Gerry Mulligan
Tenor Sax Solo on
Too Close for Comfort

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Gerry Mulligan follows Stan Getz with two choruses on tenor sax, completing the solo section. Taken at a medium-up swing tempo of 148 BPM over the 40-bar AABAB in E♭, the improvisation unfolds with comfortable, easygoing swing. Mulligan follows with two equally substantial choruses on tenor, bringing his characteristically witty melodic sense to the higher horn. Recorded for the album Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi in 1957, the performance captures Gerry Mulligan at 29 to 30 years old. "Too Close for Comfort" features both saxophonists on their swapped instruments on the 1957 Verve album Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi, with Stan Getz taking the first two-chorus solo on baritone saxophone over the 40-bar AABAB form at 152 beats per minute in E-flat major.

Gerry Mulligan was 29 to 30 years old at the time.