The swing and bop start right here on this legendary 1959 session between baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and tenor man Ben Webster. The opening track, Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge," is lush and emotional and truly sets the tone for this album. With Jimmy Rowles on piano (his intro on "Sunday" sounds like a ragtimer like Willie "The Lion" Smith just pushed him off the stool before the band came in), Mel Lewis on drums, and always superb Leroy Vinnegar on bass pr...   [ read more ]

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Gerry Rafferty is a huge talent, but a reluctant star. Management struggles and sundry other hindrances limited his output, but couldn't avert the Scot from releasing two legendary singles -- the Tarantino-ized "Stuck in the Middle With You" and the unforgettable "Baker Street," the latter included on this record. Just a glimpse of John Patrick Byrne's cool cover art lets the listener know City to City houses Rafferty's day in the sun as he conquers the world one metropolis at a time, ...   [ read more ]

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British jazzman Vic Lewis made his first recording in London in 1937. Since then, he has built a huge discography of recordings, taking up more than 12 pages in Tom Lord's {-The Jazz Discography}. Sprinkled among them are recordings he made in the U.S. with American jazzmen, mostly on the West Coast. Here he is with his West Coast All-Stars paying tribute to Gerry Mulligan as composer. Lewis had long used Mulligan's charts for his own band and recorded an album of Mulligan's music in 1...   [ read more ]

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