Genre: Jazz
Label: Mosaic
Format: 33RPM,
Size: 12"

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Gerry Mulligan The Emarcy Sextet Recordings Numbered, Limited Edition 180g 5LP Box Set

Gerry Mulligan

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SKU:
MQLP3008
UPC:
MQLP3008
Limited to 3500 copies! Individually Numbered!
180g Audiophile Vinyl! 5LP Box Set!
Mastered from the Original Analog Tapes!

The 1955-56 Gerry Mulligan Sextet was an outstanding ensemble on several levels. In Jon Eardley, Bob Brookmeyer and Zoot Sims, Mulligan found soloists with the same high degree of invention and melodic development that he possessed. The light buoyant swing of Peck Morrison and Dave Bailey without the weight of a chordal instrument was inspiring to the soloists and a joy for the listener.

But the most compelling characteristic of this sextet was Mulligan's ability to write brilliant arrangements for a small group that possessed the drive and intricacy of a big band.

After three productive sessions in September/October 1955, material was selected for "Presenting The Gerry Mulligan Sextet," the first release by the group and Mulligan's first release on a major label, Mercury's Emarcy imprint. The music was hailed as a critical success and the sextet was generally considered the perfect vehicle for Mulligan; it had four melody voices for the intricate and varied arrangements and still allowed the looseness and interplay of a small group setting. However, record sales didn't reflect the success of the music.

When Peck Morrison left at the end of '55, Gerry Mulligan hired bassist Bill Crow who'd spent much of the early fifties with Stan Getz and Marian McPartland. The team of Crow and Bailey would remain with Mulligan through a variety of ensembles including the Concert Jazz Band until 1964. The next session on January 25, 1956 would be Eardley's last with Mulligan. He left the group at end of its European spring tour and was generally inactive until 1963 when he moved to Belgium and resumed his career in Europe.

Don Ferrara, a former member of Woody Herman's orchestra and frequent collaborator with Lee Konitz, joined the sextet in time for its final Emarcy session on September 26, 1956. He would later be a charter member of Gerry's Concert Jazz Band (1960-'62).

The sextet did not last long beyond this session. Mulligan paired back down to a quartet (Brookmeyer, Crow and Bailey) and hit the road. Emarcy pulled one more sextet album together from the 1956 sessions entitled "Mainstream Of Jazz." Again the music was met with critical acclaim and commercial indifference. With the sextet and his major label contract over, Mulligan returned to the quartet format and to Pacific Jazz Records.

The sextet became the stuff of legends and many wonderful performances from the five Bob Shad-produced Emarcy sessions sat in a tape vault. In the early '60s, perhaps because of the acclaim of the Concert Jazz Band, Mercury's producer Jack Tracy returned to this material to create a third album "A Profile Of Gerry Mulligan."

Finally in 1984, Kiyoshi Koyama scoured the vault and rescued two more albums worth of material from the sessions which he issued in Japan as "Mainstream Of Jazz" volumes two and three. Ira Gitler's wonderful liner notes for those albums (reprinted here) provide a wealth of information about the group, the individual musicians and the individual pieces.

With the advent of Compact Discs, this wonderful music faded further into obscurity. Only a dozen or so tracks made it to CD and usually only in Japan. Sixty years from the date of inception comes this Mosaic vinyl set with the complete works of the legendary and largely ignored Gerry Mulligan Sextet.

Features:
• Limited Edition - 3500 copies
• Individually Numbered
• 5LP Box Set
• 180g Vinyl
• Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
• Mastered from the original analog tapes
• Original liner and extensive notes by Ira Gitler
• Booklet

Musicians:

Jon Eardley, trumpet
Bob Brookmeyer, valve trombone, piano
Zoot Sims, tenor sax
Gerry Mulligan, baritone sax, piano
Peck Morrison, bass
Dave Bailey, drums

Selections:
LP 1
Side A:

1. Mud Bug
2. Sweet And Lovely
3. Apple Core
4. Nights At The Turntable
Side B:
1. Broadway
2. Everything Happens To Me
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Bernie’s Tune

LP 2
Side C:

1. Elevation
2. Mainstream
3. Ain’t It The Truth
Side D:
1. Igloo
2. Blue At The Roots
3. Lollypop

LP 3
Side E:

1. Makin’ Whoopee
2. Demanton
3. Duke Ellington Medley
Moon Mist
In A Sentimental Mood
Side F:
1. Westwood Walk
2. La Plus Que Lente
3. Blues

LP 4
Side G:

1. Blues (first version)
2. The Lady Is A Tramp (first version)
3. Demanton (first version
Side H:
1. Broadway (first version)
2. Sweet And Lovely (short version)
3. Bernie’s Tune (short version)
4. Blues (alternate take)

LP 5
Side I:

1. Broadway (alternate take)
2. Demanton (alternate take)
3. Everything Happens To Me (alternate take 1)
Side J:
1. Everything Happens To Me (alternate take 2)
2. The Lady Is A Tramp (alternate take)
3. Westwood Walk
4. La Plus Que Lente (first version)


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