When Brubeck signed with Fantasy Records, he thought he had a half interest in the company and he worked as a sort of A & R man for it, encouraging the Weiss brothers to sign other contemporary jazz performers, including Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Red Norvo.

In addition to his work with Brubeck he led several of his own groups and did significant collaborations with artists such as Gerry Mulligan, Jim Hall and Chet Baker.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

Educated at the Berklee College of Music, Scofield eventually left school to record with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan.

# " Soft variants of bebop ", including the Miles Davis recordings that constitute Birth of the Cool ; the complete works of the Modern Jazz Quartet ; the output of Gerry Mulligan, especially his work with Chet Baker and Bob Brookmeyer ; the music of Stan Kenton's sidemen during the late 1940s through the 1950s ; and the works of George Shearing and Stan Getz.

Gerry Mulligan, with Chet Baker, formed a pianoless quartet that was both innovative and successful.

During the Monday night jam sessions, a young trumpeter named Chet Baker began sitting in with Mulligan.

Faced with a dilemma of what to do for a rhythm section, Mulligan decided to build on earlier experiments and perform as a pianoless quartet with Baker on trumpet, Bob Whitlock on bass and Chico Hamilton on drums ( later Mulligan himself would occasionally double on piano ).

Despite their very different backgrounds, Mulligan a classically-trained New Yorker and Baker from Oklahoma and a much more instinctive player, they had an almost psychic rapport and Mulligan later remarked that, " I had never experienced anything like that before and not really since.

" Their dates at the Haig became sell-outs and the recordings they made in the fall of 1952 became major sellers that led to significant acclaim for Mulligan and Baker.

Both Mulligan and Baker had, like their peers, become heroin addicts.

However, while Mulligan was in prison, Baker transformed his lyrical trumpet style, gentle tenor voice and matinee-idol looks into independent stardom.

Thus when upon his release Mulligan attempted to rehire Baker, the trumpeter declined the offer for financial reasons.

Mulligan continued the quartet format with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer replacing Baker, although Mulligan and Brookmeyer both occasionally played piano.

* 1953: Konitz Meets Mulligan ( with Chet Baker

* 1953: Konitz Meets Mulligan ( With Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker ) ( Pacific )

Working with musicians from Chet Baker to Gerry Mulligan, and from Billie Holiday to Lee Konitz, and in modern jazz quartet or quintet, with musicians such as Tullio De Piscopo, Pino Presti, Gianluigi Trovesi, Flavio Ambrosetti and Jean-Luc Ponty, he became a leader in the Italian and European jazz world.

* 102 The Complete Pacific Jazz and Capitol Recordings of the Original Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Tentette with Chet Baker ( 3 CDs or 5 LPs )

Musicians including Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, George Benson, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Nina Simone, Paul Desmond, Art Farmer, Herbie Hancock, and Ron Carter are just a few of the many successful jazz artists who recorded on CTI during the 1970s.

* Foreign talent: Bill Robinson, Verne Gagne, André the Giant, George Gordienko, Karl Gotch, Lou Thesz, Danny Hodge, Don Leo Jonathan, Bill Miller, Dick the Bruiser, Crusher Lisowski, Mad Dog Vachon, Nick Bockwinkel, Ray Stevens, Baron Von Raschke, Horst Hofmann, Édouard Carpentier, Peter Maivia, Ivan Koloff, Larry Hennig, Blackjack Lanza, Blackjack Mulligan, " Superstar " Billy Graham, Wahoo McDaniel, Red Bastien, Minnesota Wrecking Crew, Bill Watts, Dusty Rhodes, Dick Murdoch, Ox Baker, Wild Angus, Killer Tor Kamata, Gypsy Joe, Alexis Smirnoff, Mongolian Stomper, Killer Brooks, Jos LeDuc, Sailor White, Big John Quinn, Kurt Von Hess, Professor Tanaka, Dean Ho, Wild Samoans, Jake Roberts, Big Daddy Ritter, David Schultz, Dynamite Kid, Mike George, Bob Sweetan, Johnny Powers, Killer Karl Krupp, Ron Bass, Ray Candy, Paul Ellering, Steve Olsonoski

On September 12, 1861, between 6, 000 and 10, 000 soldiers of the Missouri State Guard, led by Major General Sterling Price, began a siege against the Federal military post in the old Masonic College commanded by Colonel James A. Mulligan.

The Blues began as the Waterbury Blues and were owned by George Mulligan, the leading sports promoter in Connecticut during the 1920s.

After attending Columbia University, Mulligan began working in theatre, making his debut as a stage manager and performer on Broadway in All the Way Home in 1960.

As he became older, Mulligan began spending time at Rose's house and was especially amused by Rose's player piano, which Mulligan later recalled as having rolls by numerous players, including Fats Waller.

While in Reading, Mulligan began studying clarinet with dance-band musician Sammy Correnti, who also encouraged Mulligan's interest in arranging.

Mulligan also began playing saxophone professionally in dance bands in Philadelphia, an hour and a half or so away.

Mulligan went back to Philadelphia and began writing for Elliot Lawrence, a pianist and composer who had taken over for Warrington as the band leader at WCAU.

Mulligan next began arranging for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, occasionally sitting in as a member of the reed section.

Mulligan eventually began living with Evans, at the time that Evans ' apartment on West 55th Street became a regular hangout for a number of jazz musicians working on creating a new jazz idiom.

While arranging for Kenton, Mulligan began performing on off-nights at The Haig, a small jazz club on Wilshire Boulevard at Kenmore Street.

After Dave Brubeck's quartet broke up in 1967, Mulligan began appearing regularly with Brubeck as the " Gerry Mulligan / Dave Brubeck Quartet " through 1973.

The members loved it and soon began giving themselves " Mulligans " in honor of John " Buddy " Mulligan.

The charts of such arrangers as Shorty Rogers, Gene Roland, Gerry Mulligan, Marty Paich, Johnny Richards, and particularly Bill Holman and Bill Russo began to dominate the repertoire.

When recording began for the band's second album, 1965's The Beau Brummels, Volume 2, Mulligan was no longer a member of the group.

When Mulligan left the group in late 1981, Leather Charm disbanded and Hetfield began working with drummer Lars Ulrich on a new project, Metallica.

" He dated English actress and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps co-star Carey Mulligan from August 2009 to October 2010 ; they were introduced by the film's director, Oliver Stone, prior to filming and began dating shortly after.

Employed by the CBS network, Mulligan began his television career at the bottom of the ladder as a messenger boy.

Mulligan began the 1970s with The Pursuit of Happiness ( 1971 ), based on the 1968 novel by Thomas Rogers, which had been a finalist for the National Book Award.

Bobby " The Brain " Heenan, a professional wrestling manager debuted in American Wrestling Association ( AWA ) in 1969, where he began managing teams like The Blackjacks ( Lanza and Mulligan ), the team of Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens, and Bobby Duncum, Sr. forming the first version of Heenan Family.

Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan at the " Summit " recording, Milan, Italy 1974 .</ br > Photograph by Pino Presti Piazzolla, after leaving Troilo's orchestra in the 1940s, led numerous ensembles beginning with the 1946 Orchestra, the 1955 Octeto Buenos Aires, the 1960 " First Quintet ", the 1971 Conjunto 9 (" Noneto "), the 1978 " Second Quintet " and the 1989 New Tango Sextet.

While in Milan for the recording sessions, Mulligan met his future wife, Countess Franca Rota Borghini Baldovinetti, a freelance photojournalist and reporter.

In 1987, Mulligan adapted K-4 Pacific ( from his 1971 Age of Steam big band recording ) for quartet with orchestra and performed it beside Entente with the Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv with Zubin Mehta conducting.

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.

However, Davis died from a stroke in September and Mulligan continued the recording project and tour with Wallace Roney and Art Farmer subbing for Davis.

* 1970: Live at the Berlin Philharmonie ( with the Dave Brubeck Trio )). Gerry Mulligan and Astor Piazzolla at the Summit recording .</ br > Photo by Pino Presti

The recording does not include all of the performers on the TV show ( Mulligan refused to participate because no additional payment was involved ) and includes several who were not on the show.