Description: Description Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music - Bookby Gerry Mulligan with Ken PostonSeries: BookMedia: BookPublication Date: 11-15-2022 Author: Gerry MulliganAuthor: Ken PostonPublisher: Globe Pequot/Backbeat Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music is an intimate chronicle of Gerry Mulligans life and career, told in his own words. This personal narrative reveals great insight into the musicians complex personality. He speaks freely about the important milestones in both his personal and professional life, bringing a new understanding to the man behind the music. Gerry Mulligan was one of the most important figures in the history of jazz. He was extremely influential as both a composer/arranger and as an instrumentalist. His career spanned an amazing six decades, beginning in the 1940s and continuing up to his death in 1996. Within that time, he worked with almost every major jazz figure, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie, as well as his own illustrious groups that featured the likes of Chet Baker, Bob Brookmeyer, Art Farmer, and Chico Hamilton. As a composer, his music was distinct and original. His melodies were masterpieces, logically structured and filled with wit and humor. As an arranger, his linear approach and clever use of counterpoint helped define a new standard for modern jazz orchestration. As an instrumentalist, he is the most significant baritone saxophonist in the history of jazz. Gerry Mulligan single-handedly established the baritone saxophone as a solo voice. As one of the great jazz innovators, his writing and playing influenced entire stylistic movements, including cool jazz and bossa nova. This is his story, the way he wanted it told. Width: 6" Length: 9" 360 pages Browse Our Related Categories: Visit our eBay Store
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Performing Arts
Series: Book
Brand: Globe Pequot/Backbeat
Type: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Book Title: Being Gerry Mulligan : My Life in Music
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Leonard Corporation, Hal
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: History & Criticism, Personal Memoirs, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Gerry Mulligan
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
