Gerry Mulligan Chet Baker - The Best of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker (1 tracks) +Album Reviews +Used CD available for Swap
Paul Dana | 12/16/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) ". . . this is THE one. Frankly, it's hard to imagine a partnership of two individuals less likely to succeed: Mulligan, New York-raised, formally trained, tall, fair-haired, his theoretician's instincts already refined by years in several influential late-40s big bands and a successful collaboration with Gil Evans/Miles Davis; Baker, on the other hand, a man who would come to be termed "jazz's 'dark angel," southwest-born and bred, largely self-taught and instinctive in his approach to music, a "problem child" virtually from birth.The traits they ...