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The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker (1996)
Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan
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Lead Performances: Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan
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West Coast jazz of the 1950s was often a fairly anemic genre, but two incredibly lyrical players helped to turn it into a music of limpid beauty: baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and trumpeter Chet Baker. Backed only by bass and drums, Mulligan and Baker filled the air with well-contoured melodies and gently sensual tones. In their legendary time as a team, they swung with butterfly grace. A
Posted Aug 02, 1996
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