Being Gerry Mulligan : my life in music /
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| Author / Creator: | Mulligan, Gerry, author. |
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| Imprint: | Essex, Connecticut : Backbeat Books, [2023] ©2023 |
| Description: | xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12971566 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Preface
- 1. One to Ten in Ohio
- 2. Ohio Traveler
- 3. On the Road with Tommy Tucker
- 4. On the Air with Elliot Lawrence
- 5. "Disc Me? Jump"
- 6. Claude and Gil
- 7. The Fifth of the Cool
- 8. Utter Chaos: Heroin and Turmoil
- 9. Gail Madden and Creative Research
- 10. Leavin' Town: New York to Los Angeles
- 11. "Young Blood": Writing for Stan Kenton
- 12. The Pianoless Quartet
- 13. Adventures on the West Coast
- 14. The Tentet: Further Explorations with the Birth of the Cool
- 15. The Sheriff's Honor Farm and Goodbye Chet
- 16. "Walking Shoes": Leaving Hollywood
- 17. Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
- 18. Addiction and Treatment
- 19. 1957-1959: A Hectic Schedule
- 20. Alec Wilder and the Algonquin Hotel
- 21. Subterranean Blues: Back to Hollywood
- 22. The Concert Jazz Band
- 23. Theme for Jobim
- 24. Holliday with Mulligan
- 25. Song for an Unfinished Woman
- 26. It's Sandy at the Beach
- 27. Social and Political Changes in the 1960s
- 28. Compares. The Saxophonist Who Came to Dinner
- 29. The Age of Steam and Meeting Franca
- 30. Happy Birthday 1974
- 31. Reunion with Chet, La Menace, and Goodbye Charlie
- 32. Étude for Franca
- 33. "Entente for Baritone Saxophone and Orchestra"
- 34. "Bright Angel Falls"
- 35. Music, Freedom, and Race
- 36. The Quartet
- Index
