{"id":4356,"date":"2013-01-05T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2013-01-05T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T17:54:21","slug":"cd-gerry-mulligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/01\/cd-gerry-mulligan\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Gerry Mulligan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshsoundrecords.com\/gerry_mulligan_and_the_concert_jazz_band_-_santa_monica_1960._guest_soloist_zoot_sims-cd-5724.html\"target=\"_blank\">Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band, Santa Monica 1960<\/a><\/em><\/a> (Fresh Sound)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4357\" alt=\"Mulligan Santa Monica\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mulligan-Santa-Monica.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mulligan-Santa-Monica.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mulligan-Santa-Monica-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mulligan-Santa-Monica-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>Mulligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Concert Jazz Band had three fewer musicians than most big jazz outfits. Its size permitted precision, flexibility and subtlety, yet the band had the power of sprung steel. In this concert from a half century ago, the CJB is as fresh as yesterday. Arrangements by Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Cohn and Johnny Mandel set standards to which big band writers still aspire. Bassist Buddy Clark and drummer Mel Lewis inspired Mulligan, Brookmeyer, Conte Candoli, Gene Quill and Zoot Sims to some of the best soloing of their careers. This beautifully produced issue of the complete concert is a basic repertoire item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band, Santa Monica 1960 (Fresh Sound) Mulligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Concert Jazz Band had three fewer musicians than most big jazz outfits. Its size permitted precision, flexibility and subtlety, yet the band had the power of sprung steel. In this concert from a half century ago, the CJB is as fresh as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4357,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","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=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}