veterans. Manilow tackled show tunes on 1991's "Showstoppers," covered the standards on 1994's "Singin' With the Big Bands" and even recorded a Broadwayesque concept album, 2001's "Here at The Mayflower.". (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Elaine Lorillard; helped start Newport Jazz Festival Dec 3, 2007
One weekend, jazz virtuouso saxophonist Gerry Mulligan slept in her yard, she said. "As far as I'm concerned," famous jazz producer John Hammond once told author Burt Goldblatt, "Elaine Lorillard should have the whole credit for the concept of the Newport Jazz Festival.". (Boston Globe)
More of this story Nov 29, 2007
In 1954, she and then-husband tobacco heir Louis Lorillard, hired Boston nightclub owner George Wein to help produce a jazz festival at the Newport Casino, including performers such as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Gerry Mulligan ... She became friends with performers such as Miles Davis and Paul Desmond, along with the poet Langston Hughes, recalling how Gerry Mulligan crashed on her lawn in 1954. (Newport Daily News, RI)
50 Years Of Jazz Sep 16, 2007
He's wowed when he hears who else performed that weekend when what is now the world's oldest continuously running jazz festival took flight: Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Billie Holiday, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Max Roach, Benny Carter, Buddy DeFranco and the Harry James Orchestra, among others. "What a lineup! It's a shame I didn't get to hear most of those people," says Rollins, who probably flew in, played and then left for another gig. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
TV Preview: Eastwood's passion for music shows in Bennett film Sep 12, 2007
In the late 1940s, Eastwood started checking out more West Coast jazz, players such as Lucky Thompson, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Kenton and Chet Baker, to name a few ... All the big-name players came through there, like Erroll Garner, Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Creative musician's sweet notes cherished Aug 14, 2007
Along with Burton and Parker, Mr. Pomeroy played at various times with Ornette Coleman, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Max Roach, and Sonny Rollins. During four decades at Berklee, 22 years at MIT, and a stint at New England Conservatory, Mr. Pomeroy taught hundreds of students. (Boston Globe)
Konitz present at birth of cool jazz, and hot to this day Aug 4, 2007
With baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, pianist John Lewis and drummer Max Roach also aboard, the nonet recorded sessions that led to the "Birth of the Cool" album, which gave rise to the cool jazz movement that later became associated with the West Coast. Musically groundbreaking, the nonet was also controversial because it contained black and white musicians together. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bill Barber, 87; jazz tuba player Jul 2, 2007
Barber was featured on "Birth of the Cool" and later Davis albums such as "Blue Miles," "Miles Ahead," "Porgy and Bess" and "Sketches of Spain." He stood out on the 1957 Leonard Feather and Dick Hyman release "The Hi-Fi Suite" for his solo on "Woofer" and also played on recordings led by saxophonists Gigi Gryce, John Coltrane and Gerry Mulligan. By the early 1960s, Barber settled into a full-time career as a high school music teacher on Long Island. (Los Angeles Times)
Bill Barber, 87, pioneer in melding of tuba, jazz Jul 1, 2007
Mr. Barber was featured on "Birth of the Cool" and later Davis albums such as "Blue Miles," "Miles Ahead," "Porgy and Bess," and "Sketches of Spain." He stood out on the 1957 Leonard Feather and Dick Hyman release "The Hi-Fi Suite" for his solo on "Woofer" and also played on recordings led by saxophonists Gigi Gryce, John Coltrane, and Gerry Mulligan (another Thornhill veteran). Mr. Barber played with arranger Pete Rugolo's band and the experimental Eddie Sauter-Bill Finegan outfit in the early... (Boston Globe)
Guitarist Terrence Brewer's melodies inhabit your head. That's his magic. Mar 21, 2007
It was applied in the '50s and '60s to California players like Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck and his sweet-sounding alto player Paul Desmond -- artists who may have been a bit more mellow than their frenetic counterparts in New York like John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. MP3s. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jazz festival still bopping in Idaho after 40 years Feb 24, 2007
Some of the greats who have performed include Gerry Mulligan, Dizzy Gillespie, Dianne Reeves, Stan Getz, Carmen McRae, Diana Krall, Wynton Marsalis and Sarah Vaughan. That's no small feat when you consider that Moscow is a town of 20,000 people located 80 miles south of Spokane, Wash. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Whitney Balliett, jazz scribe for New Yorker Feb 9, 2007
"The jazz show, hosted by New York Herald Tribune columnist John Crosby, brought to millions of homes such eclectic performers as Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Gerry Mulligan, and Thelonious Monk. The program also featured unlikely pairings of musicians, such as Russell and Jimmy Giuffre, clarinetists of two very different generations and styles.Eric Larrabee wrote in Harper's magazine that "The Sound of Jazz" was the "best thing that ever happened to television. "Collections of his New Yorker... (Boston Globe)
Newport Jazz Festival Feb 5, 2007
Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan, accompanied by Jack Six on bass and Alan Dawson on drums, took over, and in a medium blues Mulligan fashioned three superb, husky, down-home stop-time choruses ... Gerry Mulligan s voice was heard briefly over the loudspeakers, telling the kids to cool it, and then Father Norman O Connor, who had been the m.c., made an impassioned plea, which seemed to have some result. (New Yorker)
Whitney Balliett, 80; longtime New Yorker jazz writer Feb 3, 2007
"The jazz show, hosted by New York Herald Tribune columnist John Crosby, brought to millions of homes such eclectic performers as Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk. Eric Larrabee wrote in Harper's magazine that "The Sound of Jazz" was the "best thing that ever happened to television. "Columbia Records produced an album of the show's performers, and a video of the program was released in the mid-1980s.Jazz critic John S. Wilson, writing in the New York Times in 1985,... (Los Angeles Times)
