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Mulligan's band has been infected with his solid sense of swing, and what it does seems far more meaningful than most of the noise generated by the big concert aggregations.
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Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.
But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.
" By March 1959, Billboard noted that the popularity of the film and of Mandel's and Mulligan's albums " prompted a rush of jazz film scores ", and cited the signing of Duke Ellington to do the score for that year's Anatomy of a Murder, the release of The Five Pennies ( a biopic about the jazz band leader Red Nichols ), and a 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day,.
At the conclusion of Mulligan's three-month contract, Tucker told Mulligan that he should move on to another band that was a little less " tame ".
The band underwent several personnel changes, beginning with Mulligan's departure in 1965.
Mulligan's and has
* Noel Neill, later to portray Lois Lane on the TV series The Adventures of Superman, has a small role as an American art student who tries to criticize Jerry Mulligan's paintings.
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Mulligan apparently showed some sympathy for the prisoners because he had been treated with respect by Confederate General Sterling Price when Mulligan's regiment had been captured and paroled at the First Battle of Lexington, Missouri on September 19, 1861.
The most notable columns at Skotos have been Jessica Mulligan's Biting the Hand and a column by Richard Bartle, the father of modern MUD design ( and thus most MMORPGs and other online games ).
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He later worked with Jimmy Giuffre before rejoining Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band.
He frequently led his own combos and sometimes toured with his friend Gerry Mulligan's sextet, and later with Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band.
Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups.
While in Reading, Mulligan began studying clarinet with dance-band musician Sammy Correnti, who also encouraged Mulligan's interest in arranging.
Notable arrangements of Mulligan's work with Krupa include " Birdhouse ", " Disc Jockey Jump " and an arrangement of " How High the Moon " that quoted Charlie Parker's " Ornithology "
Baker's melodic style fit well with Mulligan's, leading them to create improvised contrapuntal textures free from the rigid confines of a piano-enforced chordal structure.
This fortuitous collaboration came to an abrupt end with Mulligan's arrest on narcotics charges in mid-1953 that led to six months at Sheriff's Honor Farm.
This quartet structure remained the core of Mulligan's groups throughout the rest of the 1950s with sporadic personnel changes and expansions of the group with trumpeters Jon Eardley and Art Farmer, saxophonists Zoot Sims, Al Cohn and Lee Konitz, and vocalist Annie Ross.
Mulligan's more serious work with orchestra began in May 1970 with a performance of Dave Brubeck's oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Symphony.
Throughout Mulligan's orchestral work and until the end of his life, Mulligan maintained an active career performing and recording jazz-usually with a quartet that included a piano.
Mulligan's final recording was a quartet album ( with guests ), Dragonfly, recorded in the Summer of 1995 and released on the Telarc label.
Mulligan's first film appearance was probably with Gene Krupa's orchestra playing alto saxophone in the 1946 RKO short film Follow That Music.
After the war, Melly found work in a London Surrealist gallery, working with E. L. T. Mesens and eventually drifted into the world of jazz, finding work with Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band.
Other details, such as Mulligan's Hellenism, his status as a medical student, his history of saving men from drowning, his friendship with George Moore, and the metrical arrangement of his full name ( Malachi Roland St. John Mulligan ) parallel Gogarty's biography.
Price's cannon responded to Mulligan's with nine hours of bombardment, utilizing heated shot in their endeavor to set fire to the Masonic College and other Federal positions.
Bravo also had a major program with Blackjack Mulligan, pinning Mulligan twice in a televised non-title match to set up a series of matches for Mulligan's United States title.
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While most of Mulligan's work for Kenton were pedestrian arrangements that Kenton needed to fill out money-making dance performances, Mulligan was able to throw in some more substantial original works along the way.
" Summing up Mulligan's talents as a whole, Truffaut concluded, " If there were French directors as lucid as Mulligan, as capable of telling something more than anecdotes, the image of our country on the screen would be a bit less oversimplified.
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Mulligan's most notable film role was as General Custer in Little Big Man, whom he portrayed as a borderline psychotic.
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Allmusic calls Mandel's album " one of the best jazz-inspired soundtracks around " and notes that Mulligan's album " features six themes from the movie ( all composed by Johnny Mandel ) performed by the same musicians, who this time around get an opportunity to really stretch out.
Mulligan's composition " Elevation " and his arrangement of " Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea " were recorded by Mulligan's old boss, Elliott Lawrence.
1988 saw the premier of Mulligan's Octet for Sea Cliff a chamber work commissioned by the Sea Cliff Chamber Players.
The Union infantry position remained clustered around the Valley Pike in Kernstown anchored by Col. James A. Mulligan's division on Pritchard's Hill, one of the keys to the Union success at the First Battle of Kernstown in 1862.
Mulligan's division bitterly held its ground at Opequon Church where its advance was halted by Gordon's men.
On September 13, six companies of the 13th Missouri Infantry ( USA ), supported by two companies of the 1st Illinois Cavalry, battled Price's advance elements among the tombstones in Machpelah Cemetery south of town, hoping to buy time for the rest of Mulligan's men to complete their defensive preparations.
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For subtle swinging rhythms, I could admire intensely Mulligan's version of `` Weep '', and the fireworks went on display in `` 18 Carrots For Robert '', a sax tribute to Johnny Hodges.
Some of Price's army used hemp bales as moving breastworks while they moved up the river bluffs and closed in on Mulligan's headquarters.
On September 20, 1861, Mulligan's troops surrendered.
After The Partridge Family, she made several TV movies and made many guest apprences in TV shows like Mulligan's Stew in 1977, she played the niece of the stars, Lawrence Pressman and Elinor Donahue.
One, Johnny Mandel's, contained the film score ; the other, Gerry Mulligan's, included numerous Mandel-written themes.
He immediately accepted Mulligan's offer to play for the Blues for $ 7, 500, plus a $ 500 bonus.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligan's quartet from 1954 to 1957.
George Mulligan's career as an engineer necessitated frequent moves through numerous cities.
With the demands of a large home and four young boys to raise, Mulligan's mother hired an African-American nanny named Lily Rose, who became especially fond of the youngest Mulligan.
Warrington was impressed and began buying Mulligan's arrangements.
His compositions " Walking Shoes " and " Young Blood " stand out as embodiments of the contrapuntal style that became Mulligan's signature.
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