Gerry Mulligan

**Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan** (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. He was born in New York City.

Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments.  Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 until they broke up in 1976.

Mulligan died of problems caused by knee surgery while suffering from liver cancer on January 20, 1996 at a hospital in Darien, Connecticut at the age of 68.

### As leader

- 1950:  _The Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Gerry Mulligan with the Chubby Jackson Big Band_ - The big band sides are from 1950, the band led by bassist Jackson included Howard McGhee, Zoot Sims, and trombonist J. J. Johnson. The quartet sides, with Chet Baker were recorded at two sessions in 1952.
- 1951:  _Historically Speaking_
- 1951: _Mulligan Plays Mulligan_ - Mulligan's first session as leader
- 1953: _The Original Quartet With Chet Baker_ -2-CD collection of the recordings of the pianoless quartet with Chico Hamilton for Pacific Jazz
- 1953:  _Konitz Meets Mulligan_ (with Chet Baker)
- 1954: _Gerry Mulligan quartet: Pleyel Concert_ - (2 CD, with Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb.), Red Mitchell (b), Frank Isola (d)
- 1956:  _At Storyville_ ( Quartet, live in Boston, Mulligan plays piano on some tracks,
- 1957:  _Reunion with Chet Baker_
- 1957: _Mulligan Meets Monk_ (with Thelonious Monk as co-leader)
- 1957:  _Blues in Time_ (Quartet with Paul Desmond Verve records, released on CD as _Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet_)
- 1957: _Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi_ (with Stan Getz (t.sax), Lou Levy (p), Ray Brown (b), Stan Levey (d).
- 1958: _Jazz Giants '58_ (Verve)
- 1958:  _What Is There to Say?_
- 1959:  _Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster_ (with Ben Webster (t.sax), Jimmy Rowles (p), Leroy Vinnegar (b), Mel Lewis (d).
- 1960:  _Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard_ (with a big band driven by drummer Mel Lewis)
- 1962: _Live at the Olympia Paris_
- 1962: _The Gerry Mulligan Quartets -  Complete Studio Rec._ with Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb & p) /Chet Baker (trp), Bill Crow/Henry Grimes (b), Gus Johnson/Dave Bailey (d).
- 1963: _Jeru_ (with Tommy Flanagan, Ben Tucker, Dave Bailey)
- 1963: _The Great Gerry Mulligan_ (Crown Records)
- 1963: _Night Lights_ (with trumpeter Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb), Jim Hall (g).
- 1964: _Feelin' Good_ (Limelight Records)
- 1964: _Complete Studio Recordings- The Gerry Mulligan Sextet_ with  Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim Hall (g), Bill Crow (b), Dave Bailey (d).
- 1965: _If You Can't Beat 'Em,Join 'Em, (Limelight Series)
- 1970: _Live at the Berlin Philharmonie_ (with the Dave Brubeck Trio)
- 1971: _Age of Steam_ Gerry Mulligan and his Orchestra
- 1974: _Summit_ with Ástor Piazzolla (bnd), Angel Pocho Gatti (p), Giuseppe Prestipino (Pino Presti) (elb), Tullio De Piscopo (d), Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (1st violin) and Strings Orchestra.
- 1974: _Gerry Muligan/Chet Baker: Carnegie Hall Concert_ (with Chet Baker (trp), Ed Byrne (trb), Bob James (p), John Scofield (g), Ron Carter (b), Harvey Mason (d), Dave Samuels (vb).
- 1976: _Gerry Mulligan meets Enrico Intra_  with Enrico Intra (p), Giancarlo Barigozzi (f), Sergio Farina (g), Pino Presti (b),  Tullio De Piscopo (d)
- 1990: _Lonesome Boulevard_
- 1992: _Re-Birth of the Cool_
- 1993: _Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan: Live at MCG_ (live, with pianist Billy Taylor at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG) in Pittsburgh)
- 1993:  _Paraiso_ with Brazilian singer Jane Duboc
- 1995:  _Dragonfly'' The final recordings