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Gerry Mulligan
American
Musician
About the author
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Money
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Life
#Being
If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Want
#Sense
I've appeared on some other people's albums.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#People
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Wit
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Years
#Writing
#Fact
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Writing
#Italy
You 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.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#First
#Listening
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Jobs
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Composers
The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Success
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Play
#Reason
#First
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Jazz
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Songs
New York is still where I live most of the time.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Time
Now, 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.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Now
#Dance
#Jazz
#Tradition
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#People
#Music
#Fancy
People 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.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Talk
#Time
#People
#Nonsense
In 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.
Gerry Mulligan,
American
Musician
#Play
#First
#Fact
#Listening
#Awareness