Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual Original Air Date: July 18, 1962 - - - Gerry Mulligan (Piano, Saxophone) Bob Brookmeyer (Trombone) Wyatt Ruther (Bass) Gus Johnson (Drums)
Must have been a ball.. hope you are doing fine and in good health. You deserve it! One of my all time favorite records is “at Storyville”.. you guys were awasome!
I never thought I would have the opportunity to thank the great BILL CROW for the jazz he has made and for the books full of stories and anecdotes that make a jazz fan's life more interesting and fun.
I concur. Long ago I came looking for this piece to no avail. I decided to upload it so people could listen, and for those who didn't know about Mulligan to have yet another chance to stumble upon him.
Growing up in San Francisco in the late 50's I used to go downtown to the old Blackhawk Club on Turk and Hyde Sts. to see Mulligan and his "piano-less" quartet. They'd let minors sit in back. Just loved it.
Yes to that! He made the bari sound not so much like a clarinet as like a cello. Or one could say he was the bari's Lester Young to Harry Carney's Coleman Hawkins. And to think we all used to ARGUE about who was better among all these giants whom time clearly has not replaced.
I don't know if all of Bob Brookmeyer's backgrounds were improvised, but he's the only person I know who consistently played counterpoint lines like that. You can always tell when it's him!
Thanks for posting this.It took me back a few years to the 50's when I saw the Quartet at the Royal Festival Hall in London.They played this tune and at the end of the Concert Gerry and Bob Joined forces with the British Jazz Today Unit for Jam Session.Heady Days!!
If you have the full video of the Jazz Casual Gerry Mulligan Quartet, can put the Four for Three music video. If you can even put the whole video I would really appreciate if you would do that.
What a time the 50's were! Every style that ever meant anything in jazz was active and thriving, and nearly all the practitioners were alive and still performing: Gerry and Bobby, Monk, Brubeck, Tristano, Bud Powell, Diz, Bird, Miles, but also Benny Goodman, Basie, Ellington, the Condon All Stars, Teagarden, and Louis Armstrong who, ALL those years in, was still playing immense horn. And in comedy too. On the one hand Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, and on the other Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Nichols & May. And when you got in late from work or a play or a concert, you could sit down with Jack Paar. And NOW? The musicians are dead, and we shall not see their likes again. And you can sit down with...Jimmy Fallon? We never thought much of Eisenhower, but he's a giant next to W and BHO.
I absolutely agree we will never ever have anything better. I'm 85 and still discovering gems from the fifties. I first heard Gerry when I was about 16 , memories!!!
Hi.it is a valve trombone.it has valves like a trumpet.not the slide bone.juan tizol from duke ellington was the guy that made valve bone famous.brookmeyer great one and also arranger !
A good trombone player can still play fast with the slide but it is a challenge. The other guys you play with only have to move their fingers. You really don't see valve trombones anymore (at least I can't think of anyone since Bob passed away).
