Gerry Mulligan - Walking Shoes - 1956

[funkydrummer14]

The first record Charlie Watts ever bought!

[aeffron]

the original quartet with Chet & Chico -owned- this song

[Jonnyferrari202]

Haha this is not swinging at all...that's not really jazz....not at it's full potential!

[nanomartin]

I've found the Periodic Table of Jazz. Fantastic!

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[octipops1]

at age 16, ive been told im the next gerry mulligan by many a musician, and i always correct them by saying, ill only reach that once i let go, relax and just let it flow. if any jazzers understand what i mean, cool. until all that happons, ill never be up to PAR with the greats

[Kovalsky123]

Cazzo canzone stupenda! :)



[snowdude1080]

wow how does he get that smooth tone?! i have a pretty rasp harsh attacks for marching band but i want something chill and laid back for jazz, anyone care to help?

[bongloadz4satan]

@snowdude1080 you just got to make sure you ease into the notes, use the tip of your tounge with a strong constant stream of air, thats what i do and it works for jazz and for marching band

[Drummykins]

@bongloadz4satan Thanks! Roland Kirk did it, I learned it decades ago, forgot the technique...I'll be woodshedding that! Bless you and yours!

[rickygervais1776]

@snowdude1080 Just chill and lay back! Lighten up on the tongue and loosen up on the mouthpiece. Develop your own embouchure...the one you learn in school is just a basic guideline. There are no rules to how you position your mouth. Also play around with differerent reeds. Maybe you need to go thicker.

[TehPwnator]

Hes passionately making out with that saxophone and this is the sound it produces

[6065vsf]

wow! amazing style!

[Maurinhuoo]

How about Miles Davis?

[jacktala1]

i love gerry and zoot.  man @jplent! i wish i was there...or born, youre very fortunate!. this is puda vida jazz!

[Aidanrice206]

SUPERBONE!!!!!!!!

[jazzharp1]

Very cool!

[docnshe]

magic , we will neverhave such Genius in the Jazz field again  Thanks Gerry iv choked ...Dengie john

[juanluengo]

Esta es una de las composiciones mas famosas de Gerry mulligan en la que el toca el sasofon baritono con su sexteto sin piano. Es sensacional. Gracias por poner este video.+++++

[docnshe]

Mulligan Magic...they dont make em like him any more

[KishoAudioVisual]

Garry ... best Bari ... amazing sound.

[stefsue6]

I want to be that cool on bari :D

[jplent]

no piano...nice.

[theoriginalbadbob]

@jplent I saw the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, in '63, at Royce Hall at U.C.L.A. Brookmeyer was the other "horn." I was in the center of the 2nd row. I got there early and, seeing a piano on the stage, thought that some fool had left it there by mistake. After they had played a few numbers, Gerry sat down at the piano and played 2 or 3 songs with the group. A few songs after that, BOB sat down and played piano for a couple of songs. Pianoless quartet? Not exactly.

[jplent]

@theoriginalbadbob Wow...

[nemo227]

@theoriginalbadbob Nice story, really. It always pleases me to be surprised by someone we "know" when they show us a different side. It's a reminder that there's always more than we might imagine.

[theinvisiblelight]

I want to sound like this guy. I double alto/bari.

[erty768]

we are playing this in my high school jazz band and i really wish that we could be this awesome

[daleam1]

Just an amazing performance. Thanks so much for posting this!

[19flipped]

Too bad people don't have a clue what good music is anymore...

[m3atwadsh0mb0i]

@19flipped perspective. back then people didnt know what good music was either. most jazz musicians were black, and at the time, people wouldn't even bother listening to music performed by black people, let alone put it on the radio. despite how great they were. ffs, just look at this video. i think i see one black guy on the drums.

[Drummykins]

@m3atwadsh0mb0i What? Back when? I knew those people like family, in my home as a child in Kansas City,and, if you must know, I happen to be a white chick! As Ben Webster said, "S**t, baby, soul don't have no color" Not know what good music was? I've heard and played more good and great music, luckiest chick in the Universe, and oh, yeah, still nailing it harder than ever! What color is the sky in your world? Grab that spacxeship home! Some folks here want dig the sounds!

[m3atwadsh0mb0i]

@Drummykins youre saying all this, and its coming from your own perspective. youre not taking into account the entire culture of the time period. why do you think a lot of popular jazz artists became broke heroin addicts? being a jazz artist, especially a black one in that time period, didnt make you much money.  soul doesnt have a color, but the radio station hosts of the time seemed to believe so.

[SAXcabreuva]

Muito bom som e com uma suavidade de dar inveja!

[marilou7itgr]

great jazz!i wish i lived in that years when music was great!

[Drummykins]

@marilou7itgr I did, and it was, and it's never left me! Hear them while you can!

[gcornielje]

Cool stuff!!

[paulostroff99]

awesome! A great group of players.

[123must]

Yes , this is the true and immortal jazz music. I love Zoot Sims!

[theoriginalbadbob]

My favorite musician playing my favorite instrument doesn't get any better. I saw the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, with Brookmeyer, in 1963 at Royce Hall at UCLA. I got there early, and saw that there was a piano on the stage. I thought that some fool had forgotten to take it off after whoever had last performed there. Wrong! Gerry sat down at the piano for two or three songs, and so did Brookmeyer. Both of them were great on the piano. What a rare treat. "What is There to Say?" is #1 .

[erikpsmith1]

Was this really 1956? I didn't think ties were this skinny in 1956. Clothing looks more Kennedy-administration to me.

[nemo227]

Yep, ties really were skinny then. This 71 year old will sell you a skinny tie from his closet. . . No, I don't know why I saved them.

Hey, I can still remember the name of the guy who played baritone sax in our high school dance band.

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

@nemo227 that's kool, you have to save things like that for others who love the style. I wear nothing but 1950's style clothing. stay hip brother.

[Drummykins]

@nemo227 yeah, and most cats I knew kept wearing them for decades...one I knew got his ancient frrayed skinny tie actually cut off by other guy in the band about 1967!

[polishpunk911]

Oh man, this guy died on the day I was born.

[BuckshotLaFunke]

Is that Chico Hamilton on drums?

[glene37]

@BuckshotLaFunke - No, it's Dave Bailey, and Bill Crow on bass.

[hispapop]

I used to think Gerry was black, a negro boy¡¡

[xoxitaliangirl94]

is this cool jazz?

[tobigost]

yes this is

[MissBari1]

Why do video and sound stop - at 3:58?

:((

Please help - I just love this tune!

[nuclear944]

Probably stops because it is half a century old...

[TheTealeaftosh]

I hope Gabriel digs this style of jazz.coz if he don't i ain't goin' up there !

[natetheskate98]

wow i play the bari, i think im pretty good, but gerry is the greatest of all time

[jibsmokestack1]

@natetheskate98 Gerry is the most famous bari but GOAT. I disagree. That honor imo goes to Harry Carney. I would put Gerry behind Serge Chaloff, Leo Parker & Cecil Payne of the be-bop baris. His fame is because of his groups and his writings. Gerry's playing is not as original as Chaloff in particular who was one of the 'Four brothers' with Woody Herman's band, along with Getz, Sims, and Herbie Stewart. Mulligan was just an arranger for that legendary band!

[jibsmokestack1]

@jibsmokestack1 Also one must not forget Pepper Adams, who came after the original Be-bop baris, but whose hard swinging intense Bop playing captivates me more than Mulligans laid-back and more elegant. Also I think John Surman deserves a mention for developing a original post-Coltrane voice on Baritone. Very underrated imo, and I'm not just saying that cos I'm British!

[poopsicle45]

i love zoot's solo

[kuosakisasuke]

zoots my second favourite tenor player, i love his solo.

[afrosaxmann2009]

they make valve trombones too

[mmbnstarforce]

whats the guy playing on the left on 6:48? i thought trumbones has slides not keys

[TigerDude101]

bob brookmeyer plays valve trombone. dizzy gillespie invented them.

[SatchmoSings]

@TigerDude101 Dizzy Gillespie didn't invent the valve trombone, unless he did it when he was 14 years old; that's when, in August of 1929, Juan Tizol joined Duke Ellington.

Ellington liked the idea of a valve trombone that could play faster and more cleanly than the traditional slide trombone; Tizol could play in complete unison with the trumpets in up-tempo numbers with greater precision.

[aslr4t]

Most trombones are "slide trombones". They have slides. Not too uncommon are "valve trombones". They have valves. Its not too surprising that you hadn't seen a valve trombone, though. They have nearly identical tone but very different articulation. You can buy a trombone with both slide and valves, that you assemble into whichever of the two type you want.

[phleigm]

or there's the rare superbone, which uses both at once, the options for articulation are limitless!

[MsCharade09]

This is Mr. Bob Brookmeyer playing a Valve-Trombone or Bass-Trumpet

Regards Jens Fischer

[SatchmoSings]

@mmbnstarforce There are valve trombones and they're not called keys; they're valves. Wind instruments have keys; brass instruments have valves.

[leviathancalling]

@SatchmoSings brass instruments are wind instruments. i believe the word you were looking for is 'woodwind'. also, the keys are what we attach to valves on brass instruments and the pads on woodwind instruments. get off your high horse. ... you play trumpet, don't you?

[SatchmoSings]

@leviathancalling Uh, if you wish to make up your own definitions for words, go right ahead!

“Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration." Ayn Rand.

Sounds like you're well on your way!

[leviathancalling]

@SatchmoSings nice equivocation. let your stones drop.

[Willllllllllow]

That's Jazz!!!!!!

[AquabatZim]

Mulligan is absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!

[napobo3]

Gerry and Zoot look like twins here...

[snowgoose92]

gerry mulligan plays so.. correct.. it's not as exiting as e.g Coltrane or Micheal Brecker - And I know it is very different music, but still, just abit to correct! Eventhough he has some nice lines in this solo, I've got to admit!

[franco212]

mulligan plays so correct...obvious baritone sax is less manageable than tenor!!!!

[sewitt60]

franco212, Mulligan was good but listen to Pepper Adams, he was the best.

[alejnikov]

Try to listen to Leo Parker - just to prove you wrong. Parker did not only have the same family name as Bird, he also played as fast - on the bari.

[gamoonbat]

COOL!

[gsaxita]

Gerry Mulligan !!!!!

[jonathansmb]

thanks , great ,i want I may be worng please

bye

[cacklesan]

Gerry Mulligan kakkoii!!!!

[Willllllllllow]

C du lourd! Ptain les mecs y avaient la foi, y ils croyaient à leur musique, y souinguaient pour leur vie!! Revenez!!

[Willllllllllow]

C du lourd! Ptain lé mec y avaient la foi, y ils croyaient à leur musique, y souinguaient pour leur vie!! Revenez!!

[kodkodkod]

those are some very slick horn lines!

[shizzlenip]

i play bari sax and so far gerry mulligan is my main role model

[forgetmenot1937]

Only just thought to look for this!! I have the original 78 record from 55. sort of borrowed it from a boyfriend and didn't return it - shame on me. I had never heard anything like it at the time

[forgetmenot1937]

Only just thought to look for this!! I have the original 78 record from 55. sort of borrowed it from a boyfriend and didn't return it - shame on me. I had never heard anything like it at the time

[forgetmenot1937]

Only just thought to look for this!! I have the original 78 record from 55. sort of borrowed it from a boyfriend and didn't return it - shame on me. I had never heard anything like it at the time

[HenriMesquida]

So good.

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

Dream band, absolutely! Look at Jon Eardley's funny puffed out cheeks. Amazing! Zoot Sims, Bob Brookmeyer and of course Gerry Mulligan. What a line-up.

Thanks for posting,

Brewlligan

[theoriginalbadbob]

@BrunoJazzmanLeicht If you think THAT'S amazing, you've never seen Dizzy Gillespie puff out HIS cheeks.

[TheDreamMaker92]

assurdo..

[armadadrew101]

I play the barri, but damn, i could never be as good as Mr.M

[dkeymer]

I was turned on to Mulligan when I first heard him on record fifty-four years ago. I heard this version of the sextet play live on tour in Cleveland, Ohio. I've always liked Brookmeyer and Sims and I thought Eardley was a really interesting trumpet player. This isn't the best rhythm section --Mitchell and Hamilton were better-- but it's okay. Great arrangement and background comping.

[Shadeofthenight1]

This is so great!

[jsem94]

amazing bass

[saanzacs]

RIP Gerry Mulligan and Zoot Sims

[rockventures]

Fantastic.

[conditionalchoice]

This is probably my favourite version of "Walkin'Shoes" Great harmonies going on in there and smoooooth playing!

[oldpapajohn]

Cool Swinging Jazz..AH..those were the days.

Thank you.

[Tabla461]

I wish there was a video of the miles davis nonet.

[ezekielvictor]

swingin' SO hard. O_O

[Ideaboy13]

Niiiiice, i really love this type of song. I'm an alt sax player myself, catching up pretty fast, heheh.

[reddwarf1980]

In jazz we don't call them "songs" they are "tunes"

Gotta be up on the lingo

[7112koto2315]

かっこいィ

[captainculpepper1]

Captain culpepper. First fell in love with this in 1954 and i'm lucky enough to still be alive and here such a master in action by the way he was the most accoladed musician ever, in his day

[coops1939]

You wouldn't happen to be Carl Culpepper that was in the UK playing tenor sax with us English guys in the late 50's?

[basketballgirl258]

cool. im a bari sax jazz player. this is really neat.

[MagicRain505]

YES. THIS IS WHAT JAZZ IS. You don't need altered stuff to be called jazz. You need to SWING, MAN. This is it.

[valvetrom]

Please what do you  call"altered"stuff.??

[brewepau]

I love the brief and subtle flirtation with atonality at the end. Such cool scoring by Mulligan.

[gamoonbat]

Cool, baby!

[colonelhall]

"Walkiing Shoes" was the first jazz record that registered with me. My older sister had it on "Vogue". I still love it, andd it's great to see this video. These guys remain super cool!

[bobbysaget08]

valve trombone?! shoot!

he's still really good though :P they are amazing!

[valvetrom]

What you mean? still good though. Watch your language. You can play in mid and lower register what usually would send a slide trombone player to hospital with muscle spasms

unless your name is Jimmy Knepper.

[re6356]

Tremendous musicianship, improvisation on this scale underlines the quality of these guy`s musical technique.

[smikro1]

A classic by some of the great pioneers of "West Coast Jazz." Mulligan, a brilliant composer/arranger as well as instrumentalist, is one of my all-time favorites. Many thanks for posting this.

Those who wish to hear Mulligan play tenor sax should get the album, "Getz Meets Mulligan," recorded in 1957. These two greats switched instruments on the first several tracks. Mulligan had a terrific sound on tenor.

Now...let's see...where did I put my beret and that book by Jack Kerouac?

Ghs

[marcelcelmar]

love the piano-less context

[leaveittoprez]

OOOH, what a beautiful Zoot Sims' solo. Even this man's yawns must have swung. What a loss when he passed away.

[Drummykins]

@leaveittoprez Brookmeyer just died yesterday, I can't stop shrieking in grief...

[PlagueInfestedCheese]

at 2:03 Eardley looks like hes plotting something evil hahaha nah in all seriousness, thanks for this video, i may only be fifteen, but this kind of music really speaks to me, thanks again!

[pogomeister03]

Thank you so much for these Mulligan videos. I grew up with this stuff. Me an my Dad grooving to all Gerry's music. Thanks. Harry Himles

[klactv]

Great historic material! I agree with frankpearce about Bill Crow. In 1992 I interviewed Bob Brookmeyer in Rotterdam, where he lived for a short period. A highly erudite man with a sardonic sense of humor, honest and friendly too.

[brianbrora]

Classic Jazz from a classic period in Jazz music.

[frankpearce]

Great basslines by Bill Crow too.

[80sClone]

My granpa asked for this video when I introduced him to youtube a while ago. I must say, it's good even though I generally don't like jazz.

[saxophoney]

Great! Thanks much for posting this performance of a classic artist.

[theredonetoo]

Many thanks for these Mulligan Sextet Videos. More Please!!!