Recordings
February, 1961
"Genius" has become a two-bit word in the lexicon of the liner-note literati; it is tossed with wild abandon and equal fervor at Wanda Landowska and Lawrence Welk. We have no quarrel with the approbation, however, when it's applied to Gerry Mulligan, the poet laureate of the, baritone sax. The Genius of Gerry Mulligan (Pacific Jazz) is a meaningful chronicle of the years (1952-1957) of Mulligan's ascendancy to the ranks of the jazz greats. It includes a number of previously unreleased...
