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Gerry Mulligan / Paul Desmond Quartet

Title: Blues in Time

Label: Fresh Sound

Cat No:FSRCD519
Format:CD

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• Reissue of the inspired, rare 1957 ‘Blues in Time’ album - plus two tracks left off the original Verve LP. The famous ‘pianoless’ line-up was: Gerry Mulligan (bars), Paul Desmond (as), Joe Benjamin (b), and Dave Bailey (d).

• Five tracks were recorded at Capitol Studios, Hollywood on August 2nd 1957, and the other four on August 27th at Fine Sound Studio, New York.

• Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond were two of the most mischievous men in jazz,kindred spirits united in their wit, sense of humour and approach to music. There was a genuine fellow feeling between them, an affinity that extended beyond playing in time or fitting lines together.

• However, as might be expected of any group that featured Gerry with a piano-less rhythm section, this unit took on the informal personality of a Mulligan quartet; there were a couple of planned unison lines, but arrangement was kept to a minimum. And, as befits such a spectacularly happy union, it produced spontaneous creative combustion of the first order, full of excitement and felicitous surprises.

Track Listing for Blues in Time
1. Blues In Time
2. Body and soul
3. Stand Still
4. Line For Lyons
5. Wintersong
6. Battle Hymn Of The Republican
7. Fall Out
8. Lover
9. Tea For Two

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Blues in Time