Description

As soon as Gerry Mulligans quartet arrived on the jazz scene in autumn 1952, it drew attention through the originality and freshness of its conception and its sonority, as well as through the members talent, both in their playing as a group and their improvisations.
The absence of the piano gave the quartet a wonderful lightness, an admirable transparency.
Mulligan wrote an impressive series of original titles and arrangements of famous standards, including venerable songs where he renewed the charm (Tea for Two, My Old Flame, Makin Whoopee, The Nearness of You).