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Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Recorded	Aug 16, 1952 & Apr 30, 1953
Label	World Pacific Records
Released	1952
Personnel	6 credited players
Discogs	master 344227

The record

Baritone and trumpet trade lines over bass and drums alone, Mulligan and Baker inventing a chamber-jazz shorthand that needed no piano at all. The template for West Coast cool starts right here.

Session personnel

Gerry Mulligan — baritone saxophone
Bob Whitlock — bass
Carson Smith — bass
Chico Hamilton — drums
Larry Bunker — drums
Chet Baker — trumpet

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 67 pressings on file.

1952	Pacific Jazz · PLJP-1 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album earliest on file
1952	Pacific Jazz · EP4-1 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1952	Pacific Jazz · EP4-1 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1952	Pacific Jazz · EP4-1 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1952	Pacific Jazz · EP4-1 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1953	Fantasy · EP-4008 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1953	Fantasy · 3-6 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album
1953	Fantasy · 3-6 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Mono, Red Translucent
1953	Fantasy · 3-6 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Purple Translucent
1953	Pacific Jazz · EP4-2 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1953	Pacific Jazz · EP4-7 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Album, EP
1953	Pacific Jazz · PJLP-5 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album
1953	Fantasy · 3-6 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Green Translucent
1953	Fantasy · FT-2 — Reel-To-Reel, 7 ½ ips, ¼", 2-Track Mono, 5" Cine Reel, Album