Gerry Mulligan's Profile
Brief about Gerry Mulligan: By info that we know Gerry Mulligan was born at 1927-04-06. And also Gerry Mulligan is American Musician.
Some Gerry Mulligan's quotes. Goto "Gerry Mulligan's quotation" section for more.You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
Tags: Electric, Organ, SaxophoneIn fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
Tags: Fact, Happens, HimNow, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.
Tags: Band, Dance, ThreePeople talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.
Tags: Talk, Time, UnderstandYou start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.
Tags: Match, Start, TopActually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
Tags: Fact, Playing, WritingBecause if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Tags: Melody, Ultimately, WitEliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
Tags: Means, Players, WorkedI like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
Tags: Guys, Hear, PlayingI'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
Tags: Electronic, Fascinated, MessI've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Tags: Shouting, Top, WantedI've appeared on some other people's albums.
Tags: AlbumsIt's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Tags: Band, Rather, TrueOnly the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Tags: Great, Guess, OrchestraRelated topics
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