Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour

Released

1962

Recorded

October 1 and November 4 & 14, 1960
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, West Berlin, West Germany and Teatro Lirico, Milan, Italy

Genre

Jazz

Length

40:39

Label

Verve V/V6 8438

Gerry Mulligan chronology

The Concert Jazz Band
(1960)

Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour
(1962)

Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard
(1960)

Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (subtitled Guest Soloist: Zoot Sims) is a live album recorded by American jazz saxophonist and bandleader Gerry Mulligan featuring performances recorded in California, Berlin and Milan 1960 which were released on the Verve label. In the CD era it has been superseded by The Complete Santa Monica Concert ^[1]^[2]^[3]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars calling it a "highly recommended album" and stating "Tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, who had previously toured with Mulligan's sextet and always swings effortlessly, is featured as a special guest on several of the selections".^[4]

Track listing

"Go Home" (Ben Webster) - 7:27
"Barbara's Theme" (Johnny Mandel) - 5:17
"I Want to Live" (Mandel) - 6:57
"Red Door" (Zoot Sims, Gerry Mulligan) - 5:32
"Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:41
"Apple Core" (Mulligan) - 5:05
"Go Home" (Webster) - 5:40

Recorded at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA on October 1, 1960 (tracks 4, 5 & 7), West Berlin in West Germany on November 4, 1960 (track 3) and the Teatro Lirico in Milan, Italy on November 14, 1960 (tracks 1, 2 & 6)

Personnel

Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone
Conte Candoli, Don Ferrara, Nick Travis - trumpet
Willie Dennis - trombone
Alan Raph - bass trombone
Bob Brookmeyer - valve trombone, piano track 4
Bob Donovan - alto saxophone
Gene Quill - alto saxophone, clarinet
Jim Reider, Zoot Sims (full feature on tracks 5 and 6) - tenor saxophone
Gene Allen - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Buddy Clark - bass
Mel Lewis - drums
Bill Holman (tracks 1, 6 & 7), Johnny Mandel (tracks 2 & 3), Gerry Mulligan (track 5) - arranger

References

^ Verve Records Catalog: 8400 series accessed February 26, 2016
^ Discography of the Verve, Clef and Norgran labels accessed February 26, 2016
^ Gerry Mulligan Discography Archived April 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine accessed February 29, 2016
^ ^a ^b Dryden, Ken. The Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band on Tour – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

v t e Gerry Mulligan
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release. Some of the titles have been shortened.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1953) Paris Concert (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1954) California Concerts (1954) Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955) Mainstream of Jazz (1956) At Storyville (1956) The Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Bob Brookmeyer at Newport (split album, 1957) Jazz Giants '58 (with Harry Edison, Stan Getz, 1958) Mulligan Meets Monk (with Thelonious Monk, 1957) Blues in Time (with Paul Desmond, 1957) Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz Jazz Concerto Grosso (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1957) The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957) Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan! (1957–58) What Is There to Say? (1958–59) Meets Johnny Hodges (1959) Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (1959) The Concert Jazz Band (1960) The Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960) The Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard (1960) Holliday with Mulligan (with Judy Holliday, 1961) Presents a Concert in Jazz (1961) The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1962) Jeru (1962) Two of a Mind (with Paul Desmond, 1962) Spring Is Sprung (1962) Gerry Mulligan '63 (1962) Night Lights (1963) Butterfly with Hiccups (1963–64) If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! (1965) Feelin' Good (1965) Something Borrowed - Something Blue (1966) Summit (with Astor Piazzolla, 1974) Walk on the Water (1980)
With Chet Baker	Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 1 (1952) Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 2 (1953) Gene Norman Presents the Original Gerry Mulligan Tentet and Quartet (1953) Reunion (1957) Carnegie Hall Concert (1974)
With Dave Brubeck	Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970) The Last Set at Newport (1971) We're All Together Again for the First Time (1972)
With others	Birth of the Cool (Miles Davis, 1949–50) 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe (Barry Manilow, 1984) Pelé (Sérgio Mendes & Pelé, 1977) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972) The Classic Concert Live (with Mel Tormé & George Shearing, 1982)
Soundtracks	The Sound of Jazz (1957) I Want to Live! (1958) The Subterraneans (1960) The Hot Rock (Quincy Jones, 1971)

Bob Brookmeyer

Albums

Bob Brookmeyer Quartet (1954)
Bob Brookmeyer Plays Bob Brookmeyer and Some Others (1955)
The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer (1954–55)
Brookmeyer (1956)
Jimmy Raney featuring Bob Brookmeyer (1956)
Tonite's Music Today (and Zoot Sims, 1956)
Whooeeee (and Zoot Sims, 1956)
The Street Swingers (and Jim Hall, Jimmy Raney, 1957)
Traditionalism Revisited (1957)
Kansas City Revisited (1958)
Stretching Out (1958)
Portrait of the Artist (1959)
The Ivory Hunters (and Bill Evans, 1959)
Jazz Is a Kick (1960)
The Blues Hot and Cold (1960)
7 x Wilder (1961)
Trombone Jazz Samba (1962)
Samba Para Dos (and Lalo Schifrin, 1963)
Back Again (1978)
New Works Celebration (New Art Orchestra, 1997)
Island (2002)

Co-led
and with Clark
Terry

Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments (Brookmeyer, 1961)
Tonight (1964)
The Power of Positive Swinging (1965)
Gingerbread Men (1966)
Tijuana Jazz (Gary McFarland and Clark Terry, 1965)

v t e Zoot Sims
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader	The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52) Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956) Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Zoot! (1956) Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957) Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959) Down Home (1960) Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964) Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965) Waiting Game (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967) Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974) Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975) If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy rowles, 1977) Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
Recordings with Al Cohn	From A to...Z (1956) The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956) Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957) Al and Zoot (1957) Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959) SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959) Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960) You 'n' Me (1960) Either Way (1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962) Body and Soul (1973) Motoring Along (1974)
With Quincy Jones	This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956) The Birth of a Band! (1959) Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962) Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)
With Gerry Mulligan	California Concerts (1954) Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955) Mainstream of Jazz (1956) The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957) The Concert Jazz Band (1960) Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
With others	Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968) Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956) Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973) Louis Bellson Quintet (1954) The Genius of Ray Charles (1959) Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961) Chris Connor (1956) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960) Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962) The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959) South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967) The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956) Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975) Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966) Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959) Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973) Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962) Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966) The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966) Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967) All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962) Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974) Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954) Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963) Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952) Phoebe Snow (1974) Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965) Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958) The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)

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