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The Gerry Mulligan Songbook Volume 1

Gerry Mulligan And The Sax Section

Recorded	Dec 4-5, 1957
Label	World Pacific Records
Released	1957
Personnel	8 credited players
Discogs	master 359659

The record

A saxophone summit built around Mulligan's own book, with Konitz, Sims, Cohn, and Eager trading reed textures over Freddie Green's unmistakable rhythm-guitar pulse. Baritone-led and brass-free, it's a cool-school reed clinic that shows Mulligan the composer as much as Mulligan the soloist.

Session personnel

Lee Konitz — alto saxophone
Allen Eager — alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Zoot Sims — alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Henry Grimes — bass
Dave Bailey — drums
Freddie Green — guitar
Al Cohn — tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
Gerry Mulligan — written-by, baritone saxophone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 20 pressings on file.

1958	World Pacific Records · PJ-1237 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove
—	World Pacific Records · PJ-1237 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · deep groove
1958	World Pacific Records · WP-1237 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1958	World Pacific Records · Stereo-1001 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1958	Music · LPM-2062 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	World Pacific Records · STEREO-1237 3000/3001 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1958	Vogue Records · LAE 12128 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1958	Disques Vogue · LDM. 30.088 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	World Pacific Records · STEREO-1001 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1959	Vogue Records · SEA 5006 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1959	Vogue Records · LAE 12128 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960	World Pacific Records · STEREO-1237 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1990	World Pacific Records · TOCJ-5365 — CD, Mono
1991	World Pacific Records — MONO