Gene Krupa

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This release presents the complete original 1958 album Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (Verve MGVS-6008). Krupa and Mulligan had known each other for more than a decade when this LP was made. Mulligan began collaborating with the Krupa band in 1946 and all of Krupa's other studio recordings of Mulligan arrangements have been added here as a bonus, including a Mulligan score of Indiana which wasn't repeated on the 1958 album, as well as five arrangements that were re-recorded more than ten years later.

PERSONNEL:

GENE KRUPA & His Orchestra

[1-12] Collective personnel:
Al DeRisi, Ernie Royal, Doc Severinsen, Stewart, Marky Markowitz (tp),
Eddie Bert, Jimmy Cleveland, Billy Byers, Urbie Green, Kai Winding (tb),
Sam Marowitz, Phil Woods (as), Frank Socolow, Wasserman (ts), Danny Bank (bar),
Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Jimmy Gannon (b), Gene Krupa (d),
Gerry Mulligan (arranger & conductor).

New York, Oct. 20-22, 1958.

Bonus Tracks [13-18] Gene & His Orchestra featuring:
Red Rodney (tp), Charlie Ventura (ts), Kennedy (as), Teddy Napoleon (p)
& Gene (d), among others. Los Angeles and New York 1946-47.

TRACKS:

01. Bird House
02. Margie
03. Mulligan Stew
04. Begin The Beguine
05. Sugar
06. Way Of All Flesh
07. Disc Jockey Jump
08. Birds Feather
09. Sometimes I'm Happy
10. How High Moon
11. If You Were Only Girl World
12. Yardbird Suite
13. Indiana*
14. Begin Beguine [A.V.] *
15. Bird House [V.]*
16. How High Moon [*
17. Jockey Jum [*
18. MarGie [*)

Total Time: 63:10