Gerry Mulligan
Mulligan Meets Monk (PWR 27368)
Mulligan Meets Monk
Gerry Mulligan
Poll Winners Records
8436559464291
PWR 151902
PWR 27368
JAZZ
1
INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACK
This release contains the complete original album "Mulligan Meets Monk" (Riverside RLP12-247), which marked the only studio collaboration ever between jazz masters Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk. All of the other songs recorded during the dates but not included on the original LP have also been added here as a bonus, as well as an extended version of “Now’s the Time” recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, featuring both musicians.
PERSONNEL:
GERRY MULLIGAN, baritone sax
THELONIOUS MONK, piano
WILBUR WARE, bass
SHADOW WILSON, drums
New York, August 12 & 13, 1957.
(*) BONUS TRACK:
Gerry Mulligan (bar), Thelonious Monk (p), Miles Davis (tp),
Zoot Sims (ts), Percy Heath (b), Connie Kay (d).
Newport Jazz Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, July 17, 1955.
INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET
TRACKS:
01. ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT
02. RHYTHM-A-NING
03. SWEET AND LOVELY
04. DECIDEDLY
05. STRAIGHT, NO CHASER
06. I MEAN YOU
07. DECIDEDLY (alt tk)
08. STRAIGHT, NO CHASER (alt tk)
09. I MEAN YOU (alt tk 1)
10. I MEAN YOU (alt tk 2)
11. NOW’S THE TIME (*)
TOTAL TIME: 74:39 Min.
