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Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet

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Released
  
1957

Release date
  
1957

Label
  
Chameleon Archive

Length
  
37:45

Producer
  
Richard Bock

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
January 23 & 30 and February 1, 1953

Studio
  
The Haig, Hollywood, California unknown studio and Phil Turetsky's House, Los Angeles, California

Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1953)
  
Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 2 (1953)

Artists
  
Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz

Similar
  
Lee Konitz albums, Jazz albums

Almost like being in love lee konitz plays with the gerry mulligan quartet


Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (also released as Konitz Meets Mulligan) is a compilation album by saxophonist and bandleader Gerry Mulligan's Quartet with Lee Konitz featuring performances recorded in early 1953 which were originally released on 10 inch LPs Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Lee Konitz and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet on the Pacific Jazz label along with previously unreleased tracks and alternate takes.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn called it "A simply wonderful pairing of idiosyncratic talents".

Track listing

  1. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Johnny Mercer) – 3:36 Originally released on PJLP 10
  2. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 3:01 Originally released on PJLP 2
  3. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:08
  4. "These Foolish Things" (Jack Strachey, Holt Marvell, Harry Link) – 3:15 Originally released on PJLP 10
  5. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:55
  6. "Bernie's Tune" (Bernard Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:32 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:50 Originally released on PJLP 10
  8. "Sextet" (Gerry Mulligan) – 2:59 Originally released on PJLP 2
  9. "Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henry J. Wood) – 2:54 Originally released on PJLP 10
  10. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Clarence Gaskill) – 3:05 Originally released on PJLP 2
  11. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:38 Originally released on PJLP 2
  12. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" [alternate take] (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 1:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at the Haig, Los Angeles California on January 23, 1953 (tracks 1–6) at an unidentified studio in Los Angeles, California. on January 30, 1953 (tracks 7–9) and at Phil Turetsky's home studio, Los Angeles, California on February 1, 1953 (tracks 10–12)

    • Personnel

  • Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
  • Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone
  • Chet Baker – trumpet
  • Joe Mondragon (tracks 10–12), Carson Smith (tracks 1–9) – bass
  • Larry Bunker – drums

    • Songs

    1Too Marvellous for Words3:44
    2Lover Man3:07
    3I'll Remember April4:15

    References

    Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet Wikipedia
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