Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan was born in New York City, New York, United States on April 6th, 1927 and is the Saxophonist. At the age of 68, Gerry Mulligan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.
Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a significant arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others.
Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz groups.
Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments.
Several of his compositions, such as "Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become jazz standards.
Awards
- 1981 Grammy Award (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band) for Walk on the Water
- Grammy nominations for the albums The Age of Steam, For an Unfinished Woman and Soft Lights and Sweet Music
- 1982 The Birth of the Cool album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
- 1982 Connecticut Arts Award
- 1984 Viotti Prize (Vercelli, Italy)
- 1984 inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame
- 1988 Duke Ellington Fellow at Yale University
- 1989 received keys to the city of Trieste, Italy
- 1990 Philadelphia Music Foundation Hall of Fame
- 1991 American Jazz Hall of Fame
- 1992 Lionel Hampton School of Music Hall of Fame
- 1992 Guest composer at the Mertens Contemporary American Composer's Festival, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut
- 1994 Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
- 1995 Artists Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors for the Performing Arts
- 42 consecutive years (1953–1995) winning the Down Beat magazine reader's poll for outstanding baritone saxophonist
