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Great news. I know that Michael had this material on his wish list when Mosaic was first founded. Those idiots at Verve always had "plans" for it. I fact Tod, your parrot would have made an excellent Verve exec - "have plans, have plans, bwawk, bwawk.

Glad to see the deal is signed and sealed. Perhaps this could lead to a few more Verve controlled sets.

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Great news. I know that Michael had this material on his wish list when Mosaic was first founded. Those idiots at Verve always had "plans" for it. I fact Tod, you're parrot would have made an excellent Verve exec - "have plans, have plans, bwawk, bwawk.

Glad to see the deal is signed and sealed. Perhaps this could lead to a few more Verve controlled sets.

Ed, funny you should mention the Bird. He's got an interview with Blue Note next month...... ;)

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Perhaps this could lead to a few more Verve controlled sets.

And perhaps this is the golden lining inside the silver cloud of recent Verval actiontivities?

One can but hope that somebody with some sense has an ear over there now.

Maybe Mark got a promotion!

(Is there justice in this world, even though it be fleeting? Tell me no questions and I'll ask you no lies...)

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Good news I guess.  Did they mention anything previously unreleased added to the set?

This is good news, but I thought the set might have been larger. Off the top, I believe there were at least 4 or 5 Verve LP's of the Mulligan Concert Band. So that means there may some, but not a whole lot of new material on this set. I was kind of hoping for a treaure trove of unreleased material from the Vanguard, or from any of the live sessions, for that matter. But apparently it's not to be. Still, it will be great to have this on CD, as my LP's are a bit worn.

On the other hand, it just struck me. Perhaps this set will be just the live material (most likely) or just the studio material. If they have split it up like that, then we might get a lot of new material. But I think it's most likely that it will be a complete set, both live and studio. Just have to wait and see. In any case, a must purchase.

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I'm afraid I'm completely ignorant of the Mulligan Concert Band. Can somebody shoot me some album titles, so I can look 'em up on AMG, or otherwise get hip to what should probably be something I'd be interested in??

Approximately when were they recorded (just a range of years will do fine)??

How big was/were the group(s)?

Somebody, somebody, please edumacate me, please!! :g

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Thanks Jim!!!

The two audio-samples from the last link you gave do sound interesting - and far more restrained than I had expected.

Actually, I'm sorry to admit that I really don't have much Mulligan in my collection. Nothing with him as a leader, and I think only a handful of things with him as a sideman. Birth of the Cool, of course, but besides that - I'm not sure what. I'm sure I do have a couple things, I think, but I'm hard pressed to remember anything specific.

Damn, I really do need to unpack my music one of these days. 75% of my CD's are still in boxes, from moving about 8 months ago, and I'm starting to forget what I own!!

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If there is nothing new on the Mosaic set, I'll stick to my LPs.

I have the Verve Concert Jazz Band albums and give them a

spin pretty often. Just love this music.

There were five Verve albums (Gerry Mulligan and the Concert

Jazz Band, GM and the CJB at Village Vanguard, A Concert in Jazz,

CJB on Tour, and Gerry Mulligan '63).

If Mosaic wants to do a complete Concert Jazz Band set they should

add the DRG album Judy Holliday/Gerry Mulligan which had the CJB

accompanying the singing actress.

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This is what I got from Mosaic (sent them a mail yesterday asking about the contents of the Mulligan set)

So there IS some unreleased stuff included. And it seem they're able to pack it on 4 CDs because they might for a change put more than 60 minutes on each CD...

Anyway, it's great news, of course.

ubu

DISC ONE

#1-8 Gerry Mulligan The Concert Jazz Band V6-8388

#9-12 unissued bonus tracks from same sessions

DISC TWO

Gerry Mulligan And The Concert Jazz Band On Tour: Guest Soloist Zoot

Sims

V6-8438

with three unissued bonus track

DISC THREE

#1-6 Gerry Mulligan And The Concert Jazz Band At The Village Vanguard

V6-8396

#7-12 Gerry Mulligan Presents A Concert In Jazz V6-8415

DISC FOUR

#1-8 Gerry Mulligan '63 The Concert Jazz Band V6-8515

#9-12 unissued bonus tracks from same sessions

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brownie: another question on Mulligan CJB: do you know where I could find the RTF-set (I think it's 2 CDs) that is mentioned every now and then Mulligan is discussed?

And another one you might be interested: TCB (www.tcb.ch) issued a disc called "Concert Jazz Big Band Zurich 1960" which is quite nice:

SWISS RADIO DAYS JAZZ SERIES VOL. 12

Gerry Mulligan bs/leader

Conte Candoli tp, Nick Travis tp, Don Ferrara tp, Zoot Sims ts, Bob Donovan as, Gene Quill cl/as, Jim Reider ts, Gene Allan cl/bs, Bob Brookmeyer v-tb, Willi Dennis tb, Alan Raph b-tb, Buddy Clark b, Mel Lewis dr

TCB 02122

ubu

(by the way, if you check this "Swiss Radio Days" series: the Jones-Lewis disc is a stunner!)

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Ubu, I know about the Mulligan SwissRadio CD but it has eluded

me so far.

Would gladly trade it against the Mulligan CJB in Paris

2CD set. I see that one off an on in secondhand shops. We're talking

about the Europe 1 concert 2CD (RTF had nothing to do with this)?

The TCB label has indeed issued excellent albums.

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This is good news, but I thought the set might have been  larger. Off the top, I believe there were at least 4 or 5 Verve LP's of the Mulligan Concert Band. So that means there may some, but not a  whole lot of new material on this set. I was kind of hoping for a treaure trove of unreleased material from the Vanguard, or from any of the live sessions, for that matter. But apparently it's not to be.

Here is a quote from the liner notes of the "Village Vanguard" album :

"Although several nights were recorded, Mulligan decided to select the album's final takes from one Sunday afternoon in order to maintain a consistency of mood."

So there must be some unreleased material in the Verve vaults which won't be included in the Mosaic box. Unless those tapes have been lost as so many others...

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Concert in the Rain was the earliest MCBB recorded date to be released

Prior to this the band had recorded a bunch of titles( 11 plus a version of I'm Gonna Go Fishin') for verve the last day of May, first three of june but these were never issued. ( Fishin' may have been the 2 sided 45 rpm single that was the first I ever heard of the band.

Some titles were re - recorded and released on the official first album on verve.

The books list 12 more titles from Santa Monica an 8 from the Village Vanguard.

and a couple of unreleased concert tracks. From Ubus list it looks like we are getting some, but not all of the previously unreleased recordings.

If the select were to include all these.. plus the early June sets, I suspect more than 4 CDs would be required.. Still getting a comprehensive set of CDs to replace my well used LP's is still something to look forward to.

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jazzcd uk indexThose RTE's are being sold off in the cutout bins around here. I know I've see the Clarke Bolands, and maybe the Ellington recently. The rest were esily available a couple of months ago. You might want to cgheck stores that specialise in these. Also a lot of these are also being released on European Laserlights.

jazzcd uk index

have the 2cd laselight for 7.99 pounds that's about $12 - 13 .00

there descriptions are limited so make sure you go for the Laserlight or you may duplicate something you have, or coming up in the Mosaic

They also list a Zurich 1960 which is probably the Swiss Radio Days.

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  • 9 years later...

For those who can't get enough of the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band material (I am one of those...), FreshSound is releasing a double CD of the complete October 1960 concert by the CJB at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. 6 of the 19 titles performed then were included in the Mosaic set, the rest is given its first release now.

http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/gerry_mulligan_and_the_concert_jazz_band_-_santa_monica_1960._guest_soloist_zoot_sims-cd-5724.html

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For those who can't get enough of the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band material (I am one of those...), FreshSound is releasing a double CD of the complete October 1960 concert by the CJB at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. 6 of the 19 titles performed then were included in the Mosaic set, the rest is given its first release now.

http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/gerry_mulligan_and_the_concert_jazz_band_-_santa_monica_1960._guest_soloist_zoot_sims-cd-5724.html

:smirk:

Always making us dip into our pockets, eh?

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Thanks for the hint!!!

:lol:

I saw it in the FSR mail, but didn't check the discographical details and thought it was all included in the Mosaic box.

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For those who can't get enough of the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band material (I am one of those...), FreshSound is releasing a double CD of the complete October 1960 concert by the CJB at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. 6 of the 19 titles performed then were included in the Mosaic set, the rest is given its first release now.

I wonder why the whole concert wasn't on the Mosaic set?

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