{"id":7172,"date":"2015-12-18T23:41:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T07:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7172"},"modified":"2015-12-19T08:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T16:06:29","slug":"weekend-extra-mulligan-baker-in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/12\/weekend-extra-mulligan-baker-in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Mulligan &#038; Baker In The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Crow now and then allows me to borrow an anecdote from his Band Room column in <em>Allegro<\/em>, the monthly publication of New York Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an item from his December column.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Gerry Mulligan formed a quartet in Los Angeles and hired Chet Baker on trumpet, the musical chemistry between them produced some wonderful results. One night Dick Bock visited the Haig, the club where they were playing, and asked Gerry if he <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mulligan-Baker-by-Claxton.jpg\" alt=\"Mulligan, Baker by Claxton\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/>could sell him a record. Gerry told Bock that the group hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recorded yet, and Bock said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, how much does it cost to make a record?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d When he found out that it could be done for just a few hundred dollars, he got the quartet into a recording studio, and the Pacific Jazz label was born. It went on to successfully record many West Coast jazz groups.<\/p>\n<p>The Mulligan Quartet records were an immediate hit. Everyone was amazed at the interplay between the two horns, and the inventiveness of their soloing. Someone remarked to Gerry, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I understand that Chet doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know anything about harmony.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gerry replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He knows everything about harmony! He just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the names of the chords.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evidence to support Mulligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s answer about Chet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s harmonic knowledge.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/57geAOGtQcY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Funhouse.&#8221; Gerry Mulligan, baritone saxophone; Chet Baker, trumpet; Carson Smith, bass; Larry Bunker, drums. At the Haig, L.A., 1953, included in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Complete-Pacific-Recordings-Gerry-Mulligan\/dp\/B000006L9F\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;keywords=gerry%20mulligan%20chet%20baker%20complete%20pacific%20jazz&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1450508949&#038;s=music&#038;sr=1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">this collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks to Bill for permission to use his work. For his entire column, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.local802afm.org\/2015\/12\/december-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Crow now and then allows me to borrow an anecdote from his Band Room column in Allegro, the monthly publication of New York Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an item from his December column. When Gerry Mulligan formed a quartet in Los Angeles and hired Chet Baker on trumpet, the [&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-7172","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\/7172","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=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}