Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan: Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP ETJS-14 Bill Evans’ first trio album

Bill Evans’ first trio album for Verve

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There may not be a more apropos album title in all of recorded music than tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec’s 1961 classic Heavy Soul

Mood Indigo

And on a handful of standards including Herbie Hancock’s “Dolphin Dance” and a stripped back reading of Oliver Nelson’s “Stolen Moments” he gets right to the heart of the tune

Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan: Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP ETJS-14 Bill Evans’ first trio albumBlue Note, 1957 Three giants of West Coast Jazz came together in this deeply swinging session recorded for the Pacific Jazz World Pacific label in 1953. Alto saxophone master Lee Konitz joins with the great Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone and legendary trumpeter Chet Baker on a half live, half studio program of standards along with one Mulligan original. The group is supported by bassists Carson Smith and Joe Mondragon with Larry Bunker on drums