"Jeru" is a nickname Miles Davis came up with for baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan in the late 1940s when they were rehearsing the Miles Davis Nonet. The recordings they made between 1949 and 1950 ...

Pianist Andrew Hill (1931-2007) and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) were revered figures in their time, but as jazz in the 21st century progresses, their influence has grown—albeit in ...

The hot music topic in Los Angeles last week was the cool jazz of a gaunt, hungry-looking young (25) fellow named Gerry Mulligan, who plays the baritone saxophone. For the past three months, ...

On October 20, 21 and 22 of 1958, drummer Gene Krupa assembled a crack New York big band to record Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements for Verve. The idea was brilliant. The personnel on this ...

Mulligan once raised the idea of programming a season ‘where we just take all the segregation out of it, and just play the music the way we envisioned it when we were playing it.’ ...