{"id":3514,"date":"2012-04-06T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T00:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2012-04-06T19:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T02:58:48","slug":"mulligans-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/04\/mulligans-birthday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulligan&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <em>Rifftides<\/em> reader Hal Strack for the reminder that this is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mulligan-head-shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mulligan-head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mulligan head shot\" width=\"130\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3515\" \/><\/a> Gerry Mulligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. Mulligan would be 85. Here is the baritone saxophonist, composer, arranger and pianist at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 with a great edition of his quartet: Art Farmer, trumpet; Bill Crow, bass; Dave Bailey drums. They played Mulligan&#8217;s &#8220;As Catch Can.&#8221; The video is a clip from Bert Stern\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s film <em>Jazz On A Summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlgKLwhoVgI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>The closing announcement was by the Voice Of America&#8217;s Willis Conover.<\/p>\n<p><p>Gerry Mulligan died in January of 1996. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Rifftides reader Hal Strack for the reminder that this is Gerry Mulligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. Mulligan would be 85. Here is the baritone saxophonist, composer, arranger and pianist at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 with a great edition of his quartet: Art Farmer, trumpet; Bill Crow, bass; Dave Bailey drums. They played Mulligan&#8217;s &#8220;As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}