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Gerry Mulligan & The Concert Jazz Band
Santa Monica 1960

Album ES 2012 on Fresh Sound Records label
Jazz

This is the exciting Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band that held the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium spellbound in October 1960--a "live" recording that shows why the CJB was acclaimed for its unity and cohesion. By contemporary standards, this was a "small" big band, made up of thirteen men, performing according to Mulligan's very definite idea of how a band should work and sound. Though studded with stellar names, it was a close-knit team, with Zoot Sims as the featured guest soloist, There was room to stretch, but when the time came to get together, the boys were there. "My idea is not so much that we are a big band with a small-band feel, but that we have a big-band feel in the way that a big bandought to be," said Mulligan. "Our Santa Monica concert had a driving quality that I think was in great part the result of the fact that the audience was loaded with many of our friends and fellow-musicians." The fine Mosaic box set of the CJB included six of the 19 performances recorded at Santa Monica, but this two-CD set issues, in excellent sound quality, the complete concert for the first time ever!

Musicians

	Gerry Mulligan & The Concert Jazz Band , album by
	Bob Donovan as, US alto saxophone
	Gerry Mulligan bs, 1927-1996 US baritone saxophone, piano
	Gene Allen bs, bcl, 1928-2008 US baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
	Buddy Clark b, US bass
	Alan Raph tb, *1933 US bass trombone
	Gene Quill as, 1927-1988 US clarinet, alto saxophone
	Mel Lewis dr, 1929-1990 US drums
	Bob Brookmeyer tb, 1929-2011 US piano, valve trombone
	Jim Reider ts, US tenor saxophone
	Zoot Sims ts, 1925-1985 US tenor saxophone
	Willie Dennis tb, 1926-1965 US trombone
	Conte Candoli tr, 1927-2001 US trumpet
	Don Ferrara tr, 1928-2011 US trumpet
	Nick Travis tr, 1925-1964 US trumpet

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